The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-04-30
FULLER BID
IS ACCEPTED

concluded from Paec IL
Pacific. It means, too, that when this
is accomplished the Pennsylvania
Morgan Vanderbilt interests, who so
tremendously divided among them the
railway systems and territory OF the
Eastern states in 1893. will have to
reckon with a power they little con-
sidered at that time. The Gould IN
terests have plainly stated that the sort
coal trade Is one of their objects IN
coming through to the coast, and to
gain this trade they will unsettle not a
little the plans by which the Pennsyl-
vania, with the Baltimore and OHIO,
Chesapeake and Ohio and Norfolk ana
Western systems, was left in undisturb-
ed possession of this enormously rich
traffic.
Wabash to Enter Pittsburg.
Within a short time the Wabash sys-
tom will have gained entrance to Pitts
burg through it's Pittsburg, Carnegie
and Western road, which Is now build
ing from Jewett, o., a connecting point
of the Wheeling and Lake Erie,
Wabash controlled road. once entrance
Is gained to that city, said by many to
be the greatest freight producing centre
in the world. it is believed the Goulds
will work for a short route across Penn
sylvania to connection with the
Western Maryland, near Shippensburg.
With the exception of reports that re-
cent surveying parties, said to be in the
employ of the Wabash, have been going
over such a route. there have been no
other overt acts to indicate that such
plans are being carried out.
connection with the Western Mary
land, according to statements by the
Fuller-Goud representatives, will be
made with the Wabash system. as fol-
lows: From Cherry's Run, the west
ern terminus of the Western Maryland,
road is to be built to connect with the
West Virginia Central and Pittsburg at
Cumberland, Md. This latter extends
to Belington, near the centre of West
Virginia, from which point line is
now being constructed to reach Pales-
tine, thirty-five miles from Parkers-
burg. These two points are already
connected by the Little Kanawha rail-
road, which is owned by parties repre-
senting the Wabash interests. From
Parkersburg, W. Va, to GAINESVILLE, o.,
q road is to be built by an Ohio COM
pany, chartered by Wabash represent
posed, extend from Baltimore. on the
Atlantic coast, to GAINESVILLE. o. At the
latter point begins the Wheeling and
Lake Erie, under Wabash control, and
runs as far northwest as Toledo. where
the Wabash system proper begins. and
extends west clear to the Missouri
river. When these connections are made
the Wabash will he the only through
line under one control that extends
from the Eastern coast across that
river as all the big trunk lines now
stop at the Mississppi-a Rubcon. so
to speak, which they dare not, or at
least do not cross.
From the Missouri West.
AS to the westward extension of
this system from tho Missouri, a
dispatch from Chicago says:
r. c. Kerens. of St. Louis spent yes
terday in Chicago in company with
Senator Kearns, of Utah, and Perry
Heath, also now of Utah. They con-
ferred concerning the affairs of the Los
Angeles-Salt Lake railway, which they
are building, with Senator Clark, of
Montana.
Senator kearns, in an interview,
confirmed the recent reports that the
Goulds have become interested with
Senator Clark in this enterprise, and
that the outcome of the alliance would
be new transcontinental line The
new system will be composed of Sem
ator Clark's Los Angeles road, of the
Goulds' Missouri and Wabash, and of
the lines built and to be built from
GAINESVILLE to Baltimore"