Show RAILROAD RUMORS HARRIMAN SAID TO CONTROL MOFFAT ROAD will be built on through to salt lake city no matur matter who owns the Cont controlling roling interest A new rumor has arisen in the east regarding the moffat road the latest being to the effect that the new road will become but n link ink in what hat will be tho the shortest trana continental line arid and will ultimately be absorbed into the great harriman system in fact it stands to reason that as aa important a short line as the moffat road troad vw mill be when completed can not long remain independent the following dispatch from new york gives the present status of affairs as aa the financial world sees it new aorl jan lac 17 B 11 haniman IJar has made another of his napoleonic moves on the railroad chessboard and he promises to again score heavily against ins his most formidable anal george gould it was A as announced a few days 1 ago go th that a t the chicago and northwest North northwestern wes ter would issue of new stock and that the money realized reali sed from the sale of this paper would be used to pay for extensions and betterments this announcement wets followed by the statement that would be placed upon the market marke tat at once the street at once scented big game but the facts ero slow alow in leaking out I 1 it now develops dev flops that the stock issue is mr Hard hardmann mans first move in a battle that pi to become memorable in railroad history colorado is the battle ground ejected by the great general of wall street and two colorado m men en D H moffat tand and W G evans are among the chief I 1 ou tenants harriman has determined to drive the chicago and northwestern through the denver gateway to the pacific and to that end he hns ento red into an alliance with Aluf fat fr evans augustus heinze and sam newhouse arid and by doing go BO he be has thrown down the gage of battle to george gould and the powerful smelter trust the chicago and northwestern will be extended f from rom omaha to denver and from that point the harriman trains traina will run over the moffat roid to salt lake from salt lake to t tl e pacific coast the southern P pacific cefic tracks may be used although altho uyi the plans of the combination call for the construction of a new and sh eh arter line from the mormon to sin francisco gould is drivas his western to the coast ind if is to remain supreme he mut hive a shorter route the mr 1 flat roal real aves baves I 1 im more than filed beaw en denver ar ard d salt halt lake but he loei loe this advantage by being compeller com in 0 o depend on the southern pacific to frisco ile hence nee the determination mi to put the i oad load through to the pacific harr man I 1 HR a realy al already secured possession of the 04 kland interurban system and will use it ai his hia coast terminal evan q and moffat have been here tor for some weeks endeavoring to fl fi nance their road tins this is not tho the first journey of th that atkind kind t at they have made to this thia city tut but tl ey have never been able to proun ounce the open sesame that wo ild almia them to the inner circle of the financial world there is no doubt however that they have finally made a deal with harriman mr moffat at will remain at the head of his road until it is completed but of course the control will be in the hands of Har harrigar rimar and finally the road will be merged with the rest reet of the harriman system denver and colorado will not suffer by this deal however it insures the construction of the moffat road to salt lake and eventually iti it means that colorados capital v ill be on the shortest transcontinental railroad denver danver has long been on a side aide track so far as through busin business is concerned but that N will ill all be changed now |