El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-13
AND STILL THEY COME.
Another Big Trust to Be Formed
Railroads in 1t.

| HdllI OduS LII H.
| The Cleveland Leader publishes the
| following which will be read with
great interest here:
According to a high official OF the
Vanderbilt lines in this city, the de-
| tails of big railway trust which is to
| include all the lines between Boston
and Chicago are now being worked out
and the consolidation may be complet-
ed within the next few weeks. The
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indiana and
Illinois was in line with the plans for
the consolidation which has been in
contemplation. It is not the purpose
to have all the lines under one manage
ment exactly, but to appOrtiOn them
among the Pennsylvania company, the
Vanderbilt interests and the Baltimore
and Ohio company when it shall have
been reOrganized, giving to each sys-
the best advantage. The first ink
ling of the scope of the plan
came when the Vanderbilts an
nounced the other day that they
controlled all the roads in New Eng
land. with the exception of the Boston
and Albany, with which they now have
q traffic agreement and which they ex-
now control all the trunk lines between
Buffalo and New York with the excep-
tion of the Erie, the Lsckswanna and
the Lehigh Valley. The Erie, it is
said, will come under the control of
the Vanderbilts through the in
fuence of the Morgans,
while the Lehigh Valley may
go to the Baltimore and Ohio. The
Leckawanha is now operated in con-
derbilt line. West of Buffalo the
Vanderbilts have the Lake Shore, the
Nickel Plate. the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie, the Big Four, the Michigan
Central, with the Flint and Pere
Marquette, that is soon to be absorbed,
will give line in Michigan.
The Big Four west is to be operated
in connection with the Monon. recently
purchased by the Morgans and the Gin
Hamilton and Dayton is ex-
pected to be absorbed soon. The Lake
Erie and Western, acquired by the
is expected to give the Van
derbilts line from Sandusky to Peo
ria, Ill. These roads, with the Hook
ing Valley. the Ohio Central, the Col
um bus, Sandusky and Hooking and the
Detroit, Lima and Northern will about
The Pennsylvania, which has an i'm
mense system already under it's control,
is expected to acquire the Cleveland,
Akron and Colum bus, with which it
has traffic arrangement at present,
the Wheeling and Lake Erie, the
the Canton and Southern
and Ohio Southern as we'll as miner
lines. The Baltimore and Ohio is
allotted the Lehigh Valley
(possibly) the Cherry Creek road,
which with the Philadelphia and
would form a through
line from Pittsburg to New York; the
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Civ
ing a line to Cincinnati and ST. Louis |
the Pittsburg and Western, the Gle
velanj Terminal and Valley and the |
Northern Ohio, opening short lines
through from Pittsburg to Cleveland
and Chicago, as we'll as the Cleveland,
and Wheeling.
These are the outlines only of the
plan, which is now being worked out
but those who have been watching the
changes in the railroad world do not
doubt that it will be carried through
The purpose of the consolidation Is
to be to prevent rste-cutting and to &C
complish practically what the joint
traffic association was organized to
do.