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Show BURL8NGT01NI NOW HEADED THIS WAY Hill, With Large Interests in Western Pacific, Is to Push His Road, Now West of Lander, Wyoming, to Ogden and Here Con- nect With tho Gould Lino to the Coast. "William Darke of the .Burlington Route, which is one of the strong lines of the Hill interests, has spent a number of days In Ogden attending to business relating to freight and passenger traffic. Speaking of, the possibility of Mr. Hill making hie way into Ogden, Mr. Darke stated thai it was not a remote possibility. He maintains that Ogden holds an enviable envi-able position "with railroad magnates, especially so with the, Hill peoplo, and tbat'lt is not improbable that Mr. Hill will at some future time lnvado I this territory. Mr. Darke beicves the Hill Interests contemplate the purchase of tho Gould roads, at least a controlling interest, with the view of connecting the Burlington Bur-lington with the Western Pacific in this city, thus furnishing a transcontinental transcon-tinental central lino. Tho terminus of the Burlington is now at a point fifteen miles nojth of Landor, Wyo and only 200 miles away A road over tho old Sublet train across South Pass, near the head of the Sweotwa-ter Sweotwa-ter section is feasible It would intersect in-tersect the Oregon Short Line near the Ham's Fork tunnel, in the vicinity of Kommerer, traverse the Twin Creeks country and load to Bear river riv-er near Beckwith, 50 miles north of Evanston, Wyo. From that point it would reach to the head of Ogden canyon, south of Monte Crlsto, and on to Ogdon. This done and the Hill people, if associated with tho Gould interests, would bo connected east and west across the country, and they would also have a splendid outlet to the northwest section and tho rapidly-building rapidly-building country in northern Wyoming. Wyo-ming. In connection with this version of railroad development for Ogden it is stated from an authoritative source that thorc is going to be "something doing" with the Gould peoplo soon after af-ter the latter part of April, this year A letter has been issued by tho board of diroctors of the Gould roads to preferred stockholders advising them that at a meeting of tho board I the latter part of April the roads will bo bonded for $25,000,000, the bonds having been decided on and the money mon-ey arranged for. The lettor explains that this money will bo used for the double tracking of tho Rio Grande, tho minimizing of the Soldier summit grade, and for such other improvements improve-ments as the engineering department may suggest It is possible, say railroad men, that the "Burlington proposition has something to do with the sudden determination de-termination on the part of the Gould people to make Improvements nnd also al-so the cause of the sudden rise in the price of Missouri Pacific stocks. J. J Hill, sharing equally with the Gould people in a transcontinental route, would cause the Harrlman In- terests to sit up and tako notico and Ogden would bo tho central point of conflict. |