The Rock Island's Big Project

New York, Fab. 14. -The most important news of the day ou Wall straet comes from Philadelphia. It is a statement that the Rock Island railroad proposes to extend its [ines by 1,200 miles, running extensions to Denver and the Gulf of Mexico. This work will require $o0, 000,000, for which new bond3 will be issud. !The Rock Island, by its proposed Denver extensión, will enter into direct competition with the Burlington & Quincy, and a new railroad war, involvia all tha grqat companies in the west, may rosult.