Show E OF THE will it stop railroad constructor in the west k probability that the harmonization of the railroads means a gi banic foil which will preclude the of competing lants the people or the intermountain districts are greatly interested just now over every phase of railroad manipulation and especially is this BO with utah with assured improvements on the union pacific between evanston and ogden and the lake cut oft or the southern pacific a certainty there Is no doubt but that ogden Is in tor a most prosperous year but there is also promise of the extension ot the D R G to ogden from grand junction and the building ot the burlington to ogden from guernsey then the people of salt lake are especially interested arf the dark road to los angeles it however the reports recently received from new york are true there Is very little probability of the building of any of these roads in the immediate future unless it is the dark road which might connect the utah pacific with the utah arizona and thus connect through to los angeles by way of kangman and the santa fe the ot the great railroads of the west and southwest would seem to militate against the likelihood of the construction of any competing lines A recent special dispatch from new york to a coast paper says these figures give a clearer idea of how much money Is being made in wall street during the process of what the colossi of roads john D rockefeller J P morgan and J J hill call harmonizing the railroads bringing about a community of interests the vulgar the uninitiated those on the outside call these harmonized groups combines after the formation of the groups may como their unification today was further distinguished in wall street by tho of all the great railroads of the middle west and southwest the consolidation soli dation of these vast interests Is practically assured these financiers have again vastly profited by com their interests john D rockefeller J pierpont morgan jas J hill W K E H har alman russell sage george J gould E J berwind anson R flower the D 0 mills and here are the roada involved southwestern roads missouri pacific mileage capital outstanding missouri kansas texas 2200 ack island atchason Atch lson southern pacific st louis southwestern 1250 st louis san francisco 1385 middle western roads union pacific chicago northwestern burlington chicago great western total mileage total capital outstanding there are about miles of railroad in the united states of these more than one fifth are involved in the combination made today besides this harmonization to the jingle of wall street learned today that another road the lehigh valley had been absorbed by those planning to create joint national control of railroads the great railroads of the south and southwest are now in the combination the trunk lines in the east have been harmonized by vander allt and cassatt who Is jno D rockefeller ef eller all the anthracite coal roads have ben absorbed into one aggregation under the control of rockefeller morgan hill and vanderbilt except the delaware hudson and ontario and western and the purchase of the delaware hudson Is being completed pl eted |