| Show NOTHING TO TAKE BACK when you see it in the NEWS we BO ao jy this relates to the latest railroad information as aa well as everything else and that a morning temporary oo which has already had bad to eat crow for contradicting and ridiculing a NEWS article on the railroad situation should again come forward with its denials and jeers is only an evidence that it is getting hungry for another meal of the same savory kind of food the NEWS yesterday alluded to the offers to buy the utah central railroad of this city this excited the mirth of the referred to and it indulges in this mor mornings DiDgS issue in the usual amount of ungentlemanly language quotes supt bupt of the road in question adduces a afew few theories of its own and then calmly dismisses the story as baseless and absurd that may be satisfactory to some but it to the public the latter waits facts here are a few more perhaps I 1 can give some information sald said the same prominent bustness business man whom the NEWS quoted last lait night to a representative of this paper today that will clear away some of the mist that seems to have settled upon and be mr mackintosh lis mind I 1 am in a position to know that in addition to the otters offers to purchase the utah Centra las published in your paper last evening that that road has another offer a fourth one so far developed that I 1 did not feel at liberty to say any thing about it yesterday but in the face of the pointed denial I 1 will now give it out briefly stated it is this last summer in june I 1 believe C E perkins president of the chicago burlington quincy with headquarters at burlington iowa came to this city on important business I 1 am not sure that he be received an option on the utah central at the time but he quietly bought from rob bob walker and paid for the ten acre bleci block of ground opposite the utah central depot and bounded by main west temple and flight eight and ninth south streets I 1 do not know what the purchase price was but I 1 am told and have every reason to believe that the figure was a stiff one I 1 don dont donit it know what mr walker will say eay about the transaction but I 1 know what I 1 have said is all right As to the statement that nothing Is ig known by the officers of the wyoming salt lake california of any offer having been received for its franchise the NEWS is safe in repeating the assertion ser tion there Is ia positive proof that one of the officers of that road has already made two trips east in response to telegrams from railway mag nates tending to a puro pu rename and that the matter is now under consideration the NEWS can further state that as late as saturday lant the officers and stockholders of the wyoming salt lake and california road held a meeting in this city and signed articles arti clea of agreement in which they bound themselves under seal and official attestation to pool their stock for a period of one hundred sud aud twenty days and to sell for any figure over and above 10 a share all of this will no doubt bo be news to the contemporary which to is so dubious concerning items it get first it may be news to mr mackintosh even whose position as superintendent of the U C ry by presuppose pre suppose that he knows every thing in view of his bi remark in a morning paper that he does not see the NEWS oftener oo on an average than once every six eix months he will doubtless be in a position to confess that he at last has found out how much he has been missing |
