The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-25

in this assertion when familiarity is OBJ
tained with the plans of Gould and his
associates which in a wey have here
tofore been clothed with all sorts II
secrecy. tits known that the railway kings
of this country have ben laying their
plans for the past few years to get
system or systems, of railways under
one mana cement from sea to sea and
many extensive plans of many railway
magnates with this end in view are
already being promulgated and pushed
to the most rapid possible conclusion
1t has been the open boast Of the
Goulds that their ocean to ocean line
would be the first one to assume an ex-
istence and there is every evidence in
the possession of men who are in a posi-
ton to know. that these boasts have no1
been idle ones
That Topeka will play its part. and an
important one, on this really first trans
continental line under one management,
has Just bee learned from an authority
that is undisputed 1t marks more
strongly than ever the purpose of the
Goulds through their Missouri Pacific In
terests. to make Topeka one of the most
important places on its lines in rnis Sec
ton of the country. for the existing lines
of the Missouri Pacific. or rather some
of them through Kansas are to play
big part in this road from sea to sea
Already the Missouri Pacific has de-
termined to make Topeka central
point on its north and south line
Coffeyville, where direct connection
will be made with existing lines of the
company on to the gulf ports. And
under the plans which have just come
important a position on this east and
west line from coast to coast And
II is not a question of years and years
before this through line will be
reality It is but a question of two
or three years at the most before 1T
will be an actuality-but two or three
wears when passengers and freight
will be shipped from San Francisco to
New York or to Baltimore Md, a
the head of Chesapeake bay, over
system of railways dominated by the
same interests and with George j.
Gould. as the dominant figure of these
interests.
with the exception of that part of
the big road which under the name OF
the Western Pacific is being built from
Salt Lake City to the Pacific coast, not
a great amount of railroad construc-
ton is necessary to make the line of
the Goulds from sea to sea possfbili- !
~ and a reality
Dan E. cain, who was recently |
made assistant vice president of the !
Denver &, Rio Grande, a Gould prop |
erty said the other day that he had .
been informed that great gangs OF men |
were at work on a dozen different |
from Salt Lake to Frisco and that it |
would be only a short time in railroad
parlance before this line would be
built and in operation
Monster Station at Salt Lake.
Plans have already been made for
> monster station al Salt Lake City
which will be a union station for the
Western Pacific and the Denver & Rio
Irande This station VIII be one of
he important points on the sea to sea
inc. and because Topeka will be the
,enter of the Missouri Pacihc's north
md south line. the chances are that
his city will be the next important
1oint between Denver and St Louis
From Salt Lake City to Denver the
9ueblo & Rio Grande has a direct route
md there it connects with the main
inc of the Missouri Pacific which runs
lcross Kansas through Greeley. Wichita.
scott. Lane Ness. Rush. Barton, Rice,
Mcpherson. Dickinson, and Morris and
hen on direct east through that par
ocular tier of counties to Ottawa and
where it shoots up to Kan
as Cit..
Use Council Grove Line.
Now the proposition is that from
council Grove to Topeka the Missouri
oacifc will get traffic rights over the
inc of the Topeka e Southwestern
which w. L. Taylor is promoting and
Which is to be financed by the banking
irm of I.ampreeht Bros. & Co, of New
York city. 1t is known that the Mis-
ouri Pacific has line surveyed al
eady from Topeka to Tonganoxie
where it will join with an existing Mis-
ourf Pacific line direct to Kansas City.
his route from Council Grove over the