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Show B RA'LROAO FOR COLORADO Denver. C"h., Feb. if,. Colorado Is to In.- connected with a new trans-continental route, to he constructed by the Southern Pacitlc In Arizona and tbe new line will cut several hundred lnlles from the distance between Denver nnd I.os Angeles. Behind the Arizona Eastern company, which was Incorporated in Arizona last week, was S-o(ooii capital and much more extensive const ruction plans than the building of a single line to Durango. The line which Is to be built connect- j Ing th Denver & Rio Grande at Du-rcnuo Du-rcnuo is to be made a main line in- I stead of a branch and it is only one of sev ral which are lo be constructed. con-structed. The Arizona Kastern will take over the r.lla Valley, Globe & Northern. I Arizona & Colorado, and Phoenix & I Fa-tern, all of which are subsidiary j lim r, of the Southern Pacific. A new I trans-cor.tlnental llae will be built via Yum.i and Phoenix, and from this line extensions will be made in two direc- tions Into Colorado. The main line in;o Colorado will start from San Carlos, Car-los, Ariz., and run via Talklaci to Gaibe, tlieueo to the boundary line be twcoQ New Mexico and Colorado, where It Is Intercepted by. the Las Animas river. In Colorado it will be extend M north to Durango. The m roud line Into Colorado I will ;.rr at. the mouth of the San i Fianclsen river In Graham county, j i'lz. and run via Clifton tn a eon-iiectimi eon-iiectimi with the main line betwreti I A 7.1 re and Farmitigton, about Tj miles I M iuh of Duram-'o. The Durango line will lonnect with the new 1 rans-eontlnenal lire through Arj. uiJ and furnish the shortest route j lr. ia Denver, Omaha and Ixis An- g It will sae at least l.'O and po-, po-, rt bly -joO miles over the present shortest short-est route. |