The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-21
Plans Perfected Whereby Tt VIII Ex-
tend from Atlantic to Pacific.

Plans have zen perfected for some
time for the extension OF the Gould
system of roads so that it will extend
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. These
plans are being slowly but surely
worked put Notwithstanding numerous
reports to the effect that pressure
brought to bear on George J.. Gould
by roads in trunk line territory to
abandon his purposes has been sue
cessful.
There is not only no reason for be-
lieving thai Mr.. Gould has
this great undertaking, but there is
plenty of evidence that he proposes to
carry it out n that he hopes to be
able within ten years to ride in his
own car from Atlantic to the Pacific
ocean over lines controlled by himself
and his family The placing of $780,
600. 600 bonds at 80 per cent. to con-
struct the Western Pacific line which
will connect with Mr.. GouId'S at
Salt Lake City and give him terminals
in San Francisco is sufficient indica-
ton of Gould intention in that quarter
of the country. The new line and
branches will consist Of about 1900
miles of track, and will strike impor-
tant points in California and open up
a great lumber and mining territory.
The new road, it is predicted, will be
better constructed than any DAD to
the Pacific coast, and will have the
advantage from the first of all the
traffic from the Gould roads and other
lines which can be controlled in it's
interest. Mr.. Gould has been in close
enough relations with the Hartman
lines to sit in the Union Pacific board,
but there will not be any intimate con-
nection between his road and The
Southern or Union Pacific, although
Union Pacific board while he is paral-
leling the old Central Pacific line has
caused comment in western railroad
circles.
Mr. cou1d,s 0ronosaI To 90 70 the
Atlantic coast has been the bugbear of
the railroad situation for several years.
Many prominent capitalists and rail-
road men have e~ndeavored to con-
vince Mr.. Gould that he adopted a
wrong IRIS in going east, but they
have not been able up to this time to
change his mind or his tactics, though,
Notwithstanding the failure to i'm
press him last summer and on former
occasions, they have not given up their
notion that Mr.. Gould can be brought
into the great railroad family of the
east. In railroad circles it is not be-
lieved that he will abandon his original
plan. He is in Pittsburg, and by the
expenditure of more money and time
he will be able to get control of a GER
tain share of the tonnage of that dis
trict. but the construction of his lines
and h development of the traffic will
occupy years.
That part of the line east of the
Allegheny mountains Mr. Gould a
committed himself to open and oper-
ate as a trunk line A new line will
be constructed, and if the road Is to
compete with the existing tidewater
trunk lines. that portion of the line
already constructed will have to be re-
built. It is considered a matter of
course that this line will be construct
ed and operated by Mr.. Gould as a
part of his system, though, as has
been said, some powerful people be-
lieve they can induce him to adopt a
plan more in with the ter
ritorial and other rights of existing
lines.