Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-09-16
Denver Times Prints an Interest.
ing Story Of a Financial Merger
Being Launched.
GOULD'S LITTLE AGREEMENT.
Signed by All the Family, J. ! Hill,
II. Hyde aud ! Perpont Nor
gan Also Included.

The Denver Times prints an interest
ing story OF a financial combination,
which, 1t Is said, has been formed by
all the Gouds, J. II, Hyde, j. j, Hlll
and j. =. Morgan for the purpose Of
carrying on war against ~. II, Ilarri-
man. The story is as follows.
According to the story related in this
city by u director OF the Colorado Fuel
and Iron company, who has Just ar
rived from New York, the war between
George Gould and II. H. Hartman has
suddenly developed situation very
ominous for Hartman The fuel and
iron company Official declined to be
quoted, but he ala not hesitate to say
that Hartman is 20 be shut out of tho
Mississippi valley territory and headed
of I'm all efforts to reach tidewater on
the Atlantic coast
George Gould and James Hazen HYDE
have Just entered into a treaty with j
j. Hin and j. p. Morgan, the object OF
which IS said TO prevent the long des-
sired merger by Hartman of the Van
derbilt roads and the Union Pacific,
which would give Hartman complete
trauscontinental line from ocean to
ocean. II the treaty IS successful IN
its object, II win Illustrate the pro-
posed merger and bottle Hartman up
at the Missouri river, thus shutting him
out Of Eastern and Middle states bust.
ness.
The conference between Gould, HYDE,
EIill and Morgan IS said, by the Fuel
IV.f L 1. 10
very exciting, and the bitterness against
Hartman shown by Gould was evil
dence that the breach between those
railroad magnates Is OF a deep and last
ing character The burden Of Gould's
song was war TO the knife, and Hyde
seconded him with ON undivided soul
1t Is also said that Morgan and Hill
seemed nothing loath to 20 out with
their knives for Harriman's scalp.
IRONCLAD AGREEMENT
Gould brought with him to the meet
ing an agreement signed by all OF the
Goulds, even the younger brothers and
Miss Helen Gould, and this was signed
by Hin and Morgan, II was an iron-
clad agreement, and It's purpose will be
revealed when the vast railroad and
capitalistic interests Of the multl-mil-
lO0HlIt III
II are found working in countless ways
to accomplish the overthrow OF Harri-
man X
one OF its provisions binds the builders
OF the proposed Western Pacific road, a
Gould line, to use no steel and iron but
that furnished by the Colorado Fuel &
Iron company, a Gould and Rockefel-
Ter concern
Hartman mas heavy interests In
the United States steel trust, and the
trust will furnish no material for the
new road from Salt Lake to San Fran
cisco
Harriman's Union Pacific system has
its eastern terminals a Omaha, Coun-
ell Bluffs ana Kansas city. In handling
traffic eastward OF those points, 1t is
dependent upon traffic agreements with
Chicago g. Northwestern, Chicago, Mil
waukeo & St. Paul and the New York
Central systems are Vanderbilt prop
critics. 1t has been Harriman's dream
to merge with these latter roads, which
would give him a central and partially
Southern transcontlnental lfe from
Boston and New York to san Francis
co. Los Angeles and Portland
SHUT OUT OF NORTH.
Hi and Morgan control the North
ern Pacific and Great Northern roads,
and he IL shut out OF northern territory.
The new Clark road Is a Morgan prop
erty largely and It Is cutting into the
tranlc Of the Union Pacific to Southern
California. In the present combination
II gives the Gould and Rockefeller
roads a through route TO Los Angeles.
Morgan being factor Of sufficient
power 10 keep the Vanderbilt lines from
the proposed merger with Hartman.
when the Western Pacific IL com
plcted the Could and Rockefeller roads
will have a direct cOute to San Fran
cisco IN competition with Hartman.
The Chicago & Northwestern practical
~ covers tho territory II Is In, and the
Lake Shore and New York Central has
the territory eastward OF II largely IN
It's hands. The Gould and Rockefeller
roads como into Denver with the Rock
Island and Missouri Pacific and the
new combination takes the Burlington,
Hi road, out Of Harrlmans infu-
enCe,
In his quarrel with Gould IN which
Hartman cut off tho Denver e Rio
Grande from Pacific coast business and
forced the building OF the Western Pa