Show new york and denver papers say sav basin route wanted by coy B big 19 railroads railroad 1 KLI I 1 kor IIA V gall T HAIL 81 att 1108 11 BRIGHT mit U STUBS after careful intimation thip new now york arnorld orld and the rocky mountain newe news 11 recently a detailed report ot of a plan for the ot of five creat great rall roada da into one trunk line to the I 1 coast the keystone ke in thia this plan ie Is the moffat roid and the extension eite nalon ot of thia this line from craig to provo utah the acte facts Is ascertained certa ined are as follow follows one of the most important rail in american trani por tation history involving the linking ot of the gestern railroad with the burlington estem system through the moral morlat tunnel and denver may be the outgrowth of 0 the latest plan ot of commodore arthur curtis jamea james of 0 new york the largest individual rail stockholder la the world who recently added control of the western pacific to bis his holding in other major western arll arlt roada roads that this noih ne which may draw into one giant system five leading american railroads ie Is bre brew w ing Is a almost the universal belief of 0 wall treet and NN western estern railroad men the purchase by commodore james of the gestern Ne ea tern stern pacific Is 1 seen by the nation a fl fI center as another step toward the potential it uch such i plan were to be carried thru it involve construction of the craig extension to the macat roid ro id from its it present western terminus at craig to provo or salt lake city completing the final link necee wary to aiace 11 denver nver fir tr the first time on a through railroad route commodore janei was entrenched in hie his position as the he controlling figure in the western railroad arll by hie his purchase ot of the western pa chic control previously he was aas one of it principal of the no them and the great northern railroads and through their them of the colorado and southern and burlington system systems the stock of the burlington the he key to the james rall roid Is divided into three parta parts commodore jamea james holding the email small deciding block with the rest split between the great northern rn and northern Tor thern pacific system of which he Is one of the principal clutters ills III ext acq aca littlon the aest wt ern aleo also rivee gives him hint an indi ot of one halt half the lock toek ol 01 ibbe the denver atil and illo RIO grande NN estern aten which Is owned jointly by the NN ti elern estern and the Miji ourt pa ra beille railroads rall the of consolidation of the janke jams systems overshadows adow any railroad mergers consummated tor yr years past it grouped under a synchronized al a ministration ahm hoh ith the Inden eident roade roads not lor lose their the eye sye tern tam belt th tl batern united state with the greatest Rree teet ingle single sy gyo tem in history connection of the Aken tern 1 pacific and anil burlington rouie by way of the moffit moffat aten would open an on entirely ww now route rout r blaay between the othe two maj or r western roada rods the 1 e on the eolith south an ant t ibe union pacific on the north ta he group rade up of the burlington colo ado and southern Csor LNor thern pacific and great northern already are oe operating rating un der uch such a plan linking chicago with the northern pacific coast and denver the burlington route c connect 0 chicago with denver deaver bat but still has no route to the coast the western pacific connect connects san fran blaco and salt lake city with no pastern eastern outlet eave save the denver andi and aitto orande grande NN western estern or ita its compel ing hoe line the union pacific 1 construction of the craig extension 1 0 n for the moffat road and inclusion 1 on of this system in the future lilan wan would give the burlington its outlet to the epst and the western pacific ita its opening to the east it the craig extension ext enston is not built the ame purpose could be hed although leea less efficient ly through of the dot sero cutoff linking the moffat system and the rio 1 grande western of the moffat tunnel Il western pacific officials before commodore james took over control 11 ind it their eyes on the moffat tunnel which will mill be completed next usra mer iner acquisition of the system by Com james with his burl I 1 inavon 11 ton affiliation affiliations makes the bore and the reorganized moffat road even more important to future western plans advantages of linking the western pacific with the burlington system through the moffat road would be increased by the naw now territory opened up in western colorado and eastern utah in addition to the strategic value of the link in the formation of a new transcontinental estem construction of the craig extension would carry the line thru thra the uintah basin opening up amt farming and mining areas still more important it would adequate meana means of transportation tation for a large scale of development of the routt county and ad jacent coal bleds which produce the only coal in colorado comparable to the anthracite of the east these fields already are under scrutiny by pastern capital and from one aith alth source it has been report el that the japanese government has ha imade made preliminary stepa steps toward in ter teresing etIng itself in the area |