The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-14
GOuld's Observation-Disclosures
No Longer a Dream.
Stretching From Coast to Coast
and From Lakes to Gulf.
ONLY $50 MILE GAP.
This Is From Pittsburg to
Western Maryland Road.
Gossip and Matters Of Interest
in Railroad Circles.

Representatives of the Gould interests
will determine the final connecting link
in the Gould transcontipental railroad
system as soon as a route shan have
been obtained to connect the Wabash
at Pittsburg with the Western Mary
land in West Virginia There is a break
of only one hundred and fifty miles IN
the route from Baltimore to San Fran
cisco, as contracts have already been
awarded for constructing from salt
Lake City to the Pacific coast. A short
line from q 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
Of way, and indications promise that
the Gould interests will soon be able to
make a definite announcement to this
effect
All the eastern parts of the Gould sys-
tenn are controlled by the Wabash.
Thus. with this gap closed, the Wabash
will extend from Baltimore to Pittsburg
ard from Buffalo and Pittsburg to To-
Iedo, Chicago st. Louis, Kansas City,
Des Moines and Omaha. Through
traffic arrangements with the Mime
apolis & st. Louis, it will also touch St.
III anu NlALAIlCd POllS- LAAell NNCOi &c D.
Gould may have additional plans for
the Wabash is suggested by the fact
that some Of his advisers have drawn
his attention 20 a means Of bringing
the wabash on to New York city from
Buffalo.
The Gould transcontinental system
will be greater than its name, and prob
ably a mightier force than its aggre-
gate length OF 10000 miles might imply
It will not only stretch across the con
tinent from Baltimore, and perhaps
Philadelphia, to San Francisco, but viii
touch the Great Lakes at Chicago. the
Gulf of Mexico at New Orleans and
Galveston. and the Mexican boundary
at Laredo and FL Paso.
The Gould syteTn includes the West
ern Maryland, the Wabash, the Mis-
souri, Pacific the hon Mountain, the
Denver & Rio Grande, the Rio Grande
Western the Western Pacific, theTexas
& Pacific, and the International &
Great Northern. Their combined length
is 1000 miles.
The Missouri Pacifo and Iron Noun
tain, the Texas & Pacific, and the IN
ternational & Great Northern from the
arteries of the Southwestern part or
the system. st. Louis IS the gateway
for all the eastern, western, northern
and southwestern lines of the whole
Gould system.
These southwestern lines run from
St Louis to Memphis, New Orleans,
Galveston. Dallas, Fort Worth ana II
Paso. and from St Louis, Memphis,
Nv orleans and Galveston to Kansas
CITY. Omaha. Pueblo and Denver Ky
connections with the Denver & RIO
Grande and the Rio Grande western
the system is carried out to santa + e
Salt Lake City and Ogden
The Western Pacific IS the last INK
10 the Pacific coast Surveys nave
been made for the route from Salt Lake
CITY to san Francisco, and CONTRACTS
for building have been awarded 10 the
Utah Construction company, q MoIIhoi
CORPORATION of Salt Lake City
The main line will be $50 miles long
The route, as decided upon by the
roads engineers. will be as follows;
Salt Lake City to Tulasco, New, cross
ing the Salt lake; Tulasco to Pallsade
ana VVfnnenlucca New; Winnemucca
70 Cameron and Marysville, Cal;
MarvsvilIe to Sacramento Sascra-
mento to Stockton. and Stockton 10
San Francisco.
ed the Hartman lines will have a
strong competitor. Whlie the Goulu
road viii be about ninety-s seven miles
longer than the Hartman lines, 1t VIII
have the lower grade.
The strategy of the Gould enter
prise may be outlined best by showing
the routes:
Baltimore to Pittsburg; Buffalo and
Pittsburg to Chicago. st. Louis, Kansas
CITY. Des Moines and Omaha; Omaha
to Pueblo. Denver. Salt Lake city and
Ogden; Salt Lake City to Santa Fe, and
salt Lake City to San Francisco
chicago St Louis and Kansas City
to Memphis Little Rock. New Orleans,
Galveston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Laredo
and e. Paso.
From the Atlantic coast. at Balti-
more, to the Pacific coast, at San Fran
From Pittsburg to Toledo, Detroit.
Buffalo and Chicago, on the Great
lakes, to St. Louis, the gateway Of the
southwest, on the Mississippi.
From Chicago, st. Louis and Kansas
CITY to New Orleans and Galveston, on
the Gulf Of Mexico. From Chicago,
St Louis and Kansas City to Laredo
and FL Paso, on the Mexican bound