Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-08-02
THE COMING RAILROAD WAR.
Jay Gould and Leland Stanford
Stripping for In Fray-The &. =.
People Make Light of the Enemy.

Stripping for the Fray-The &. y.
People Make Light Of the Enemy
The incorporation Of railways in Utah
Nevada and California has attracted gen.
eral attention throughout the Coast. There
is no longer any doubt that Gould is pre-
pairing to wrest from the Central Pacific
people the supremacy Of the Pacific Coast.
Such a struggle between two such gigantic
money powers as these men head will be
of more than usual interest to the public.
1t will be a veritable bhttle of sacks, backed
by the skill, cunning and experience Of
two men of equal determination and re-
sources.
A reporter of the Record-Union a day or
two since called upon a gentleman OF San
| Francisco who is well informed upon rail-
road matters, and asked his opinion upon
the new corporations, and whether they
were part and parcel of the reported
scheme for bringing another overland rail-
road to San Francisco. The gentleman
said that whether the roads would be built
or not the future could alone determine,
but that the two interpretations were made
for a purpose was certain. sit has been
known in railroad circles for a long time"
the gentleman said, ''that Jay Gould has
determined to control a trans-continental
railroad. Some months ago he endeavored
to make arrangements with the Central
Pacific managers to obtain that road. in
which endeavor he failed nor could he
offer inducements enough to get possession
OF either the Central or Southern Pacific.
Failing to attain his object in this way,
Gould set about to accomplish his aim in
another direction. He began securing
railroads in the South a~ndSouthwest, the
most important Of which was the system
in Texas controlled by the late Tom Scott;
and has finally succeeded in mapping out
a plan that will enable him to have virtu-
ally two trans-continental roads from the
Pacific Coast-one by way Of Southern
Nevada to Salt Lake valley, where it joins
the Union Pacific, and the other through
Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to the
Gulf of Mexico, or the Southern seaboard
OF the Atlantic"
At this point the interviewed gentleman
called the reporters attention to a dispatch
from Omaha published last Monday, in
which it was stated that a prominent rail-
road man had informed a reporter that
Gould had perfected his system for his CON
tinuous overland line, and giving an out
line of it. ''This railroad man" continued
the gentleman, "was none other than s.
H. H. CLARK, the right hand man of Jay
Gould, and who RUM Gould's immense
business in the West and South. The fact
of Clark's talking shows that Gould has
made up his plans, and that he sees his
way clear to attain his ends. Whether
Clark has given the public correct inform
alton of Gould's projects or not, every one
will nave to Judge for himself. The plan
outlined is to run a roa from Santa Cruz
to some point in Pahranagat Valley, in
Southern Nevada, there to connect with
the Utah Southern (Gould's private prop
erty) and another road to be built by the
Texas Pacific (another affair Of Gould's)
the Atlantic and Pacific. snd the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe roads. Gould does
not control the last two named roads, but,
as the dispatch says, has completed salts
factory arrangements with them, and will
undoubtedly be the boss in the new con-
Germ. So, as was stated previously, if
Gould carries his plans out he will have
two ways of getting to the Pacific Coast
from the East, at least as far as Pahranagst.
BY this system Gould undoubtedly expects
to head off the Central Pacific, or force
that company to come to his terms. But"
here the gentleman's eyes twinkled. "Jay
dOulu VIII Hhu ne mas the biggest JOD OF
his life before he captures the Central Pa
cihc people. They have their eyes open;
know what they are doing; have some
money and knowledge of how to use it,
and as they were raised in the woods are
not easily scared at an owl. What their
plans are nobody knows but themselves,
as they are noted for keeping their own
counsel. But that they have taken meas
ures to protect themselves from Jay Gould
may be stated as a fact, and that those
measures will be effectual may be stated as
another fact"