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Show HHliN MM BE 1 MAK lillETl Announcement That Rio Grande!! Will Be Improved Causes Much Comment. ft. MAY BE CONNECTED WITH Wt SHAKE-UP OF OFFICIAL&ljl Joint Goiild-Harriman Combina-1 flllf tion Is Only Solution of S A Hi Problem. i ?w The announcement made last Monday! 0 by Vice-President C. H. Schlacks of the jjlgge Denver & Rio Graudo railroad to the Sf effect 'that that road would expend be- . tween $3,000,000 and $5,000,000 on im-- t.' provements shortly has been the cause W of a great deal of comment in local Ini railroad circles. ' t'r The Denver & Rio Grande railroad isS j badly in need of repairs, and tho an- ;T nouiicemont that such a large sum 134 (t to bo expended is welcomed nowhere! ft'' in the country more than in Salt Lalief W City. This announcement, however, to-3 tf" gcther with the recent resignation of A. d C. Kidgway as general manager of th : jlfc-roud. jlfc-roud. and tho minors to tho effect thatviljto President Edward T. Jeff cry was &bontEyj to retire and that, the former would ba:i fr succeeded by rhe present general su- It ' periutoudent of th Union Pacific. L. Park, points to one conclusion. Har-.i jUi V Timau is in on the game and probably"Hon it is his money with which tho roafrfPijiil will be improved. fnp( Harrinaan to the Rescue. -w51? It is understood that Harriraan came A f to tho rescue of Gould in the proposi- J? tion to build the 'Western Pacific at tho r'. i timo of tho financial stringency, and it J5 scems very plausible that ho would S jz now advance money for improving tho-lv Denver & Rio Grande. 1 The rumor that F. A. Delano, presi- t dent of tho "Wabash railroad, is slated ti ft to succeed Mr. Jeff cry as president of the Denver & Rio Grande may also 1 7jj mean n deal more than many b'clieve. It was said some time ago that Gould I'V was willing, because of financial diffi- 1 '! culties, to release his hold on lines $5? cast of St. Louis, known as the "Wabash. P aud the Wheeling & Lake Erio and turn ft them over to Mr. Uarriman in consider- 'M T. a tion of his assistance in financing:? other Gould properties. It is now pret- v ty generally recognized that, the Wa-'i bash is a ILarriman road and that be- f i? ing the case the transfer of Mr. Delano $ from the presidency of the Wabash to 'tf (?? the presidency of the Rio Grande would S be virtually putting a Hnrriman official' at tho top'of t.hc Gould system. f'te The only solution of the problem isj?, that the Gould system will henceforth jK" be operated under a joint. Gonld-Harri- J? ilfy man control. ' ffi -Je |