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Show mm of hp Traffic Will .Likely Begin ,j (fllOfP Sew RoimI About October 1 JIIlL" 1 " fit WILL BE OPENED IP"1 TO WELLS, NEVADa v ' . fi.C'B,t ; Traffic Arrangement With vada Northern; Gould Road f Will Not Go to Ely. ! While a traffic agreement between th Western Pacific and the Nevada North ern has not yet been finally oonrluduu a long step toward that end has been taliea' ncnfi and It will be consummated In the nJ AW future. The Western Pacific, thereto - for S" will not build Into Ely. That In a actlSfl- 1 fact. And the Gould line will be openJH' both for freight and passenger traffic, m far as Wells, Nov., about the 1st of OcW-tober OcW-tober this year. al. These facts developed after a mceUBKf"' of Rio Grande officials in the offices InjHBi CO' Kallroad Exchange building ThursSjflEI afternoon. The meutlng waa attended wHiL C. II. Schlacks, vice-president; jJIKnd'i Hughes, traffic manager; S. V, DerriHfEtS - general superintendent; 12. Stonger aajmS other?. .Mr. Scnlacks arrived from Den'MSf3 " ver Thursday morning, while tho othotMi' returned from Ely, wiienco they went ontW hul .. Tuesday with s, C. Eccles. i)r. IIuehM 15 and Mr. Schlaeks loft tor Denver at a-Sm ...a. Thursday afternoon. '1mrrr General Outline of Plan. Miirectoi The conference of the officials nsuiM , ; over nn hour and Immediately- it conclud-lV ed Mr. Schlaeks and Mr. Hughes hurrltdXfei s fUI to the depot, boarded their special cars-j Wi and left for Denver. But It was learned , that the affairs of th Western PaclflGfcrtl I'i were discussed, although the road Is att)fm' 5 In the constructive porlnd. The plan u10 " it is generally outlined Is that the GouMmirrK"v( road will connect with the Nevada N'orlh-fm jirm crn nt Shafter. 1C0 miles west of Salt-tfP j Lake. Ely Is 130 miles distant and (raffle 7mtt p1 i will be brought over tho Northern. But 1 Iu ri I the opening of a railroad Is not the work of a day. Tariff schedules and passenger ' yWt3 rates . havo to be prepared, tickets and ' j,.U'pi stationery printed, station agents chosen, i 01U'-and 01U'-and after the tariffs are prepared they iki'M18 have to be published for thirty days be2 J; iw fore they can be effective, this in accord "Svc dance with the Hepburn act. So thnt lJr much preliminary work has to be per-' tnm 0 formed before tho road can commenced feC.fi-business. feC.fi-business. The executive officers of the-, tktfisl road have not yet been chosen. Thl UHint'iw will be done in the near future and It i Is highly probable thnt tho heads of th W " 1 Rio Grande d"oartents. both here an man! ln Denver, will occupy similar posltlloa (tfjjftune with both the roads. J liilMdfiOt Work on N"ow Depot. ? stKd3 Tt is expected that the tunnel on thu ikf) Western Pacific, between Shafter anfl iwW Wells. Nev., which is nearly a mile Ion?" fyijkisi will be completed In some sixty or ninety aS I days, thus opening the way to the lattei l Kcrsln Pl Before Mr. Schlaeks left Zion he staH e 05 in an Interview that the Rio Grandi mum , Wostern still has control of tne Sanoetf III tie vallev line. AW the subsidiary llnw km is it owned In- the TClo Grand" In this terrl VtLPr tory will be consolidated at the mcetlni ,JU4srt of ihe .sto',1'viol'1ers tn b" held in Dcnv Ik&ecto July 23. He also na''! thnt while woitf IJjie Cit -n the new leno is slow at present, thfi iftem dlffinultv being rhP sec'urinrr of a sollip. , .. :" foundation. It will be hunt lust as sooJMleL as men and money can do it. mlli. Joi . .Mm Mil ir |