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Show ILROADS DIFFER ! OVEII COIL MIES! ithentic Information Giv-j n as to Controversy Be- j tween Colorado Lines. j , j XJUSTMENT IS HOPED j esent Contract, However, j Vill Be Held in Effect j Until May 1, 1916. I 'he first authentic in format ion re- ! o in ir the different;, lietweu the Col-' Cio i Southern railroad ;uil the Colo-I o Midland railway that has reached' al repioentative of the company! ie yesterday in a letter to -I. H. I vis. general agent of ri.e Colorado' Hand. The letrer va- from C. II. i .ers of Denver, general passe n per , nt of the eompany. and was written ; protest against an article which ap- j red in a Salt Lake paper lat Sun- ; and was copied hv a Grand June- n paper. The letter, in part, fol-! In so far as the Colorado Midland ailroad is concerned the article is ery misleading, and not in ac-ordance ac-ordance with the actual situation. The Colorado k Southern rail-oad rail-oad aud the ('oloradn Midland rail-vay rail-vay company have bad a dispute as o certain coal rates and the divisions di-visions thereof. To secure ao ad-ustrnenf ad-ustrnenf of those differencps the -dorado & Southern Railroad ompany thought it best to notify his con: pany of i ts desire to ca n- el the contract between the two ompanies, such contract namiiiir pacifically the percentage that vould be used in division of all Joint' rate? bet-ween the two companies. com-panies. mtract Still Holds. Vnder the contract the expiration loticp does not become effei-tive null nu-ll aftpr six months from date of 'bp nnti.-e. This will be May 1 . j t is the intention of the j wo companies to consider thp question of divisions prior to that iate. and no doubt an amicable ad-;ii-tment will be reached. The heading of the article would ndicat that the P. & R. G. rail-oa rail-oa d had also taken some action, vt the only two companies inter-jppd inter-jppd are the Colorado Midland and hf oloradn Sc Southern. f t n-curred to us that if we "ould give these fact? to the' erring jult Lake paper it would desire to iibli-h a correction of thp article, o that its readers would be jriven 'h facts in the ca. T ii t what caused th dispute in to rl to coal rates was not made known, iwever. during the past year the ' oln io .Midland has bpn putting forth 1 I every effort to develop the coal prop ertios alonu' its lines. Heretofore the mines alone the Midland hae not been able to compete in iVnvcr and middle-western middle-western cities with the mines of southern south-ern C olorado - on account of excessive freight rates. To encourage the business busi-ness lower rat ps were made on coal by the Golorado Midland and, inasmuch as the contract specified what proportion the "oloradn & Southern should receive, the revenue of thar road was decreased, on cnal from Colorado M id land points A ccordi ng to all i n forma tion oi .-tain-able, the I'p'Iu'tii.ui in cual rates i- the bone of contention, an-1 in order to forcp the Colorado Midland tn change the rate or give thp Colorado tv Southern a creater t ' cent of the rrvninn from j thp .-oal traffic it was neTs-ary f abrogate abro-gate the pxisting cont ra--t. |