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Show 'che Wc-alem. Pacific . since that was npnpd Ia4t December goes over Che Denver -& Rio Grande, is knov.n to he handling (tbe larger proportion of tbe huKinesa of the American Stc?l and Wire company, a subsidiary of the truHt, to Pacific coast points and In running solid through tralnloads of this class 'of traffic through to San Francisco...' ' The trarnc, relations between the United States )Stcel corporation and the Could . roads are established On a solid bajd5, which 19 expected to be oven more ipronounced at an early date. The steel trust turned 132.O0O,-000 132.O0O,-000 pounds of traffic over to the Mis-sour! Mis-sour! Pacific last year. All of that enormous tonnage was handled over the Denver & Rio Grande One of the very first Hhipmcnts made over the Western Pacific after opening the road last December consisted of two trains of thirty cara eacli of the American Stool and Wire company'c products from. Chicago to San Francisco. SHHEITSMI RAILROAD SECRET New developments In tho affairs of the Denvor & Rio Grande continue with marked frequency. Many of them tend to confirm previous reports that there baa been a change from control of Gould to that of Edwin K. Havvley. Of the latest developments a Denver dispatch says: "The Denver & Rio Grande, the Missouri Pacific aod the Western Pacific Pa-cific have established verv close relations rela-tions with the United States Steel corporation, better known as the sted trust, aud have been sending solid trains of steel through Pueblo to tho coast. The significant feature of the deal Is that the shipments are being routed over roads controlled by Edwin Ed-win Hawley. via the Gould lines. The Gould lines, since tho opening of the Western Pacific last December, have been handling, via Pueblo, thousands thou-sands of tons of the trust's steel products, prod-ucts, similar to the products of tho Colorado Fuel & Iron company, In which company Mr. Gould was recently re-cently denied a controlling voice by John D. Rockefeller. Mr. Rockefeller's holdings In tho j United States Steel corporation were officially reported recently to bo nominal when Rockefeller, Jr., resigned resign-ed from the trust's board of directors, it Is, therefore, evident that It Is not Mr. Rockefeller's influence in the steel trust which has brought about the close alliance between the Denver & Rio Grande and other Gould lines and that corporation It is learned that fully 90 per cent of the traffic, both east and westbound, west-bound, which baa been going over |