The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1881-08-27
4 GREAT STRUGGLE.

CHICAGO, August IS. "A Boston special
says: The strain on the relations between
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy peo-
pie and Jay Could, is more than is likely
to be borne, and there is good reason for
expecting war along the great railroads
of the West beside which the contest
among Eastern trunk lines will dwindle
into insignifcance. In the agreement
last year 1t was stipulated that the Union
Pacific and Wabash should keep out
the territory of the Chicago Burlingtonf
and Quincy in Nebraska. The Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy agreed not
to extend it's line to Denver, and
and the Wabash agreed to keep out of
the territory of the Chicago Burlington
and Quincy in Iowa, save that these two
roads were to extend the Missouri, Iowa
and Nebraska road jointly, through
Southern Iowa to Omaha during the
Summer. The Wabash, in violation of
this agreement, has built into Des
Moines, and this the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy considered violation of the
compact of 1880, but only grumbled. A
few weeks ago the blood of the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy managers was
again stirred by the organization of the
Company to extend the Missouri Pacific
to the west bank of the Missouri and
into Nebraska the territory of the Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy. The Bur-
lington notified the Gould Company that
they considered that this was in violation
of the agreement of 1880. Gould said
that he could not so regard it, and he
proposed himself to build the West Shore
Road ntr Nebraska. The Burlington
managers have, after long conferences,
formally notified the Union Pacific and
Wabash Companies that the compact
having been twice broken, the Burling-
ton and Quincy Company would act in
dependently in regard to its extension as
its own interests dictated. This, OF
course, meant nothing less than an i'm
mediate extension to Denver. Gould
then notified the Burlington Company il
it built into Denver he would immedi.
ately extend the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas from Quincy to Chicago, parable
with the Chicago, Burlington and Quin
cy's Illinois lines. The Burlington mer
replied with threat to build mile il
Kansas for every mile Gould built il
Nebraska. Then the Directors of th'
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
Company, the largest feeder of the Bur
lington, began to inquire of the Burling
ton men if they desired to exchange al
business the Atchson and Union Pacif
Companies furnished them for bushes
they would have to fight for from Denver
and, finally, President Strong entere
the written protest of the Atchison to a
extension of the Burlington toward Der
Yer. Thus the matter stood a few dav
ago, when another complication arose b
reason of Gould signing a preliminar
agreement with representatives of tn
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, for
union under this company of the Texas
Pacific, Atchison and Union Pacific ii
terests, as against the Central and Soutl
ern Companies. Forthwith Huntingto
pledged thirty or forty millions to til
extension of the Central Pacific eastward
parallel with the Union Pacific, if tl
Union Pacific interest was to make All
war with his lines Meanwhile the De
yer and Rio Grande was at war with II
Union Pacific over the Colorado bushes
Now comes the rumors of propose
alliance between the Chicago, Burlingt,
and Quincy, Denver and Rio Grande al
Central Pacific roads as against Gou
and the Union Pacific. Nothing yet
consummated, but negotiations iowa
+. this alliance are opening. How far the
negotiations shall go will depend up
the stage to which the storm now thre,
ening shall progress.