Show Illinois Senator Is Railroad Magnate I I l r ar QapSVERtrp rMen ftJDQING from many reports of new tl business ventures on tho part of the new Junior senator from Illinois which are floating Into Washington be Is soon to be known as Wealthy William Lorimer Instead In-stead of plain Mister and Senator Sen-ator Besides continuing at the head of a successful brick manufacturing manufactur-ing company and one or two other concerns in Chicago Mr Lorimer soon Is to participate In a steamboat business busi-ness on tho Mississippi and to help operate a railroad In Colorado His membership in a concern which Isto operate steamboats of light draft between St Paul and St Louis and furnish wheat cargoes to ships at New Orleans connecting with the leadIng lead-Ing rail line was announced recently News now has come from Colorado that the San Luis Valley Southern Railway Company has been projected with Senator Lorimer of Illinois and Congressman Weeks of Massachusetts prominent among Its Incorporators Connected with the project Is a scheme to exploit what Is known as the Costllla land grant The Costllla State Development Company tho Cos tllla Power Company and the Costilla Irrigation Company all have been launched with the railroad and Senator Sena-tor LorImer and Congressman Weeks have shares In each The president of the now railway company happens to be Franklin E Brooks who a few years ago ubly represented rep-resented the state of Colorado at Washington as represenitlre at large Therein lies the story of how Messrs Lorlmer and Weeks were allowed to participate In the good thing out In Colorado Tho most Important house committee on which Mr Brooks served while In congress was tho committee com-mittee on agriculture Mr Lorimer and Mr Weeks were fellow members They sat side by side In many Important Im-portant meetings of the committee during the packing house Inquiry and the discussion of the pure food bill Naturally they all became fast friends and accordingly when Mr Brooks returned re-turned to private life and visited the east In search of capital for his now projects he sought them out and won their approval and financial support Thus it was through his membership member-ship on tho committee on arrlculturo that Mr Lorimer has been afforded the opportunity of becoming a railway rail-way magnate |