Gunnison news-champion., 1906-05-18
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.voas repor,er the, plsss wess oolD
aud MAPS drswa ~he~sby thss Aisi-
sson - ~ be oa tue main trassseun-
tsRestsl Could line ke<sesa $3.50
aud Grand Jsactioa the youAe -
he shortened n..sriy hfty unsIss -
tunnelias part Of Marshall y,e~s, CO.
ting of Cerro hif, making sAass
tunnels aud pattine in nee hs,Aess
below Delta. etc. The road Gill -
made broad gage up 10 MosssuD
ard probably b. the Ganaison tsa-
nel tins wear Next season We 80
likely to see At 10 sapinero or GWn.
nIsen and IA another year or two
over the divide.
Some idea of the great tra~sconti-
mental system which the GoaId nil
hons are constructing may be elesRaA
from the following extract from ~
railroad column II the Pueblo Chief
tain:
Official announcements has beea
mads by the Denver X Rio Grsade
company that at meeting Of The
stock holder. OF tine Rio GraaAe
Western, which is part of the Rio
Graude system, held last week in
Salt Lake CIfy, an appropriation Of
nearly SJiD.bD WAS made for the
construction If 30 mile extensios
# the Rio Grande Western from
Salt Lake City To Garfield Beach, 10
handle ore shipments to the smelter
/ that Is being erected there at caet
of : .oo0, 600 and which will have .
capacity Of 5000 tons a month.
Representatives of the Could in
/ terests will determine the final Con-
Meeting link in the Gould transcoa
tinental railroad system as soon ~ .
route shall have been obtained tn
connect the Wabash at Pittsburn
with the Wesiern Mary lsaa in Weea
Virginia. There is break Of on'y
100 miles in the route from Balti-
more to San Francisco, as contract s
have already been awarded for con
structing from Salt Lake City To the
Pacific coast A short line from a
point near Pittsburg down to a
point in West Virginia, ON the
Western Maryland, will close this
one hundred and fifty mile gap IN
the right way, and indications prom
ise that the Gould interests will soon
be able to make definite announce
ment to this effect
All the eastern parts Of the Guuld
system are controlled by the Wabash
Thus with this gap closed, the Wa.
bash will extend from Baltimore tC
PIttsburg and from Buffalo and
Plttsbnrg TO Toledo. Chicago, st
Louis, Kansas City, Des Moines and
Omaha Through traffic arrange
ments with the Minneapolis and st.
Louis, it will also touch St Paul and
Minneapolis That Geo. j. Gould
may have additional plans for the
Wabash is suggested by the fact
that some of his advisers have drawn
his Allegation to a means of bringing
the Wabash on to New York City by
wav Of Buffalo.
The Gould transcontinental system
will be greater than its name, and
probably IA greater force than its ag
gregate length of 10000 miles might
imply. 1t will not only stretch across
the continent from Baltimore, and
perhaps Philadelphia, to San Fran
cisco, but will touch the Great Lake.
at Chicago, the Gulf of Mexico at
New Orleans and Galveston, and the
Mexican boundary at Laredo and Fl
Paso.
The Gould system includes the
Western Maryland, the Wabash, the
Missouri Pacific, the Iron Mountain,
the Denver and Rio Grande, the Rio
Grande Western, the Western Pa
cifc, the Texas and Pacific and
Great Northern. Their combined
length is 1000 miles.
The Missouri Pacific and Iron
Mountain, the Texas and Pacific aud
the international and Great North
ern form the arteries of the south
western part of the system. st.
Louis is the gateway for all the east
ern, western. northern and south
western lines Of the whole Gould
system.
The southwestern lines run from
St Louis to Memphis, New Orleans,
Galveston. Dallas, Fort Worth and