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Show , PEOJECTED lOM DENVER TO GULF I,Prfis. ?'eb. 12. Another stop in ?n of an air-lino railroad vor, Dallas, Tex., and the f'co, was taken yesterday wore closed between of- Denver & Gulf railroad jtjjlorndo Oklahoma- and non ,'l0i!ri,h;tecs ll0tr tho $100,-5 $100,-5 , cas,hr bonds on deposit in tho batiks of Lamar, Colo., for tho construction construc-tion nnd operation of 150 miles of rail-w. rail-w. betwoon Lamar, Colo., and Tex-lioma, Tex-lioma, lex., on or before July J, 1011. Una and contracts now in force in Texas Tex-as will insure tho completion of 350 miles of this system, which it is proposed pro-posed eventually to extend to the Pacific Pa-cific northwest const. Those facts woro confirmed today by iTiuikim A. Lmsted, president and general gen-eral manager of the Denver & Gulf Railroad company. It was further earned that work of extending tho line lroin Lamar into Denver will bo pushed and it is proposed to have the lino com-pJcto com-pJcto and in operation between Denver and Dallas by July, 191H. I By escaping steep mountain grades of the present roads it will give an eusv haul from Denver to tho gulf and ft is proposod to mako tho now line' an integral part of the shortest route be-tweon be-tweon tho Gulf of Mexico ana Pugct Sound. |