The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-13
hallway RECORD.
Jay Gould and Vanderbilt Forsa an
Aliiance-rhe March 10 Mexico
other MaIters.

a New York special ssys; 1t is sisted OF
Wall street, on the reported authority o.
jay Gould himself, that the consolidation Of
She telegraph companies was only the first
move on tho partof himself Aad Mr.. Van
der0ilt for combination Of their grand IT,
teFesls, and that Nc. Vanderbilt, in accord.
sncs with the understanding between Mr..
! Gould and himself, will nos take an equal
share In the deyelopmentof the south western
roads sn1 in the International road, which
IS 10 penetrate TO the Mexican capital. The
present prospects era that these great cap
i.alsts have concluded 10 work Ia harmony
as against the combined competition or op-
position Of all rivals, ana thus they expect TO
control the greatest combination Of trans
portaLion and telegr.2hic Interests in this OF
any other country
Nirginia's interestin the Atlantic, Mississip-
| bi End ONO, amounting TO 100000 has
eeen sold for $500 000 The Clyde syndi-
ate ar The purchasers.
Colonel Talmege general manager of the
Missouri Pacltlc railroad, says Jay Gould
| will sdd about nine hundred miles OF new
road to the Missouri Pacific system dayng
! the present YEAR The extensions win EN-
! brace shout four hundred and fifty miles IN
Missouri and Kansas aud an equal milesge
! Ia Texas, carrying the system 10 the Rio
| Grande at Laredo To meet She require.
ments Of these extensions fifty thousand tons
of steel, aud eight hundred tons OF iron nails
have been ordered; also forty locomotives,
three thousand freight csrs, twenty psssen-
ger coaches and siI baggage cars.
Says the Chicago Times Of tb3 s J.: "TO-
| day, or if not today, some time tGis week,
th6re will be held q private meeting Of the
aolid men of Chicago. All this gathering the
plan to be elaborated will be predicsted to q
great extent upon these facts: Chicago pos.
! sesses from SIX to eight southern routes
whereby present difficulties 10 the way OF
foreign trstiic msy bs obvislod. The ports
Of Brunswick and Savannah in Georgia, and
Port Royal and Chsrleston in South Caro-
lima, on the south Atlantic coast, which are
open 10 navigation all the year round, are
not Vt greater distance from Chicago than
the eastern termini, and the length of route
from them to Europe is the same, but with
the advantage Of being safer because beyond
the regions If iceburgs and fogs. Chicago Is
the lake end of the Chicago and Eastern Hi
nois, Louisville u Nashville, Cincinnati
Southern & Kentucky Central. sooa to
reach Augusta, Georgia, via Knoxville, Ten
ncssee. This will at an early day become
the shortest route 20 the southern assporlr,
being not over seven hundred and fifty miles
in length, and the only link lacking is tho
line between indianapolis and Lexington,
KY, which will cross The Ohio river at We.
way. 1t will be thus seen that Chicago
already practically possesses tho increased
facilities for the development Of its business,
and needs only stretch out hand to grasp
thom For some time back an active ond
perseveriug representative of southern ship
ing interests has agitated the subject OK omen.
ing the southeast Atlantic ports 10 the traffic
of this city and tho great wess. Ths project
has already received the formal endorsement
Of the boards OF trade Of Chicago, St. Louis,