Show it ft is I 1 the san francisco chronicle of ili the a ath instant says saya A dispatch which w iyar as published pub yesterday bearing the te data of silt salt laire cawed caged so some a little talk aming railroad men T it recited the he probability of a deal being made isado by which abo southern pacific company would take over ta t e rio grande west wes t ern era and eo co be independent of the union pacific from od en east 0 F crock er was ssan seen about the mattir mattar he said eaid the rho story is neither new nor true trae it has been told with slight variations over and over again the relation of both the central pacific and union pacific to the government in in the matter of their indebtedness are ara uch that any deal of the kind suggested would be b a mutually inconvenient it would lead to complications complication which would be ba very no there is no truth in the story as far na as I 1 know |