, 1880-12-23
Gou!d's Manipufations Of Pacific
and Southwestern
Stocks.
New Tariff Adopted by the South
western Railway ABso.
citation,
Tho Alton Carries tte Passenger Nar inte tht
Omaha and Pacific Traffic.
Gould to Absorb All The Loose Linea 1t
Southern Illinois,

sptttal DhpateA to 1ns Chicago Tribune.
ST. Louis, Mn., Dec, 22-The suggcstton Of
n working arrangement being made between
tho Mobile & Ohio nnu the Gould system OF
railroads, forcshadowed in u Cairo letter 10
TIFF Tribune last Tllnrsdny, begins to ns-
snnlo solid shape. It will, however, prove
more permanent tlmn mere working traffic
1t will result In consolidation. Tho details;
only hnyo 10 be arranged, md rs part ut tho
plan Mr. Superintendent Miller, of tho Cairo
Il Vinccnncs, Is now in New York repre-
sentfng that Company.
1t ls the intentioii-nn1 your correspondent
speaks By grave nutllority-0f the Gould
syndicate to absorb, consolidate, ami cons-
bInc, as the lawyers say, all tho foOsa lines In
Illinois lying south Of the Wabash l1aln line.
These lines nre: The Cairo j. Vnccnllcs, tho
Dnnyille e Southwestern, tho rc0rln, Dcca-
tur & Evansville, the Cairo & st. Louis Mr.
row Gauge. r. this consolidation will ho
aided the Chtcngo Il laducah extension from
EflinEhanI 10 Carmi.
Scion Humphreys, President of the Wabash,
is one Of tho principal stockholders In tho
Cniro s. Vlncenncs. Charles Rlagley, 1'rest-
dent of the Dauvflle & Southwestern,
anil onol of Its principal bontlholders. Is
Director In the Wabash. And, as for tho
T., b. & T. and e. s. st. L., their stock is so
placed and their embArrassmerts 10 many
that their Directory viii look with pleasure
upon my overture the Gould syndicate may
hit the principal feature Of tho consol1da-
inntlc WITH tic Mobile 4 Ohio. rhe Wabnsh
already owns Tho Chicago Il Iatucah, 2l5
miles from Chicago to ERngha,n: 1t now
proposes TO build m mir llne from Eh!ng1lanl
It connects witt, the Cairo q YiIcenncs 10l
| miles TO Cairo, making the total distance be-
tween Cairo mid Chicago as follows:
=, ,,, M1ss:
via Chicago 4 Eastorn illinois. so
Ths Goala sysitSg ysiS H., hoWsyer pEoposGs e
Southern ossa nn.nn nos desgfGe a1nns fne l Il
Chicasn I and t},e Gulfs Sta.es, holding itseif
free forever from the domination Of the Vic
tor Newconlb system. At present Cttcago's 8
amount reach, Alahan,u, Georgia, South
| Carolina, md Florida, partly via
Louisville n. And ,,;' Nasyllls; PIesIent ' s1
Ienn,, d Distributing point, working that far
III harmony Will, the illinois Central. ,Thia
can be the mort, gtlcctua'ly accomplished
now TINT the Gould syndicate has its own
Heretofore tho Gull statcs have consumed!
Kul,sns City and Chicago provisions shipped
York and then rcdistributcd to tllcnl by
steamer and coastwfse snff. Ono glnnce at
tho lnnp Of tho Southern States will
show what nIl original field Is
corporations. Tho Illinois Central, with Its
Southern line, must he conceded the MIssts.
stppt, Louisiana, Sontl, American, nni Eli
ropenn trade, for lts facilltles aIe being daily
ali tint Trade susceptible Of distribution yin
Corntli, Decatur, Meridian, Montgomery, aNtl
Mobile proper. a fair proportion OF South
ern people will continue to trade with St.
Louis will be compelled to SEQ Kal,sas City
and Chicago capital pushing provisions hy
her very door Into that FIR South which
would llare been her own territory Ind she
crats.