Show Brind Railroad Looking Up At Least a Dispatch From N. N Y So Promoter States Promoter Said to Have Powerful Backing N New w York Feb eb 23 1912 Information was given out here recently to the effe effect t that of f English Eng and American American American Am Am- capital has been subscribed subscribed subscribed sub sub- scribed for the construction of an nn entirely independent railroad rail rail- railroad road from row Salt Snit Lake City to San Fransico and eastward rd from Salt Lake City to connect with the Denver Cr North Northwestern western Pacific known as the Moffat l road at fit S Steamboat Springs Sir Thomas Thom uJ Lipton millionaire millionaire millionaire million million- aire tea merchant and sportsman sportsman sportsman sports sports- man is the principal En English lish capitalist Ht interested in the eu- eu n- n tei prise e. e His Jis American associates associates associates ates are Governor Go William Villiam Spry of Utah tanh Frederick K Brind i ia a n former state engineer of Utah I Rudolph udolph the California millionaire w who h o gained world-wide world fame in his fight against graft in San Francisco Francioco Fran- Fran cisco and ancl other Utah and nd California California California Cali Cali- fornia capitalists v kless interest in the new road is said mid to have h been largely through his desi desire e to bring another competitor competitor competitor com com- into the Southern Pacific's Pacific's Pacific's Pa Pa- rich coast territory So far as fIe can ca 1 be learned the interests financing the the new road are entirely independent of any ny railroad corporation in Ameri Amen ca It is understood however that the new line is to operate through Dev Denver r over the Moffat Moffat fat road Work Vork is to be begun on the road this summer an ani j jit it is to be he completed before the opening of the Panama exposition exposition exposition exposi exposi- tion in iii San Francisco in 1915 It was the enormous passenger ger er business the coast coastin in 1915 that influenced the English En Eu- glish capitalists to embark at once upon tho thu enterprise I It ie ia understood that the in interests interests interests in- in financing the road have obtained control of the Barber Asphalt company's s 's rich asphalt asphalt asphalt as as- and gilsonite holdings in eastern Utah and will begin bein operations on them as soon as as the new road is opened The same interests are also said to I have ha closed a deal for acres of rich coal laud land in Routt and Moffat counties in hi western Colorado which will be he tapped by the new line and which are said to contain hundreds of thousands of tons of the finest non slacking non king coal in the coun coun- try It is is understood that construction construction construction con con- work is to b be begun both ways was out of Salt Lake City and perhaps westward d from Steamboat Springs Sprin s. s It is also under understood tood that arrangements are about completed for boring boring- the mile four-mile tunnel that will carry carrr the Moffat road through the continental divide at a n low lo grade J. J B B. B Maling r of Denver Den has been in New York for some sometime sometime sometime time negotiating in behalf o othe of the own owners rs of the Moffat l rone road for funds to extend the road l westward and to build the big biz tunnel William G. G Evans E o of Denver president of the Moffat road rondo hn has been in New York and oth other r eastern cities for some weeks looking alter after the affairs of the road It is tini understood tin un- however th that t the i plans of the new company are art w entirely independent of the extension ex ex- extension tension of the Moffat road and I that an arrangement ement has been made by br which the rone road rond rondi H IB i is to be purchased or to join in close dose traffic arrangements with wit the new line The The Tribune H |