Show THAT TRAFFIC COMBINE the big traffic combine recently entered into by the santa fe and south wa pacific continues to be an inter eting topic of conversation in local and other railway circles comment tug upon the matter the denver re be of the inet says gaya president jeffery of the denver rio orande grande stated that he would not like to make baake any statement as aa to its ito probable pro bible effort without knowing more about the agreement reached between the two gomp companies anies general manager dodge of the rio orande grande western thought that if the agreement fre ement hold held it might in a portion of the traffic li tough colorado at the midland santa fe offices the officials were reticent upon the subject but at the other offices the combine was openly discussed and the conclusion ot of railway men best beat able to judge is that the union pacific the burlington the rock hook island and the missouri pacific are completely shut out from coast traffic some doubt was expressed as to whether the agreement would hold it was thought that the cause of the agreement might be removed by the missouri river lines acceding oc eLling to the demands made by the southern pacific that they take a less per cent of the tariff but fiere are some doubts as to 0 thiu this it is believed that the combine was engineered by president rhinehart of the santa fe and fourth vim vice president stubbs of the Sou pacific this is the only shrewd move which the Sauta Santa fe has ever made and it is 18 the work of the new president said one rail railroad man A abnot not er of the general agents declared that the southern pacific never entered into an agreement unless it got the best or of it and in addition to taking the 1 larger arger share of the receipts of the combine it probably had bad the santa fe bound by an ironclad iron clad agree ment which would ol of san ban francisco for many years there la Is a feature in the combine which may tend to draw the denver rio bio grande into competition or of the rio grande western if all southern pacific freight over the rails of the old central pacific la is booked to sod and from ogden by way of the rio bio grande western and the Mi midland iland opposition to the midland may force an extension of the denver rio bio grande westward from grand junction one thing seems beema certain if the agreement to la not modified there tb ere will ensue a mad rush for the coast the union pacific might feel called upon to extend its road from milford utah via across southern nevada to the sierras and beyond to lo los lioa angeles or sn sin francisco white while the burlington would probably hasten its construction westward through wyoming and ida ho it is stated that work on the missouri has been contemplating building west from pueblo in a leisurely sort of a way will begin at once it was reported yesterday that ex state treasurer carlisle had the contract for the first hundred miles of track and had gone east to perfect arrangements one railway official declared that the missouri pacific would be in san francisco within two years |