Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1905-06-12

| those cltles WITHOUT chang x cars
over track owned and conf Jlled b.
single family. You would leay,
| Baltimore by the Western Maryland
then take the West Virginia Central
the Wheeling and Lake Erie, the Wa
bash. the Missouri Pacific and tn.
Denver d Rio Grande to Salt Lake
City. and from there the Western Pa
cific to Oakland
The latter road does not exist ex
cept on map that hangs in the Of
flee of E. T. jeffrey. president of tbs
Denver d Rio Grsude system, but
The contracts have been let, the ter
mlnals at Oakland have been secured
and Mr.. jeffrey and Virgil c. Bogue
The chief engineer, have been at WORK
Tor three years surveying route. Sc
curing right Of way and preparing
for construction, which will actually
begin within a few weeks Mr.. Gould
has negotiated $4,000, 900 worth OF
bonds, although the engineers caicu.
late that 339 900 900 will build the
track. A. II. Calef, treasurer of the
various Gould properties, has the
money in his till, and everything is
ready to carry the enterprise through
in the most approved North Ameri-
can fashion. When the Western Pa.
cifc is completed 1t win bring the to-
tai mileage of the Gould roads I'D to
1000 miles, which, believe. will be
longer than any other system. The
Rock Island company now controls
over $4,000 miles. the greatest mile.
age under one management
II is $50 miles from Salt Lake City
To Oakland by the route selected for
he Western Pacific. crossing the
Sierra Nevada mountains by the
Beckwith pass, which is 1880 feet
lower than the crossing of the Cen
trail Pacific The distance Is about
the same as that of the Central Pa.
ciiic. There will not be more than
twenty-five or thirty miles differ
ence. which may be determined by
the choice of routes in two or three
places. There is only one tunnel,
through which the trains will pass
under the summit of the pass about
900 feet above the sea, The maxi
mum grade win be 529 feet to the
mile, while the maximum on the
Central Pacific is 10 feet The
track will be laid with eighty.fve-
pound rails, and the curves and grad.
tents will be reduced to modern scale.
which is much less than those OF
roads which were built ten or fifteen
years ago. The Gould people will
have great advantage in economy
OF construction. They expect to
build and equip the Western Pacific
for not more than $4,000 mile,
while the Central Pacific which was
built thirty-five years ago, cost 5000.
900 a mile.
The work of construction will be In
charge of Virgil c. Bosue. the chief
engineer. who has been building rail-
roads in the mountains all his life
and recently laid out the wonderful
road which David H. Moffat Of Den.
yer is building through the Rockies.
This will give ban Francisco a third
railroad TO the East and make eight
lines.
The Goulds are doing a great deal
of building this year, extending the
Western Maryland and the West vir-
eina Central to tidewater, so as to
connect Baltimore with Pittsburg.
Chicago with st. Louis; extending
the Iron Mountain down the west
bank of the Mississippi TO New Or.
leans and building from the Texas
Pacific at Natcbez across to Mobile
and Pensacola This, when their
plans are finished, will give them
outlets to the Pacific at San Fran.
cisco. the Gulf OF Mexico at Calves.
ton. New Orleans, Mobile and Pepsa-
Until recently George Gould was a
director of all the Hartman proper
Union and Southern Pa
cities, the Oregon Short Line, the Pa!
citic Mail, etc, and Mr.. Hartman was
a director in most Of the Gould prop.
critics for the same reason. The in.
terests Of the two came together at
several places. The Texas Pacific
Joined the Southern Pacific at FL
Paso, the Missouri Pacific connected
with the Union Pacific at Kansas
City and Denver, the International
and Great Northern connected with
The Southern Pacific at San Antonio.
and the Denver 4 Rio Grande West
ern turned its freight over TO the
Central Pacific at Ogden. But when
he completed his arrangements to
parallel the Central Pacific from Salt
Lake City to San Francisco Mr..
Gould resigned from the Hartman
directorates and Mr.. Hartman gave
up his share OF tne responsibility OF
tue management Of the Gould lines.
1t was the natural thing to do. There
is no i'll feeling whatever on either
side.
ST. PETERSBURG. June Sit
would appear that II the Japanese
were not TOO harsh in their terms
that peace is reasonably certain. Tne
earnest efforts OF President Roosevelt
and the German emperor aave had
heir effect and the cars family
have had an elaborate meeting on the
subject, and while personally desir-