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...error. Lincoln was counsel for the Illinois Central R. R., for the Rock Island R. R., refused a $10,000 per year offer from the New York Central. His "Wall Street connections" almost kept him out of the Presidency...
Meanwhile nothing has been done at Boulder Canyon. The dam's actual construction will probably be under the joint supervision of the army engineers and the Interior Department's reclamation service. Thirty miles of railroad must first be laid through a desolate rock-strewn wilderness and a town for 6,000 workmen built on the brink of the gorge. The prospect of Boulder Dam brought land booms at Las Vegas, Nev. and Kingman, Ariz. But so slow has the government been in getting started that these have mostly collapsed. Last week a gold strike outside Kingman made speculators...
...White Rock Mineral Springs Co. ("White Rock" water, gingerale, root beer, sarsaparilla, also "Still Rock" and "Kentucky Nip"): $1,229,000 as against...
Vagaries of rumor aside, there are three railroads which could make good use of the Denver & Salt Lake and its tunnel: 1) Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, 2) Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, 3) Denver & Rio Grande Western. The Rock Island and the Burlington, with lines from Chicago out to Denver, would both like to strengthen their transcontinental connections at their western ends by acquiring the Moffat tunnel. The Denver & Rio Grande Western is the most directly interested in the tunnel. Since it runs from Denver to Salt Lake City, the 175-mile saving would be made on its line. At present...
...Laurence McKinley Gould was back, hairy and dirty, from his 1,500-mi. geological trip to the Queen Maude Range. The Byrd ships, City of New York and Eleanor Boiling, were on the way from Dunedin, N. Z., to pick up the 42 men of his party, their records, rock specimens and equipment. The men were fretting for a change of society. Several were...