The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-02-17
FROM n Y. TO THE COAST.
BIG DEAL WHICH MEANS NEW
TRANsCONTINENTA LINE.
Chicago Adsices Say That n Consol-
fdation of the Different Railroad
Companies Which 60 to Make I'D

a big railroad deal that is In line with
year. and which the wise ones have been
looking for for some time. is now about
completed and means a continuous line OF
railway across the continent from New
York TO the Pacific coast. Last nights
Chicago advices to the Northumberland
say that a consolidation of the different
companies which 40 10 make I'D the Chi
caso Northwestern system has been
definitely decided upon Chief Of the roads
are the Chicago a. Northwestern, the Ere
mont. Elkhorn d Missouri Valley the
chicago, st. Paul. Minneapolis a. Omaha
and the Sioux city 4 Pacific. Together
those lines embrace 1851 miles of road
When the consolidation of ali the roads
In the present Northwestern system has
Deem completed the plans now under con-
sideration win have by no means been
contaminated These consultations Will
be but the solidlfylng of one link I'm a
great chain extended over the entire con-
tinent from the Atlantic 10 the Pacific
once these consultations are out OF the
way. the field will. 1t is believed. be clear
for the further consolidation of the North
western and Union Pacific systems The
two roads are today practically one. All
AFFAIRS relating 10 through business are so
arranged as TO guard the interests and
suit the convenience or each, and the mat
consolidation OF the two roads will in real
ity be more matter Of detail than the
Introduction OF any radical change in the
relationships which now exist between
them. When they become one in name as
they are now in action. the completion OF
the western END OF the chain already al
iuded 10 Will have taken place. and moth
INK VIII remain but to weld il 10 the east
etn end. which has already been formed
by the unification Of the New York Cen
trai and the Lake Shore. The Vanderbilt
main line will then extend from New Nork
70 the Pacific coast. Il may be that by
that time absolute ownership OF the Gem
trial Pacific Will have been secured
Whether 1t Is or not the present rights OF
the Union Pacific over that line are in
aisnably secured.
The Union Pacific by its Short Line ana
q. II n y. connections enters Portland
and the recent revival OF the story that
the Union Pacific would build 10 the
Sound over the grades that are partly in.
owned by the Union Pacific and Great
Northern Jointly. gives the information
much local coloring that Is interesting
1t has been the custom 10 periodically re-
vive the story that the line from the Co.
iumbia river 10 the Sound would be COM
pieted. and recently these stories have
been of such Intense frequency that much
attention has been drawn 10 the rights
of-way. the trestle work and the estab-
iished and filled in grades of what was at
ore time considered one of the most inn
portant railroad enterprise in the North
west This IL particularly true when II
was recently reported that Union Pacific
engineers were again going over the sur
vess 81 the original line and inspecting
the work that has already been done.