The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-31
RAILROAD NEWS.
Work Is Being Rushed on West
ern Pacific.
VIII Be Completed in One
Year.
INCREASED PROFITS.
Reported in Earnings of Gould
Lines.
Other Items Of Interest to
Railway People.

Reports from San Francisco and
Salt. Lake City show that satisfactory
progress is being made with construc-
ton work on the Western Pacific, the
important coast extension of the
Gould; system. The difficulty of OBJ
tanning labor has been factor in de-
laying the building operations; still,
the company has been able to keep
5000 to 5000 men on the field con-
tinuously
1t is expected that the road will be
nnlshed from Salt Lake City to San
francisco, distance of 929 miles, by
ene end of next year. Then the Gould
system Will have a direct route from
baltimore to San Francisco. via st.
LOUIS, With the exception of a 15O-
mile break between Pittsburg and
Cum perland to connect the Wabash
ana the western Maryland
The transcontinentaI route will conn
prise the western Maryland, the Wa
Dash, the Missouri Pacific. the Rio
ciec.
Contracts Let
The Western Pacific has let. 81, 7OO,-
700 contracts for terminal work in
San Francisco and Oakland. The 1872
miles of road in California, are under
contract, and about $50. miles have
been graded. There are APT miles of
road in Nevada. The construction
northern Nevada to Winnemucca,
in the northern central part of Nevada
and 1t is announced that grading will
nave proceeded for a distance of eighty
miles west of Winnemucca by October
The road will have a maximum
grade of l per cent. There will be
ffty-nine tunnels on the whole road,
aggregating $3.50 feet. The longest
will be 1924 feet.
The route of the extension is direct
ly west from Salt Lake City to Wells,
New. From this point it runs through
northern Nevada to Winnemucca
which is a short distance west of the
center of Nevada, whence it swings
down. to Big Bend, in northern-central
California. From Big Bend it's course
is directly south to Stockton, whence
Francisco.
Large Earnings.
George J. Gould has announced that
surveys have been completed for the
link to connect the Wabash and the
Western Maryland. Beginning of
work on this important part of the
Gould tranScontinental system has
been postponed on account of money
market conditions.
Seven of the Gould lines had large
earnings in the fiscal year ended on
June 80. The gross earnings of the
Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain
system, the Wabash. the Denver &
Rio Grande, the Wheeling & Lake
ERE the western hdIyldhu, the 81
Louis Southwestern and the Texas &
Pacific aggregated 36,2S4.O63, an in
crease of $14,92S,566 over the previous
year. These figures do not include the
gross earnings of the International &
Great Northern.
The gross earnings of each of these
lines were: Missouri Pacific and Iron
Mountain system. $4S,611.O22, an in
crease of $4,O43.104. or 81 per cent;
the Wabash. $27,428,739, an increase
of $2,407,153, or 90 per cent; the st.
Louis Southwestern, $10,541,947, an
increase of $1.5s2.697. or 17.S per
cent; the Western Maryland, $5,608,
266, an increase of $SO6,1S2, or 1913
per cent; the Wheeling & Lake Erie,
II per cent; the Denver & Rio Grande,
$21.303,S66, an increase of $1,668,1S6,
or 8.5 per cent. and the Texas & Pa
cif1c. SIC, 1850. an increase of 49,
500, 1855, or 26.S per cent.