The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-07-24
GOULDS VS.. HUNTINGTON.
Rival Railroad interests that viii Help De-
yelOp Texas.
A LINE FROM CHICAGO 10 TEXAS PORTS
II wouId Compete with the southern
Pacific Compnny--Some Competi-
tive Railroad building.
Especial to The Post.)

New York, July 2S.--The Goulds are
uuquestionably fighting the Huntingtons.
This fact has become apparent to New
promises to be an interesting enc AS
stated in The Post some weeks ago Jay
Goulds successors have developed a plan
for making through line from at least
the Missouri river AMI che Northwest to
the gulf, with probable affiliations that
would carry freight over single line
from Chicago to Texas ports. In this
the Missouri. Kansas and Texas. the
Texas and Pacific, and International and
Great Northern are t. ula~ a prom nent
part Such scheme, however, was looked
upon with decided iisapprcval by the only
company that has been able to carry
goods from one ocean to another on its
own tracks and vessels The possibiliy
of taking freight from the great agr!aul-
tural section to carriers OF transatlantic
matter by a rival interest awake the
Southern Pacific company to renewed &C
tivlty.
The Rockefeller interests are linked
with the Goulds, it is confidently be-
lieved here, and several things Lave oc-
cured that show the opposition and an
tagonism that exists between these mag
mates and the Huntingtons. Much OF u
surprise to those interests came the an
nourcement a few days ago tbat the
Merchants association of New Yoek had
gained concessions IN the matter Of rates
for the fall buyer at the hands of the
Southern Pacific company. An cficef OF
the company stated fortnight ago that
one line had partially promised to pro-
pose TO its passenger association re-
duction In favor pf Texas merchants.
Which road this was Hould not be re-
yealed, and when it was anneunced tLal
the sunset route has shown generosity
in the matter a motive was instinctiyeiy
looked for. The eXplandtion mas appeareu'
The Southern Pacific finds IL necessary 10
fight the Gould lines, W1iSn are olsllne-
lively Southwestern roads, AID II mas
/ found a chance to do so III tho clpoI
tunity to carry passengers az re'1eeu
| fares TO lines reaching New lolh' "Nu
also to receive the benent Oh We
nounce6 determination OF the New loiA
association 40 route the freight OF the
huyers taking adv III stse oil It's rate pilr
ileges. and which 1t Is absolutely 20 eoh'
tro by lines friendly to New YORK J.,
The Two great railway sytter'A are "
short arrayed against each othel vA a 80
soil and have olready cuns'tpe'tN -.
lent lines and promised scNel"' ,'o,
which. under ii.fcreat eircull's'"Tio W.,
would not have been oHhS ~ a.a IL
,,bilr 20 come. so long us lhey arc a
Ntrosition it is likely 10 prove al
opi tn Texas aud to those h"9
rarsant with the financial position ~
.Iaso nariies 1t is hard To- pelAe''
tbev can be brought together NOV,
D,,ring the last session Of the - -
,rieia,nre the Huntingtons .obtainer W
'ieh,s TO acquire and operate the
1s,'n5 road which was at that tl.ns
- ,inc running from Dallas TO Seus,
VIVIAN the law allowing TINS Went ~ -
sect the southern Pacihc pesu" ,oar
tarsion Of the Texas ana new 80
railway from RoCkhnd anu at9o 49,
| Cedar. making thereby ihIuus" 80
from Dallas to the coast nv
80 ,uicl, 10 follow by gaining a cohcef
sion from the State the en"i'ei
Calvert and Brazos railroad ana beBs
lhnildinp from Lewis south on the Inter
natinnoI and Great Northern which, "ne
Ultimately completed, will reach Houston
The road is also to be Immediately eN
landed tn Fort Worth. Such roul
trayerses among other sections u
rich valley of Brazos, the greatest cotto
bolt in the whole South. This line
| distinctively a Gould enterprise al
will give a new and distinct line b
tween those points now touched by IN
Houston and Texas Central
The activity in road building will,
all probability, result in the constructo
of the long looked for rails leading
Brownsville, which has ever been pointe
out as the most important point in tn
country without road. The King prof.
erty is evidently destined TO such de'
ecration as trains and box cars imply
The financial strength % the opposiu
interests In such a construction Is mo
important consideration. for even anon
railroad owners there are degrees
mower. and while George Gould and h
family are about equal TO Coils r Hun
ington in wealth, the addition of II
Rockefeller hundreds OF millions won
far outweigh the influence OF the Soutf
ern Pacific owners.
Here In New York the idea that IL
Standard Oil people are about to emit
actively into the railroad world is fore
gone conclusion and the huctuations
stocks OF the properties affected are
evidence. Altogether It Is more than lik
ly to develop into one OF the largest wal
that railroad invested capital has "
seen, and so long as II is war Tex
will he benefited As TO the posslbili
OF an ultimate actual condemnation
what Is in reality almost the compile
railway system OF the state which, II nj
thwarted, would be the inevitable resul
remains in the. hands OF Texas alor
to prevent