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Show ! RAILROAD FROM BOISE TO COAST Boise, Ida., April 4. -That there is a big fleal pending which, if success fully closed this week or in the ini mediate future, means nothlntj more nor leas than that the money necessary neces-sary has been raised for construe lion of the Boise-Butte-San Francisi 0 railroad its entire length from Butte via Boise to tidewater at Sun Francisco, Fran-cisco, was the authentic Information 'i en out here today. While negotiations ha'-o not been closed, conferences with financiers of prominence in this country and foreign for-eign representatives have been In progress for the past several weeks at San Francisco and Los Augeles. i and a definite understanding as to the financing of the road will ho i reached If all goes well The prospects pros-pects are said to look bright It Is given out on the same excellent excel-lent authority that several of the I larger trans continental railroads of the northwest are lending aid and en-I en-I couragement to construction of the i road They are said to include the fircat Northern, Northern Pacific, the Hurlington and the Chicago, Milwaukee Mil-waukee & Pugct Sound While three of these roads have northwestern Pacific Pa-cific coast terminals, a cutoff to San Francisco to tap the south Pacific coast will do much toward meeting the waterway competition of the Pan ama canal which already has resulted in transcontinental railroads reversing revers-ing the stand they have taken for I twenty years on the long and short ; haul and which has given and prom ises to continue to give such keen competition that every available route for steam transportation facilities must be made use of. The proposed ! Boise-Butte-San ' Francisco road Is classed as one of thu routes. Well posted railroad men of this ' city are silent as to the prospects for the construction of this road. They ; jidmit however, that there Is a bit ' deal in the wind and that Its sui cess fu consummation means much to the i Interior territories of the states of Montana Idaho, Oregon, Nevada and I !alifornia. it Is known thai the conferences In connection with the financing of the! proposed road have been In progress in California for some time and that j at these conferences capitalists with millions at their backing have been in attendance. Mr Leonard is understood under-stood to have the matter of presenting present-ing the proposition to them in hand no |