El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-24
4 new LINE
ACROSS THE
COUNTRY
Road From the Southwest to
the Northeast May Be a
Reality Before Long.
WOULD RUN TO
THE PASS CITY

To put a ~one gallus' transcontinen-
tai line diagonaIly across the broad
back of Uncle Sam, running northeast
and southwest, from the producing
southwest to the marketing northeast
would seem to have been the dream
of the American railroad builders from
a study of railroad map of the United
States The spirit of Puck, who would
put a girdle about the earth In AZ
minutes seems to be the moving spirit
of American railroad builders.
Emperor Hartman.
Hartman was the chief of that SUI
perhuman type of builders. Not stop
ming with a trahScontinental line, he
would have girted the western hemi-
sphere, north to south, with belt OF
steel and cedar. Appearing on the horl-
zon is a movement, not yet wei deflneo,
that may place the suspender over
Uncle Sans right shoulder at Chicago,
5sbutton northeasterly at New York ana
eouthwesterly at San Diego
The suspender is already placed over
the shoulder and extends down to about
the fifth rib on Uncle Sans left side
over which FL Paso is conferred That
4 gradually weaving suspender is the
Chicago Rock Island & Pacific and
the FL Paso & Southwestern. South-
western engineers are at present west
of Benson picking out a right of way
for the extension of the suspender and
looking for the button Will it be san
& Diego or will it be Port Lobos? AS IN
the traditional parlor game, the people
of the cities that will benefit by the
! extension are asking, Button, button,
who has the button?'
PhelEs-Dodge Move.
The movement appears TO be engi-
neered by the Phelps-Dodge company
Hox
terests in the southwest, but behind the
meaningless firm name there is a NOV
ing spirit one to whom the glory IS
nothing. one WAC is content to see re-
suit without praise Who is it, 1t IS
believed by many that that person Is
young Arthur Curtis James, who, 1t Is
said. will be given a place on the Rock
island board of directors, displacing
Dr. F s. Pearson
Given control of the Rock Island and
Southwestern, and the almost certain
extension of the Southwestern 10 the
Pacific coast, either by the Spreckels
road from Yuma to San Diego or the
Arizona, Mexico * Gulf from Sllverpell
70 Port Lobos. the only section lacking
in the mammoth suspender, one-gallus
line would be an influential interest
in tne PENNSYLVANIA road, from Chicago
TO New York.
JAY Gould's Opinion.
Jay Gould, commenting on the trans
fer of Rock Island stock to the Phelps
Dodge company. Immediately placed the
natural construction on the deal that
the Phelps-Dodge company was seeking
an arrangement to satisfactorily handle
lis ore mined in the southwest
The stock purchased by the Phelps
Dodge company is said to be worth IN
che neighborhood Of s1S.009,000- The
whole amount of preferred Rock Island
stock is s54.0O0,0O0. It is rumored in
railroad circles that the Phelps-Dodge
interests viii pool their stock with the
Moore interests, controlling 124,0OO
shares, and thus gain control OF the
Rock Island
The Phelps-Dodge company has an
authorized capital of s50,0O5,o00, OF
which s449Se 500 is outstanding In
the past year the company paid divl-
dends, aggregating u percent on Its
capital
The acquisition of the Chicago-NeW
York link in tne Phelps-Dodge "ga1lus
NAV be too distant for consideration
but the last lap Of the suspender south
westerly and the location of the button
. are the Invest questions in the south
west today Who viii get the button