The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-31
MIDLAND
| HAS GOOD GRADES
s,preys Last Summer Located
Bctter and Lower Line
Around Leadyille.
TW0 PER CENT PRACTICAL
AVER SHORTER NEW ROUTE
influence of the GouIds Said to
Be Waning in Railroad
World.

W vi Iu.
.um ,,sy or may not be liz the West
pacific although il is a generally &C"
.,od theory that such is the case, but
fair guess that lie is not in the
4 r..,,r & Rio Grsnde, at least TO stay,
railroad surveyor in Salt Lake
I ,.erdsy, as he unrolied q blue map
4 wing certain sections of The Colorado
uahud
l -ulp is a crank on low grades. and ne
4 c,orodo Midland has the io~cst grade
4 ~ across ,hc middl. Rockies. III"
(, rolo1ado Springs. where the Midland
arh. up 10 Manitou and beyond, there
- sbont four miles OF 1 per cent grade.
-Tsr there glc about eighteen miles Of
Il ,.l a fraction per cent grades along
4. cnad on into Grand Junction. No
,s,- .VSc Colorado mountain road can show
~ low grades, and Hill is a crank on
Vow there have been certain survey
I. r,riics IN the field all the past snIn-
-,f ont ~ Aspen. colo, 10 tho SOUTH
..l running lines and levels. Reservoir
~ was What lEcy were looking for, or
i \ last said so. Eut ] have good rea-
i "a "a b..i"vc that They were seeking
Nv pute ;or the Colorado Midland
!, ol ..snen ~ the west OF the
s,.rarhe range. along the south SIDE
1 = Woupt Princeton. into tho valley of
/ =. Arkansas ncar Bucna Vista. where
,ouchcs the present tracks OF th'. MIDI
4 also understand that this route mas
,-ss loraicJ. and nowhere has over
~ cent grade The present i'pe :uns
/ I, N, Roaring Fork or the Grand from
Il then Ia -
/ Ne SaGDachc range Up 10 Lc1dvilic.
n,n down the Arkansas 10 Eucna Vista,
Ttis IS ,lc present route, remember.
The New Route.
This ncv route is much shorter and
bwor Grade. not over pcr cent AL
~ way from Grand Junction ;o Bucul
ra,. From Buana Vista. into tho val
> ri ihc South Fork Of tho South
F,iie tho c.adc is just as good and on
;'7H this stream through lilcvcn-milc
aayon mill the road begins 10 climb
II ,o the Pixies peak region. Here come
Il to and I ncr cent grades.
. -Br, here enter another new route for
= Midland, Keep on down tho South
fof. past the mouth OF Trout creek TN
3 ihe aid South Park road Is eEcoun-
fil9. and then on into Denver over that
10, 2il an M easy Grade every foot Cf
q way In each direction. and none of il
. iFr. rcI cent 10 the mile.
-iii owns The Colorado southern and
n Colorado Southern controls the South
l.k up pla.tc canyon, and owns half
r-fc,t in the Colorado Midland. The
re roods are al under I'm control. so
. e'iNcu.iy is To be expected in this di-
II ricn.
What grade tbc Midland could get
ION Grand Junction into Salt Lake do
~ kaor. hui u can easily have per
~ erade from Denver into Grand
/ With such railroad hand TO draw
= % not sec what Hill can want per
f.ltntiy with IN" !tiO Glandc and Its
ffs1 si1das. that cannot bc lowered TO
Uihinr near what is within command
ir Midland
Hill Holds Trumps.
