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Show Coal' fields and other natural resources of Routt and Grand counties- DENIES ANY ' MERGER JVloffat Says No Consolidation With Gould's Lines. David H. Moffat was n happy cjati today- He talked about bis railroad and the tunnel, which is designed to revolutionize revolu-tionize the railroad business in the West, and his pictures of the future of Denver were inspiring. He has the affair in a shape that he says justifies justi-fies him in making the definite announcement that the great bQre which will extend through the mountain range and connect con-nect the Pacific slope with the Atlantic, will srjoo, be made. Just when work will begin depends de-pends on a few details whicji are yet unsettled. It is Mr. Moffat's own enterprise, enter-prise, and when it is completed complet-ed his interest will control, justvas it does the railroad he has-built" into Routt county, and is being extended toward Salt Lake City. There are features of this promotion which have aroused the financial world. The completion com-pletion of the tunnel will injure in-jure for transcontinental business busi-ness that portion of the Denver & Rio Grande system lying west of Pueblo, and will make a cut of twelve hours in the time across the continent for the service that now involves the Burlington from Chicago to Denver. Naturally, the officials of these other lines scoff at the idea of a new one that , will absorb their business, but Mr. Moffat is as confident as he ever was in his life, and he has used pretty good judgment judg-ment with good success for many years. ' "The Rio Grande interests are not in this deal", he said, with 6ome emphasis "They have not been consulted, and as far as I know never will be. The suggestion that a cutoff he built from Dotsero to mv road to allow Rio Grande trains to pass over my tracks is no my own and has not been considered." If was suggested that a good solution of the financial difficulties diffi-culties that have confronted him in the enterprise would be in having the Rio Grande interests build the tunnel and J let him pay for it in; trackage, but Mr. Moffat declared that he was going to do it himself. "I am not ready to state," said he, "just where the support sup-port comes from, but I have 't in shape so that we are toing ahead." The Moffat line officials have gauged their work upon the basis of the completion of the funnel and already are ex-Pending ex-Pending considerable sums on improvements along the line ith the idea of its shortening. iThey are putting iu a roundhouse round-house at Fraser, which is eleven- miles down the valley ! on the other. side from Arro, hich has hitherto been the accepted stopping place for Prists and others who only Wanted the trip over the fountains. When the tunnel ' completed and trains run-ninz, run-ninz, the line over the great divide will be operated ' in Jmer for sightseers while thc one beneath takes care of . enormous tonnage that 'u now is coming from the i |