Show PACIFIC B BOSS ihas obtained control 0 the denver rio grande and rio grande western and will make those roads tributary to the ogden route all the colorado lines are purchased denver feb 8 the denver news prints the following this morning according to an authoritative report the same interests that control the union pacific have secured control of all the leading railways of colorado the list includes the denver rio grande colorado rio grande western and colorado and southern it this feat has been accomplished the union pacific Is to ie ithe main artery of traffic across the continent and the lines which have been named will be subsidiary to a vast transcontinental system connecting new york and san francisco the news gives daniel guggenheim Gugg the chairman of the executive committee of the american smelling smelting Sm elting company as authority for the above statement and credits him with the following statement 1 I am not a railroad man out I 1 will say that the same interests which have S control of the union pacific have secured control of the denver rio grande new york feb 8 reports from denver to the effect that the interests row in control of the union pacific railroad are to acquire possession of the leading roads n colorado could rot ibe confirmed here today one of the members of bhe harriman syndi cafe said that to che best of his knowlt edge there Is no effort on the part of the syndicate to absorb the colorado f roads ip maitland Malt land boppell company who the denver rio grande line said thay knew nothing of the report that the company had acquired or H seeks control of the rio grande western |