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Show I(; W Katrbad? 1 i ' ' ; t Humor Is Again Current That Gould Interests Own N New Line, i ROCK ISLAND MAY BE i, INTERESTED IN PROJECT V All Doubt Dispelled That tho 1 1 Road Will Enter Salt ji Lake. I ' Tho report is now current that D. H. ? Uoffat of Denver has raised sufficient J; i funds to comploto tho Denver, North--western & Pacific (the Moffat. I?oad) hi to Salt Lake. Tho deal with a supposed Jij English 'syndicate Is declared off and il the money has been secured from largo ,t- Capitalists in the United States. This roport has again raised tho tumor in westorn railroad circles that rJ the Moffat road is a Gould project. A well-known railroad man from Denver Baid to a Tribune representative Satur-" Satur-" Bay: "If tho Moffat road is not a J Gould project it is backed by Rock Island capital and it was in this way the latter lino will find its entrance into , ' palt Lake and thus secure its own choice of outlets to tho Pacific coast." It is more than probablo that ihc y ' Denver, Northwestern & Pacific is the western extension of tho Rock Island. .' All tho other eastern roads are mnk-!V mnk-!V ng progress toward the Pacific coast. k ' The Burlington and Chicago & Northwestern North-western are far west in Wyoming; the ' Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul is well on its way to Seattle, but tho Rock Island, so far as known, has not been ' tnaking now acquisitions of territorj'. ' Hence soma color is given to tho report. re-port. , ' On the other hand, tho Gould people I are bohind their competitors on a line from Denver to Salt Lake. The pros-'ri pros-'ri ent routo via the Rio Grande and over Boldier Summit is not satisfactory. The jl distance is too long and the haul is , j, too heavy. Tho proposal of cutoffs to j !,1 Balina aud other points to climinato 'J the grade of the summit arc all well I and good, say well informed railroad ; . men. but the Moffat road offers an . J admirable solution to the Gould dif- '1 ficulty. The Moffat road is 150 miles '; shorter than the present Rio Grande) ' route. The Uintah railroad, owned by ; I) the Gould interests, may cut somo figure : in tho proposition, and if the Moffat 1 'i road is to find its entrance into the i ,i Salt Lako valley via Provo canyon tho ' ; t Rio Grande road again meets the situa-"' situa-"' : tion, as that line already traverses tho V ; canj'on and adjacent country. The ) Western Pacific connection, thus 'tr, rhortening time, is also an incentive. ; Whichever interest may control the ' now line Gould or Rock Island there - is no doubt that the Moffat road will s pater Salt Lake Citv long before tho close of 1010. . |