Iho Moffai ro1d and the Rio Grandc
,'nTsily 20 together, and ! would mnt
'uprIeed 10 see amy day that iho
NV Island has hoth ~ them, out Ifiil
~ he counlcd out of Tho Rio Giandr
''fGl possibly, for certain stock irsd-
= purposes far tho time being. For
+N.on IN III" long ran. llill Wlll never
,4l IN thr Rio G3anlc for n main linc
9ns as he las what he has in the
-l'lll engineers have tho past summer
~ very careful examination OF the
,,,' M Colorado Midland and these 'rosc-
vus,e surveying: parties have been very
n - w INC colorado mountains, al the
Branching Off from tic Midland
asel-o'- -Hay
cilc objection might bc made that
noild would hav" conaidc;a blc
''out TINS. especially as the Rio
! NR,r, CONTROLS the oihey half of the
Ismo' ~ Hill is In the Rio Grandc TO-
10 II is ohlN for one Tcas1H-to exert
III f"%n'r % on ihc Gouid Shar" Of TN" Mid
r1i,lo ,ocS * and because ihs Rio Grandn
,oss, INC Western Pacific, or Is sup
Il ,,r..,' ~ II looks today from certain
'ihsn's, such AS ] have secn men
tsn ,. VI me Tribune. thai the IIarri-
II I IL "''ntefts have more % say today
IL "es'en Pacific than any one
:. Position Of the Goulds.
'.oo, s1, 10 my mind. IL about out Of
. n 1,a t@ilroaI world lie has let
H { n. 'gs. i pi his roads. The following
tsdinr "T,on .1,,n Ncws Bureau. under tho
80 ,,r INC vanishing Gould Irflu-
Il b ,Ir,, s Its own story that comes az
Il a.Tp''ss' 10 railroad mcn VI saws,
/ .id,s.., iH!anctai community has Vet 10
/ lss b.aa 10 Inc fUll measure tow vast
vars IN INC INC contraction IN the last two
toce .hc scope Of the Gould irfIu-
| iaIi,,,; lne 1900 panic found ;lr Could
' lID,as leIr s9. w M vuinoranic :, position ,bai
!, th en.son "hlch has been occurring
A ,l,ll.'sAut rcpc iitiou during tho mast
4 talTo,,uu months has been an lneyitabic
csoGS y hardly nocessary io tab,,lstc ,hs
/ Emarer b.u"s u"s which l;ayc passed into
ihica ihn 'nus: Thcr" IS the Wahaah,
| ely c 1ne Rock Island Interests nrrrtI,
b aroos, Western MARYLAND. which
4 Issas n ,crteln 10 20 Ia Lake Shuro.
\ unde,e, ar''lc, which Southern Pacific
4 Ifc wl,ton 10 own. and Western IA
1 Art bci',. hr. Could surrendered ONLY
4 r1ub ,,nss PERSUADED that tho prupcrt-
radIc.,l o,Ir mo utter siagu1 ton without
"'p,,n chongc I'm policy.
4 sld raii,y AN that remains OF thr
ne anil ~ empire IL Missouri Pa
4 1yr cony MI. Gould Is understood 10
inl, 'ms'n'raied his invcstncrr largely.
n Nr,,ng"-tLly' y hut 10 n" on the rcr@,.
n ih'n w. IWE a"iiv. managomrn1 Il.
\ Gporp. ''iis connection uu associate
-'.~rEE" Gould gays.
.,sl Inc nc,., "EGrr reason ia believe
ssl dlsan-,Ns yeir VIII Witness tho prac-
Il saleyial Nc" OF George Gould as "A
IL Inar.a't"@ In TIC active direction
Nh ybi"1,s"m"nt al the biz pIonrrtin:
Inalcl IN .he .e Could name has been as
4 W obyi,,,"oIi In broad WAY is per-
1 b1sIncg, Air. Could has had plenty
L,'Fulivc ,Hasina iioI, hut has lacked
saion In pay, tact and personal ap-
"a thi,I, ing oui his schemes.
ai1- son" MI, Could has como TO
sin'ss n,a - his own shortcomings "a.
4 \ WITH dt.naHagcr and financier, and mai
4 rs Dnn,Ht,I irom active psr;lcipa tion
an sip.J ''Vs Is ~ much To Ills credit
- h', OF his Ia the last five
nSnne. {, q uays Of strenuous cam
,sslsiscior,, certainly impossible to get
Itho ~ HloGE tho ynci,..., -, ~ ~, '''"'-