The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-07-24
RAILROAD SCHEMES.
Gigantic Plans shat are Being
Made and Usah IatereSIs.

n in railroad circles as the trusted
o agent of Jay Gould in his southweS-
; tern scheme Of railroads, / got, to-
E day. the cleareSt and newest state
! ment Of the present state of opera
: tions, the fullest and most
D comprehensive description of the
! plan of this wonderful scheme of
railroad developments yet pub
J lished. Notably among these is the
: statement that an alliance has al
ready been formed between the Tex
as Pacific (Gould's railroa0 the
Atlantic and Pacific, controlled by
the NickersOn interest in the A. Z.
, and S. F. r. r., and the Utah South
ern and Union Pacific, to form a
junction in the Parahanaget valley,
Nevada, and unite in the
building of a trunk line
through from that point to San
, Francisco. An opportunity has
been afforded me to see documents
from London containing infOrma-
ton that $25,000,o00 worth of bonds
for this trunk line had all been sub
scribed, and to-day cipher telegram
went through to New York an
!, nouncing that the whole ground to
l San francisco was now being
/, lpushed rapidly by engineers.
The correspondent then describes
l at length the southwestern system
of 1000 miles, costing for construc-
ton alone $50,000,000; all to the
: Mexican connections and to connec-
= lions with the southwest system in
Texas, and extensions are now build
ing about seven miles per day all
, over the southwest. The system
!. will be finished this year to Laredo.
The line from San Francisco to
: Texas is all covered with engineers,
Z and the moment it strikes FL PaSO,
they will commence laying steel.
Steel will be laid into Mexico.
Speaking more in detail, it will be
built as follows: Into New Orleans
about October 1st, where it has
bought immense terminal facilities
in connection with the barge line
The road to Lerado will probably
get in during September, and the
Texas and Pacific into Ell PaSO some
time in December. 1t is also pro
posed to build a line from San
Francisco east, from the end of the
Utah Southern west; from the end
of the Atlantic and Pacific north
west; and from the end OF the
Texas and Pacific northwest, all at
once. To build these California
lines will take probably eighteen
months, or two years, according
to how fast material can be obtained
1t is calculated to complete this
Mexican line to the City of Mexico
inside of two years. These routes
are all constructed under the four
different construction and improve
ment companies, that build them
for their actual cost and then turn
them over to the companies. The
cost will average about $4,000 a
mile. Gen. G. N. Dodge is atthe head
of all these construction COM
n panies. This system, [ suppose,
8, will have its own outlet by a system
) Of extension about which nothing
= definite has yet been made known
to the public, but which l can eX-
plain to you. This system west Of
: the Rio Grande is an extension of
the Texas Pacific from Ell PaSO
northwest through Silver City and
Prescott or to the Rio Herers, to a
a connection with the Atlantic
and Pacific. These two routes
n combined will then extend north
D west to the Parahanagat valley in
Nevada, where they are joined by
an extension of the Utah Southern,
, branch of the Union Pacific, and
! the three companies will build
trunk line from the Parahnagat
valley, passing near Owens Lake
, to the City of San Francisco, Cal.
The line when completed will
not only leave the Central Pacific
system out in the cold, but it will
leave it without any outlet east and
the U. p. will then have its indie
pendent line to the coast and COM
4 peting line with the G. P.
Yes, but the Southern or Central
Pacific is extending their system
from Ell Paso south, intending to
connect with what is known as the
Pierce system in Texas, at San An
ltOnia. They have bought the Pierce
road from San Antonio to Houston,
the Terry road and the Adams road
from Houston to VermilliOnville,
paying about S54. 900 a mile for a
K road that cost only $4,000 per mile.
That led them into New Orleans.
a What effect do you think this vast
plain of railroad development, COM
l pleted, will have on the commerce
= of the country and the growth Of
the trade centres? Well, 1 think
there is no doubt but what the
t whole wheat and grain crop OF ev-
5 erything west of the Missouri
h river will find am outlet at New
i, Orleans. We expect to take the grain,
every bushel of grain that is raised
IN California, even the north line
to New Orleans and to ship from
. there to Europe. 1t can be done
within sixty days. The land haul
is not so long as it is to-day from
here to New York, and there is the
finest harbor on the gulf at New
/. Orleans. 1t takes six months to go
: around the horn, and how many