Show I RAILWAY RUMBLES The General Activity Moving Toward the Weal In conversation with a wellposted party DEMOCRAT reporter learned yesterday erday that it is the intention of the Titah Midland people to reach Sat Lake in ono I year from Ihe present time The report hat the road is being backed by Jay Gould seems to be wellfounded and this of f course will insure the speedy comple ton of the road and give it a standing that few new roads have I seems toe b to-e the ambition of the great Gould to control a line of roads clear across the continent and the fact that the Midland contnent is to terminate at Los Angeles carries out this idea Owing to the high transportation Reese liolt Co the contractors have given up their Kansas contract and have settled firmly on Goulds Midland The terms of the contract bind these parties to the work until Salt Lake is reached with plow and scraper The Utah Contracting Company consisting con-sisting of Wm H Kimball president John Reese A B Holt S Groesbeck J Sanders and a silent partner has contracted tracted for 515 miles north from Pueblo toward the gulf road the Trinidad Santa Fe Fort Worth road evidently being under the control of the Midland people They also have a contract for the grade from a point some distance west from here to Salt Lake Emmigration canyon is likely to be the entrance to this city and as the Rock road is already in the Midlands hands it will of course form apart a-part of the line l arrangements toward buying a depot and other necessary neces-sary property in this city havo been quietly lut effectually settled and further fur-ther particulars in regard to this will be made known at an early date W H Kimball leaves for the East shortly t meet his silent partner in New Drleans for tho purpose of consummating consummat-ing all preliminary business THE D A R G MOVE < President Moffat of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway is in New York where he will order rails for the extension exten-sion of his road to Aspen and Glenwood Springs and arrange for the construction of broad gauge cars to run over the tracks of these extensions I is said in railway circles that President MofTats mission is significant in another point of view and that the coming year will witness wit-ness a spread on the part of the Denver and Rio Grande to cover every point west southwest and northwest of Denver worth reaching The extension of the Burlington and coming of the Missouri Pacific has proved an incentive to the Denver and Rio Grande people who are beginning to realize the necessity of immediate im-mediate action on their part to retain to their road sufficient independent business busi-ness to counterbalance the effect of the extensions of the other roads In short the Denver and Rio Grande4s Territory is being invaded and usurped by the new lines and in order to keep the business that legitimately belongs to them by reason of priority the Denver and Rio Grande is compelled t consider and favor certain extensions which heretofore have been considered con-sidered unnecessary and impracticable That President Moffat realizes the importance im-portance of the situation is evident from his policy which only a few weeks old and hardly aggressive has been liberal and enterprising The earnings of the road have been put in the right place The extensions that have been ordered and contracted for are considered judicious ju-dicious by railway men and are regarded as an evidence of what he will do in time Several important moves are anticipated and looked for on the part of the Denver Rio Grande but the fields of operation are as yet unknown I is a fact however that the Denver Rio Grande will become a rival of the present pres-ent roads competing for the trade of Colorado Col-orado and adjacent States and Territories President Moffats mission in short is said to be for the purpose of consulting the directors of the road as to its future and to lay 1 before them a plan which looks to the extension of the Denver Rio Grande into other fields than that now covered Denver News |