, 1907-08-17
TWELVE MILLION DOLLAR CON.
Germ FORMED TO BUILD RAIL
ROAD FROM THAT CITY
TO SEATTLE.
Scheme includes Building Corporation
for the Denver, Laramie and
Northwestern, Right Of Way for
Which from Fort Collins to This
City Has Been secured-coal
Lands Secured and Be Included.

A total capital of $12, 600, 900; some
of the rieAe-l il On and coal fields in
America; a brand ley railroad system
for Colorado, running as an air line
from Denver to Seattle; offices in the
Ernest G Cranmer building; some
that are known on the director
ate and some that are quite unknown
and there you have the brief outline
of a proposition that has recently H.
spired a good many well-to-do n dis
corning Denver men with some little
enthusiasm n no little secrecy, says
the Denver Post of Friday. The scheme
is, according to some recent advocates.
the greatest thing for Colorado thai
ever came down the pike. There are
millions in it,"
A Great Scheme.
1t is to levy upon some of the finest
coal and iron deposits in the world. 1t
will bring Denver within forty-eight
hours, or whereabouts, of that great
occidental shipping point-Seattle. 1t
will link US up with New Orleans and
Galveston. 1t is q splendid enterprise,
these new converts say, that should be
supported by everybody. And it has
in their eyes additional merit in that
it is not going to Wall street for sup,
port.
Spending Large Sums.
Instead Of doing that, 1t is going
straight to the common people, the
small capitalists and the large ones,
as Stilwell has done in the building
of his Kansas City to Mexico line.
Only, the promoters say. they have
improved q thousand fold upon tho
Stilwell method One, enthusiast said
yesterday that three-Quarters Of q mil
lion had already been paid in hard cash
in Denver alone on the scheme, but
the ONCE at "511 E & G. building"
modestly denied this.
The claim was made, however, that
the proposition was well under way,
so well that the silence of two years
mighty fttingly be broken. And 1t
must be admitted that the silence u
been we'll kept. There is a great deal
yet t. be learned from the public poiat
VI tlCWs Out 81 A0A II 0V0AA0OA0 "a
authentic facts are these:
The Construction Company.
First in this $12, 0OO, 900 scheme
comes the Northwestern Land and Iron
company with q capital Of 81, 000, 900.
That ia the holding and construction
company of the railroad. OF that com
pany Judge John D. Milliken Of Nc
Pherson. Kas., is president; ex-senator
Colonel w. A. Harris, also Of Kansas,
is vice president; Sidney j.. Kent OF
Lincoln, Neb., is secretary, and Cap
tain Dabenny, once of the New York
Tribune and now of Kansas City, Mo-,
is treasurer. This company is incor'
porated. in the state Of Arizona. 1t is
said that this company holds many
leases, titles and options on valuable
coal and iron fields not yet specified
for publicity.
Incorporated In Wyoming.
Next ONE the railroad with the
title of the Denver, Laramie n North
western Railroad company. Its capital
is s., 200, 900. 1t has been incorporated
in Wyoming. 1t is said for this road
that it has already an almost complete
right of way secured from Denver to
Seattle, traversing the states Of Colo
RADIO, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon and
Washington.
Some Of the Officers.
The president Of this road is G. S.
Johnson of New York, president Of the
Natural Carbonic Gas company of that
city. He is a reputed capitalist. Col
onel R. H. Dwyer. formerly of the
Missouri Pacific and Illinois Central
roads, has already been named as gen.
eral manager of this new railroad. 1T
is said that there are q number OF
prominent Colorado men connected
with the proposition whose names are
not yet to be mentioned.
Kept lts Own C%ounseIs.
1t is peculiar to this enterprise that
it has been able SO long to carry on Its
campaign in secrecy. Men have been
working on it In one way and another
for nearly Ave year1k It has had Offices
in Denver for a year. 1t has evoked
some enthusiasm among business men
who are apt to look on any new big
enterprise with cautious eyes. And
1t seems to be worth further investiga
ton.
1t lifted the curtain a few inches to
day. 1t would not be q bad thing fol
1t to come into the open and take the
public into its confidence altogether