, 1905-05-06
INTERESTING STORY FROM THE
DENVER POST CONCERNING
THE PLANT LOCATED
IN THIS CITY.
Paper Says That Union Pacific Will
Build Ten Million Dollar Plant
Here for Manufacture of Rails and
to Fight the Colorado Fuel and
Iron company-ReIieved to Mean
Much More Modest Sum for Us.

Much More Modest Sum for Us.
The following item from yesterday
afternoons Denver Post will be per-
used with interest here, in view of the
hopes of the citizens and the belief
by many that the mills are to be re-
opened:
"E. H. Hartman of the Union Pa
cific railway will build a 100000 900
steel works at Laramie, Wyo., to sup
ply his mere roads with rails and
to fight the Colorado Fuel and Iron
company. This report came from New
York this morning.
"A meeting Of the directors of the
Union Pacific is being held at Salt
Lake City today and Hartman is try
600 new stock. A part of that huge
sum will be expended in constructing
the steel works.
Hartman and Gould have been
warning for many years. Lately the
situation became SO acute that Gould
retired from the directorate Of the I'm
ion Pacific and Hartman will be fore
ed from the Rio Grande.
1.-The United States Steel corpora
ton Is reported to be aiding Hartman
and assistance to build the steel works
at Laramie will be given by the steel
trust If 1t is needed"
Not many for a moment believe hat
such a vast.sum as $40, 0O0, 900, or any
considerable part of it, will be placed
in the Laramie plant, that part of the
story being taken to mean that the
Hartman interests may have set aside
that sum of money for the steel indus
try made necessary following the sew
ering OF the relations of the Harri-
man and Gould interests, the latter
being largely interested in the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron company and Mr..
Hartman being willing to leave that
company and carry on the steel bust
ness for himself. The Laramie plant,
it is held by many, will be rehabilitat-
ed, a sufficient portion of the sum set
aside for steel purposes being used to
make the mill answer the purposes
for which it is intended.
There are three or four circum-
stances of recen occurrence that tend
TO give some semblance Of reality to
the report. 1t ID said that some
months ago, when a couple Of Laramie
gentlemen sought to buy one Of the
buildings at the rolling mills, to be
move to the stock yards and convert
ed into a large nay warehouse, they
were told that the buildings were not
for sale-that the rolling mills might
be again used and they would be
needed there. The buildings were not
moved, but are still on the mill
ground.
A few days ago, during a brief visit
to the city Of Mr.. Williams Mckeen,
the superintendent Of motive power
and machinery for the Union Pacific
system, he intimated to q reporter for
The Republican that this paper had
about correctly sized up the situation
and that the stories about the reopen
ing Of the mills were not myths-were
no longer uncertainties, in other words.
He would not discuss the matter def
nitely, leaving the impression that he
had made his recommendations, which
were then in the hands Of the New
York officers, and that, aside from pos
sible notifications, there would be
something doing along the line Of his
recommendations.
The building Of the reservoir at the
city springs is taken to mean by some
that the railroad company desires more
water than it is now using and is will
ing to spend its good hard money to
get it. The present supply Of water is
large enough for the present needs OF
the company, and 1t has nothing to
worry about just now. Its pipes are
large enough to supply every gallon
It consumes at present. The future ID
being provided for. and the rolling
mills are believed to be in the near
future.
At one time it was stated that the
machinery to rehabilitate the mill was
being actually gotten together 1t Oma
ha and Cheyenne. and that It would
be but = short time before 1t would be
placed in position here. It was report
ed BY = local railroad man today that
the boilers for the plant have actually
besn selected and aro.now in the Oma
ha boiler yards awaiting orders from
New York to have tham pat II paacs
The ten million-doilaf story M,
mean . hundred Thousand q % "a