Gunnison news-champion., 1910-10-14
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the management s,f the C'e,losado 4
so.thern has decided b. cla~e the
road from here 10 I,eaVer fBr the
winter. and rerhsPs permanently,
hsuhas sts Bs.d~sn ee.al and IL
Pitkia and Ohio City ores esi over
the Rlo Graade A mixed tram will
he run each wsy every das between
Ganalson aud Prtkln and also be
tween Baena Vista. NJ Elmo Fair
play and Denver on the eastern end
II the DIVISION The I.eadvslle
branch II the ssrrps gage dIssssoa
ls also 10 he sbasd med. tb9agh rails
will he allowed ~ REMAIN IN place
over both Boress and Alplne passes
as these PORTIONS are covered bv Q
mortgage All the Baldwin traffic
will he hauled via the Rio Grande.
and Of coarse the incoming aud out
gosns freight for towns and mines
along Quartz creek must travel over
the Grsade aud Marshall pass.
What the spring Will bring forth
is question, but slresey the cattle
men Of Guepisoa coantv are greatly
inconvenienced, as large stock ship
ments had been planned over the G.
as Il is a hundred males shorter
10 Denver for the entire Western
slope and the management of that
road Is missing the greatest indus
trial opportunity Of the times IN not
making a through line of it 10 the
vast developing agricultural country
west of u.s. of course the road had
10 be better or worse right speedily.
1t would have required broad gage,
new tso and half mile tunnel
under Alpine pass and seventy five
miles Of extension, but in eompsri-
son with the bussR 10 be developed
and the certainty Of cool. cattle, hay,
frsit, mail and pesssAAer traffic thss
vosld have made shis, like the third
division is " the Rie 0ssaae, tho
the best paving bss"ch On the sys-
ten, the investments wosld only have
been slight compared with the ulti-
mate return
News-Chslnpion has labored long
and hard 10 arouse the Western
Slope 20 the need OF this extension,
and the railroad management to the
opening before them. We admit it
has been like a voice crying in the
wilderness, but the necessity is here
and the opening is before the rail
road. We are not done yet, for the
industrial development Of Western
Colorado demands q second railroad
The Colorado a Southern is 100
MILES SHORTER THAN ANY
OTHER POSSIBLE OUTLET.
The Denver Times gives some in
teresting history OF the road as fol
lows:
The South Park road was orig
inally constructed with 35-pound
iron rails Inside Of one wear the
company made enough money TO re-
place these with 4O-pound steel rails
and still had enough money left to
pay dividend equal to SEQ a share
There WAS something peculisS about
the sale Of the road to the Union
Pacific in the early SOS. They
managed TO get part of the directors
away on a fishing trip and while
they were gone the remainder met
and made the deal
The Union Pacific went into the
hands Of receiver la 1898 and part
Oh the system WAS segregated and
named the Denver, Pacific & Gulf
Frank Trumbull Was put in charge
of the Colorado part of the Union
Pacific Is receiver Two years later
he also took charge of the Denver,
Lsadville 4 Gunnison. the new name
given the South Park when the
Uuion Pacific bought it, The road
had up TO that time been operated by
the Union Pacific rs a separate COM
pany.
Another mystery connected with
the road has never been cleared up.
The South Park line was one If the
principal owners Of the Denver
union depot Somehow in the mix
up its stock in the depot company
went astray After rts affairs were
again down TO a normal basis it was
found that the South Parks depot
stock was resting securely in the
the vaults Of the Union Pacific.
The South Park line runs through
some Of the most fArnous scenery in
the state. Alpine pass. on the Gun-
nison branch, and Borea. pass. Just
beyond Como, are world renowned.