Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-27
More Than a Thousand Million
Dollars of Capital Are Said
To be Involved.
MILEAGE SOMETHING IMMENSE
Mercer win be Known as the
Greater Pennsylvania
System.
Charles S. Mellen Said TO be the Master
Mind In Conceiving it--He Will be
The Head OF the Whole.

Chicago, May 27.---A dispatch to
+be Inter- Ocean from Washington, d.
c.. says:
While the eyes of the whole coun-
try have been conferred on E. II, Har-
riman as the master and manipulation
of the railroad world, greater and
more extensive combination of rail
road interests has been IN process OF
perfection, until now the plans are
matured for the public declaration
of this gigantic merger.
More than a thousand million dol
lars of capital are involved, and the
mileage of the new system will extend
practically from the most northern
point of the Atlantic coast to the
gulf ports, with u. network of tracks
gridironing New England. the east and
middle west and tapping the greatest
freight producing territory In the
world.
This colossal merger. when perfect
ed. will be known as the Great Penn
sylvania system. 1T Will embrace
practically all the railroad mileage in
New England, together with the pres
ent Pennsylvania lines east and west
of Pittsburg, with through connec-
tiuns to New Orleans and Mobile on
the gulf
Instead OF projecting a transcon-
tiuental lire from ocean to ocean, the
keystone Of the new system VIII be
the Panama canal. Traversing as 1t
does the most congested sections of
the United States. and reaching every
great industrial and manufacturing
center cast Of the Mississippi, it will
AFFORD an outlet to the products of
this vast section to all the ports of
the Atlantic north of the Potomac,
ard also give them a direct route to
the orient via the gulf and the new
isthmian canal, when completed.
Charles s. Mellen is credited with
being the master mind that conceived
This vast project. although it is un-
derstood that this consolidation was
under consideration before the death
of the late \. j. Cassatt. president OF
the Pennsylvania.
Aiellen and his associates in this
great project feel assured according
TO the best Information at their COM
mand, that there viii be no opposition
10 or criticism of their venture on the
part of the. administration, as no
competiting parallel lines will be
merged except IN the case of few
mimportant branches.
The present PENNSYLVANIA system is
the nucleus Of the merger, though Il
is understood President Mellen Of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford,
will head the now greater system. A
board of control will be elected repre-
senting all the various interests which
dominate at present not only the
Pennsylvania system, but the CONSOLE
dated roads of New England and the
newly acquired southern connections
The main properties TO be merged.
as learned nero, are;
The PENNSYLVANIA railroad. control
ling all the lines east of Pittsburs.
The Pennsylvania company. control-
ling the lines west OF PitIsburg
The New York, New Haven & Hart
ford railroad controlling practically
al the mileage Of New England out
side of the oBston * Maine system
The Louisville & Nashville railroad
and connections.