The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-11-27
THE KING
Of Railroads is Visited by ST. Louis
Merchants.
He Informs Them That He Will
Work for st. Louis
He Advises Them To Extend Their
Grain Cspsc N.
Other Railroad News.

ST. Louis, Nov. pa number Of the
merchants business men and capitalists OF
this city, wishing to pay their respects to
Jay Gould, called upon that gentleman At
noon to-day at the directors room of the
Missouri Pacific railroad. The affair was
intended to be private, but it appears that
a reporter of the Post-Dispaich was pres.
ent and that paper this evening gives a
full account Of the proceedings.
The visitors were introduced by Charles
S. Greeley, of the Kansas Pacific railway,
and were cordially received by Mr.. Gould.
John Wshl, President of the Merchants
Exchange, stated to Mr.. Gould that the
gentlemen present had called to pay their
sincere respects and
BID HIM A HEARTY WELCOME
to the city and they hoped he would end
his st. Louis interests as valuable and prof.
table a. he anticipated; to which Mr..
Gould bowed graceful acknowledgements.
Ex-Governor Stsnnard was then called
upon and made little speech, welcoming
Mr.. Gould to the city in behalf of all her
people, congratulating him on his recent
purchases here and elsewhere in the West
and giving some account of the commerce
of st. Louis, her importance ss . railroad
center, her advantages as q distributing
point, the growth of her grain trade and
manufactures, her elevator capacity and
ability to handle the grain of the tributary
country, her outlets to other markets east
and south to foreign ports, and finally
drawing the sentlemen's attention to the
GREAT ADVANTAGE
the Mississippi river Afforded for chesI
transportation to the sea, if proper effort
were made in that direction.
Mr.. Gould replied to these remarks, sub
stantially as follows;
| "Well, gentlemen, in reply to you
] remarks will say that AZ long as l hav,
the management Of these roads here / shall
certainly
| WORK FOR THE INTERESTS OF ST. LOUIS
We have some 5000 miles of railroad
| all of which centers here, and l could no
do otherwise than strive for the prosperity
of this city. Ii seems to me you hav,
| neglected your great river. You ought Il
util. ., it more in your shipping trade. W,
expect to bring q great deal OF grain to thi
point and / do not believe you are in ;
condition to handle it. believe
KANSAS ALONE
| will produce 5000 900 bushels of wheat mex
year and probably 20,ooO,0OO bushels o
| corn. Most of this corn can be brough
here by our roads; and we will also b. m
. great deal here from Nebraska YO1
ought to /, able to rend much of this grail
down the river but you do not now hav
the prof. r mesns of transportation, and
think you should Immediately seek I
make the needed Improvements"
The call than terminated and all SCENE
to he much pleased with the result.
| Mr.. Gould's allusion to the river az
means OF transportation leads the busines
men to believe that ne is
| MUCH INTERESTED
in the matter and that the plan talked
| and partially organized some time ago b
the st. l., X. c. and n. railway compan
| of building q number of tow boats and grail
] barges and establishing barge line be
| tween here and New Orleans will be carries
out in the near future.
Mr.. Gould has made q careful examIna
| ton Of the
MISSOURI PACIFIC PROPERTY
at this point yesterday and to-day and ex
presses himself surprised at its extent an
value and much pleased with his purchs- e
He will take daylight trip over the roa'
to Kansas City Tomorrow and from Their
will 60 to Omaha and thence to Ogden.