The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-01-25
PEE GEE TO CHICAGO,
AN ALLIANCE WITH THE BURLING-
TON Is ON FOOT.
Through Passenger Trnins from the
Windy City to the Gnif-Further
Extensions Not Yet Planned.
Kansas CITY Star.

Kansas City Star.
! The Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gull
railway is seeking to gain entrance to Chi
| cago. and II is expected that a deal will
be made to use the Burlington tracks out
of Quincy, III.
A contract for the use of the Burlington
tracks by the Pittsburg and Gulf between
Quincy and Chicago has been drawn up aiid
Is under consideration by President Still
we'll, General Manager iillham and the al
torneys of the Plttsburg and Gulf.
The contract calls for thu right of the
fittsburg and Gulf to use the burlington
tracks for freight and passenger trains be-
tween Chicago and Quincy. Officials of
both roads say that the deal has not been
oonsummated, but 1t is almost certain that
1t will so through From Quincy the Pitts
burg and Gulf will gain entrance to Kansas
City over the tracks OF the OMAHA Kansas
City and Eastern and the Kansas City and
Northern connecting lines, both of which
are part of the Fittsbnrg and Gulf system
ard are owned and controlled by the Still
we'll interests. Trains are now running on
the Omaha, Kansas City ana Eastern be-
tween Omaha, Neb.. and Quincy. III. The
construction of the Kansas City and North
ern Connecting railway'Morth from Kansas
City is being pushed rapidly and Junction
Will soon be made with the Omaha, Kansas
City and Eastern at Pattonsburg, Mo- This
VIII then complete the Pittsburg and Gulf
railroad system from Omaha anu Quincy
through Kansas City to Port Arthur on the
Gulf of Mexico.
The next move will be to gain entrance
In nyn fhn 1tny fnn and rft Ia
that an outlet to the Atlantic seaboard by
the construction of a branch line from
Quincy to Beardstown. H., where con-
nection will be made with the Baltimore
and Ohio system.
When the deal with the Burlington Is
completed the Pttsburg and Gulf proposes
to run through freight and passenger trains
from Chicago to Port Arthur on the Gulf
of Mexico.
Further extensions Of the Pittsburg ana
Gulf have not yet been planned, hut a close
traffic arrangement with the Chicago Great
Western is planned whereby the latter road
will acquire an outlet to the Gulf o. Mex
leo. President Sticiney Of the Chicago
Great Western" says a Chicago newspa-
per. has recently visited Galy6s'on and
Port Arthur to get acquainted with the
conditions existing there. He has come
back with the firm conviction that his road
can make more money by shipping grain
from points along his line to Kansas CITY,
and thence by the Pitssburg and Gulf to
Port Arthur than by shipping It to Chicago
He can get longer haul out OF the grain
from Des Moines and other Iowa points
to Kansas City than by shipping II TO chi
cago. and at Kansas City he gets the pen
eft Of the low rates made by the Kansas
CITY Pittsburg and Gulf road to the quit.
President Stickney is close observer. AMI
he could not fail to see that an alliance
with the Pittsburg and Gulf would give
him a great advantage over all the other
Iowa lines"
The alliance with the burlington Is what
the Pittsburg and Gulf is after and sucn
Arrangement Is favored by the Burllnst.h.
because It Is anxious for a Gulf OF Mexico
outlet -