Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-09-29
AMBITIONS OF
HARTMAN

The current report that f. IL. Harri'
ma nhas bought a large interest In
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe are found
ed upon the cardinal fact that a big
pool composed largely of English
Hebrews has bought within the last
three years a block of Atchison stock,
mostly common, sufficient to consti.
tute control. The pool operated large
ly through Hartman bankers in this
country, and the purchase wa made
with the concurrence and the assis.
lance OF Il, II, Hartman and his as.
sociates.
The nominal head Of the English
clique is a prominent and titled Jew
who was once connected with the fl
nancing Of the Egyptian loan and
who has been associated with the
Rothschilds in many business enter
prises. When the great foreign bank
ing firm bought heavily into Louis
vile & Nashville many years ago he
was one of the associated partners.
At that time he formed a friendship
with Jacob Schiff which has been
made closer by twenty years Of con-
fidence and friendship.
1t is believed that the Atchison pur-
chase was begun and that the pool
was formed on the suggestion Of Mr..
Schiff, who, it will be remembered,
was also the most intimate adviser
of f. Fl. Hartman in his effort to
save Northern Pacific from the Hill
Morgan clique in 1901.
Back of all this lies the ambition OF
E. III. Hartman. 1t raj early in the
eos that the pet ambition Of this
railroad genius first took definite
\ shape and form. The first step in
it was the purchase of the English
interests in the Union Pacific. 1t
was bought practically in a receiver
ship. The road was in great need
of help. The foreigners were glad
enough to get out Of it anything al
all. 1t had been Systematically rob
bed by its friends and its enemies
and was ~tottering ON the brink Of ruin.
When Hartman took it he re-incar-
mated it. Slowly he worked out sal
walton for it. and with that salvation
came his dream of railroad suprem-
acy. It has been his one and only
ambition from that day TO this. He
is bound to control the tr~anscontinen-
tai railroad bushes of this continent.
He has given his life to the work and
if he lives but a few years longer he
will realize it.
1t has been a hard and bitter fight
against many enemies. With the
Union Pacific alone he worked for
many years. Coils P. Huntington in
those years held the supremacy and
none could dispute it. Hartman had
only to wait and he knew it. He went
ahead slowly building up the Union
Pacific, making its credit strong and
great. Men asked why, as the roa'
grew rich he did not build spur lines,
branches, etc. They found out af-
forwards that it was because he was
piling up a surplus to create a great
and unexampled credit for his main
railroads.&c. company THAI was TO be
the center and the front of the great
est railroad system that the world
has W seen.
The Satna Fe Contra, railway has
filed a decd in the ciuaty clerks Of
flee for record conveying 10 the Rio
Grande and Santa Fe Railway com.
panies in consideration Of $6,65675,
one-half interest in lots 1913, 100, 1876
to 202 In elusive, 233 "a ata inclusive.
PAT, 249, 900 to 237 inclusive. also
fractional lots 166 and 1877 and half
interest in adjoining property more
particularly described In the deed.
This land is that which will be used
in the construction Of a union de.
pot at Saata Fe and is Transferred in
order that all may have an equal
share in the common holdings.
Building Its Own TeIegraphs.
The Northwestern & Pacific railroad
the new "Moffat Short Line" from
Denver, Colorado to Salt Lake City,