Show railway talk the denver news has the following regarding the latest proposition preposition in the way of another railroad to salt lake said a railway man who has recently returned from california 1 I was abot at all surprised on ray my return from t the he coast to hear it rumored that the chicago milwaukee and st paul compa company is behind the proposed sed leavenworth i and g d leuver denver chor short b line while while at oakland I 1 lea learned ed that the milwaukee company had purchased td 1950 acres of water front on the bay and had also dietly quietly secured right of way fr for a distance of f miles from oakland through stanton and lathrop the direction of the route selected is eastward from the coast to salt lake city and as the expressed intention of the people havi having 1 in charge the leavenworth and denver short t line is to construct a line from the former direct to denver and then westward through the to salt lake city it Is s very plausible to suspect the milwaukee with being virtually interested in the ile new enterprise it has been an open secret among railroad men tor for several years vears that the chicago milwaukee land and st paul is anxious to reach the constand coa stand it is only a tion of time until the great company will build and operate a line of its own from the missouri river to san francisco therom the company has an independent line to kansas city and is anxious for western and southwestern business it would be an easy matter to extend alys line on to leavenworth and thence ve stward to denver especially ally in view of the practical certainty of receiving aid from every county along the route again the elest of constructing a road through kansas and colorado along the survey made would be comparatively light as compared with other routes the number of streams to be bridged is small while the level plains over which the roadbed would pass admit of the easiest grades the co country is well settled and the soil the most productive in the world this guarantees a good local traffic in addition to the through gli business the baat statement ement is made that the de denver ver people apropo propose be to tunnel the moun mountains mountain tail is and push the he new line on to salt laire now when these disjointed facts are put together and combined with the recent purchase of water frontage at oakland and the right of way eastward to salt lake city it rounds out a colossal but entirely feasible scheme heme behind which looms up the chicago M milwaukee and st paul railway company striking tor for the pacific coast the burlington santa fe fc missouri pacific and union pacific have all found it essential to build to denver the rock island is on the way and in my humble opinion the chicago milwaukee and st paul is making tor for n adabee preparations for fora a westward march and the proposed short line from leaven worth to denver is the line of its march |