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Show COLORADO H0AD IH j A GOOD CONDITION, ! SAYS ITS PRESIDENT; NEW TOEK, March 27. Frank; Trumbull, president - of the' Coloradaj Southern eystem, has just returned from Chicago in an optimistio frame of mini over the continued prosperity of the West.- He said: i ' ' There are no. symptoms of a down grade movement, except such as will naturally follow the , curtailment of improvement by railroads, and if this does sot extend too far it may prove salutary in the matter of adjusting labor conditions, money rates, etc. 1 . "If we Jook at our situation in an unruffled way we can count up a nutn-t ber of blessings. For example, no rate wars, no rebates, no retaliatory railroad construction, no apprehension of par-! alysis over thousands of miles of ritory by strikes of railroad employees because the railroad managers offer tq settle upon certain figures or arbitrat-i ing." J Trumbull said the prospects in all territory of the Colorado . Southern lines were never so good. .. . j |