Show TO JOIN WITH burlington sweeping plans are under way in connection with the recent purchase of the denver deaver rio grande gra nde railroad which contemplate the tha merger ot of the great burlington system with kith I 1 at chicago st paul alu al alii nta na polls st louis omaha and kansas city with the reorganized rio grande and western pacific for the purpose ot of insuring the short transcontinental line the Dur burlington lington it was stated this morning has secured control ot of the bonds of 0 the denver salt lake railroad the road the rho plan as outlined for or securing the short line involves the use of the malfat rails to coal creek twenty miles from denver the con st ruction of a new grade to the south swinging roun round d to enter clear brcek crek canyon high on its nort northern heru ade avoiding the present excessive krade grade of he colorado southern a controlled proper property t y brough idaho springs to empire it is then proposed to pierce the raise at empire with a three mile tunnel instead of the six ox nille mile tuu tun 11 hicl ll proposed through james peak on he hc moffat road this tunnel would cut through the just to the south of 0 der tl aloud cud pass at one ot of the thinnest places paces in the range from the tun rrt a short line of new track would carry the road to Ta bernash from where v 1 cre it would again use the montal irack to orestod Ore and a newt orty yle stretch oil oft rack from orestod to ic dotsero dottero Dot sero on the rio grande ulm asi this would enable through transcontinental trains to cover the distance between denver and doese ro in miles instead of the d i 3 tanco tance now traveled by the ric orande of miles the meeting to cw the or C E of the nol holing lne and opera companies 0 the rio grinde r wi 11 1 l be held in denver next monday to information received 3 denver this morning |