| Show THE SIOUX CITY AIR LINE LIKE away back in last december articles of incorporation were filed in the state house for or the colorado and utah pacific railway through an arrangement made with the officials the fact that this important document was deposited in the archives was carefully kept from the reporters aind aed the company proceeded to carry out its plans plains without any hint bint having been given to the world surveying parties were put in the field of course it was not long before the men of sines and cosines attracted a great deal of curious attention they were observed prowling around the mountains north of denver and near Boul boulder Jer rumors of all kinds have grown out of their operations most of which connected the burlington with the evident preparations to run another line across the backbone of the continent the surveyors kept their own counsel and none of the guessers guessels gu essers had anything to go on some of the shrewder ones surmised that the sioux city short line had a finger in the pie and that it contemplated building an extension or more properly a branch from a point on its line through nebraska this is very probably the intention of the company but it has riot not yet been fully declared by authority yesterday however it was learned from in n inside source that whether or not the company intends to have a road into denver from the east at once it undoubtedly does intend to build immediately from denver to the west A gentleman who has been acting as confidential agent of the company was seen yesterday by a reporter of course lie he professed the most dense ignorance at first but was soon driven into a corner and admitted that the information was correct we were a little too smart for you fellows said he when we filed those arti lea of incorporation but I 1 suppose the thing has got to come out now and it matter much anyhow as the company is nearly ready to go ahead P how far have you got P all the preliminary surveys have been made and a construction company with a capital of has just been formed to build who are in that coni company pany you had better waita wait a little while until things are ready I 1 dont want to tell just yet where will the road run from denver it will go to boulder and there it will turn about due west to ward and the hot springs and on through middle park the line will come out qt t provo after peno penetrating trat ng the strawberry country and will then run up to salt lake and ogden the news was very close to us ua some time ago when it gave the information that a railway had been gett getting possession of large quantities of laud land along the yampa river what cihat advantages will your road have from denver to ogden will be miles shorter thau by the present route of the union pacific and miles shorter than by the rio bio grande it will pass through a splendid country full of wealth of all kinds and needing only a railroad to develop it ahe short line will open up a part of colorado that has been neglected and will add untold millions to the wealth of the state the building of this road will not interfere with the line which the company is ia going to put th through rough wyoming it will connect with that line and give this city another independent outlet to the pacific coast this company is rapidly developing one of the gea greatest test railway plans ever matured even in this country and it should be re member ej that it is not asking a dollar of assis assistance taneo from the government what eastern company is concealed in IVA lt was asked you may be sure that there is plenty of money behind it was the reply nearly all the chief officials of the company including Ate sers jones wendell goodwin D mckenzie and manager mclean me lean have ex presed themselves as enthusiastic over the prospects of the wyoming line but have not sounded from the housetops anything about their little project in this region denver leuw |
