Show BIG mm MERGER IS NOVI many many have a read of tile the proposed aberger merger of 0 the three railroads that Is tho the D kr G tile the western pacific and the burlington commonly known as the C D B and Q arthur curtis james tile the genius who has got such a hold in the rail road business la is supposed to be the gi guiding Alding hand in the plan of combining thee three terns under one working head 1 I means a lot to utah and colora colon do for two or three years it has seemed r probable that the missouri i pacific would head the consolidation scheme because that road Is COUL coin only supposed to own about 50 percent of the W V P tind and the D 11 G mr air james owns enough of the burlington and the W P to control is as the largest impending financial I 1 trouble in western vestern pac t tic business per pel report inal al es net notion I 1 on imperative and wiatt with little delay delav tile the railroad story la Is interesting annd among its inter interesting sting phases mav mai be mentioned these viz for 33 35 the burlington li n played entirely in tile the mississippi valley and lies depended on othra ads clr r an outlet to tile the pacific junt id U the AT bourt pacific did for a long time the D R 0 credit in connect tion lion with the al P built the line west of salt lake cit city to the te golden gate but that move broke the D kr kit G or helped to do it and made an other whorled the three lines with his dream of an independent road from denver west to the pacific ocean but died comparatively poor na ana his puna plans n nj ren renild aci he moffat tunnel was bored thru the over six sit miles costing 17 hacked by a bond issue voted b atlie people of N W colorado I 1 and denver and completed there there years ago the denver deliver S L C the tha road was and Is in re celver ship and the C D Q has op aerated crated it together with the lease on the tunnel not entirely exclusive I 1 for any ono one railroad however and la Is today noting acting as am receiver whal while e the I 1 cutoff cut off oft from the tunnel over to the D IL 0 Is being built a move I 1 that insures more use of the tunnel slid and makes ilia hie distance between S L C and denver miles IL less so hence the combination of the DA H R G anti and the burlington with the IV P as the western out let makes a strong railroad system and likely add very much to the viti vitality lity and de velo of the colorado river a rea area in these two states utah and color ado the has mado made itself famous by helping in many ways to build tl up towns and business en this line ine it if his combination goes thru and perhaps san juan wilt will imbed I 1 lately fee ithe force of the power powerfully full organization the Burling burlington tom builds more than railroad it promotes and developed dev elopes a the territory it t serves serres I 1 k |