The San Francisco call., 1906-12-23

where they're plentiful to where
they're needed. Railroading is
merely doing marketing on mammoth
scale.
Tracks link city to city. The science
Of the game is to connect important
towns by the shortest route, and at
the same time to tap the most produc-
tive intervening country.
Railroads are built for two purposes
to get q share of the freight and pas
senger business that is already there
end to promote the growth and devel-
opment OF districts, communities, ma
tural resources, industries and enter
prises that viii make for yet more
freight and more passengers in the
future.
Each road IN reaching out from it's
original center must eventually meet
others In tine they become connect
&c snc consolidated They pass TO the
control Of 2 corporation that then op-
crates the various lines with one set
ot executive officers. It IS cheaper
10 maintain one set than several.
With groups of consolidated lines
scattered over the country, great anan-
ciers begin to figure how TO unite e
whole series and bring them under the
control cf e single directing power
MAKING = RAILWAY SYSTEM
Connecting lines merged into uni
IS a railroad system.
Public curiosity was aroused more
than two years ago by the report that
surveyors were seeking a new railway
route through the Sierra into Califor-
MIA After a while It became known
that the newcomer was to be called the
Western Pacific. OF itself. a western
slope road reaching over to San Fran
cisco had no great significance. Where
was its other end to be? How could
st become a formidable competitor of
the Southern Pacific and of the Santa
Fe unless it developed transcontinental
connections The promoters were non
communicative. They We're quietly
seeking rights of way at reasonable
prices.
Gradually surmise reached convic-
tion- This new road between Salt Lake
and the Golden Gate was to be another
arm Of the great Gould System
Now, just what is the Gould System?
In the east the Gould System op-
crates TO the iron and steel industries
Of Pennsylvania In the south it goes
through the cotton and the rice fields
Of Texas To the northward it skirts
Lake Erie on the Canadian side and
has for one Of its terminals Chicago
with her extensive packing houses and
grain markets. In the middle west it
touches the manufacturing cities, where
furniture and farming implements and
many OLl6E IllnkS are maze, and II
connects those factories with the splen-
did hardwood timber region of Ar
kansas. On the Mississippi and the
Missouri il reaches the great packing
houses at st. Louis and Kansas City
and links these marts with the corn
belt of Kansas In Colorado and Utah
II taps the rich mining and agricultural
districts And now, with its final
western extension, # is to put all these
diversified industries into direct rail
connection with California and her
enormous supplies of fresh, dried and
canned fruits, of vegetables and wine
and lumber, all of which will find a
ready market somewhere along the
lines Of the Gould System
CONSOLIDATION OF s RAILROADS
Counting an eastern extension
now being built to close a 6fty-nfle
gap between Pittsburg and Baltimore
and counting this western reach
of 740 miles now being made from
Salt Lake to San Francisco, the Gould
System will total approximately 10000
miles of track.
The eight big roads comprising the
completed part of the Gould System are
the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
the Missouri Pacific Railway. the Texas
and Pacific Railway, the International
and Great Northern Railroad, the st.
Louis Iron Mountain and Southern
Railway, the Wabash Railroad the
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway,
, Western Maryland, West Virginia Gen.
tral and the Wabash-Pittsburg Ter
minal Railway.
The Rio. Grande System, with its
branches. extends from Ogden, Utah on
the west TO Pueblo. Colorado, on the
east, and to Santa Fe, New Mexico, on
the south Like a gridiron, it's tracks
comprehensively cover the western and
southern parts of Colorado with three
north-and-south and three east-and-
west lines. The main parts are the
Rio Grande Western. the Denver and
Rio Grande and the Rio Grande South
ern, and each one has its branches
These lines also pass through Grand
Junction Glenwood Springs aud Den
YER
MARKETS FOR CALIFORNIA FRUITS
Utah and Colorado are mineral States
They produce gold, silver, lead, copper
and coal The mining communities are
or can be made large consumers Of
California dried and canned fruits, and
of California timber. In Utah alone
during the year 1905 the gold, silver,
lead. copper and coal mines yielded
SIS. .60S.000 And the principal mining
districts-Bingham first Park City, and
then Tintic, are reached by the Gould
lines. The Salt Lake Valley is rapidly
bcocc,ing tie greatest smelling center
in the world At Garfield, Utah. on the
shore or the Great salt Lake, the
American Smelling and Refining Com
pany has a plant with a caraciry OF
5000 tons OF ore day, and the Utah
Copper Company and the Bingham Con-
solidated Mining Company are each
erecting smelters that will have a COM
bined capacity of $4,000 tons of ore
a day. These three huge smelling
concerns, with their aggregate daily
capacity of $4,000 tons OF ore, are
reaching out for more than Utah
business. They will take ore from the
Nevada mining towns and from the
other intermountain districts, and they
viii come into direct competition with
the smelters of the Pacific Coast
Coal is found in large quantities all
~vs- Utah The possibilities of her coal