Show I 1 I 1 RAILROAD RAIL EITER enterprises I 1 in the be list of improvements oden ogden lias ilas I 1 I 1 I 1 a place flace tue thre following folio a ing item from tho the new york sun will attract attention to the act fact that in the contemplated railroad changes improvements cod and naw now construction og aiden en has a place of prominence A dispatch yesterday from chicago aya says bat that mr J pierpont pier pont morgans present trip to the west has more than is generally supposed although it is claimed that his visit 11 has s no other object than pleasure and incidentally to inspect the properties of the elgin joliet eastern and chicago milwaukee st paul in which companies the barking house of drezel drexel morgan co holds a controlling interest yet mn me who aro are supposed to ba be well informed claim that startling developments in the western railroad situation will be made soon after mr Mor morgans cans return to new york the opinion is that mr morgans visit means the speedy consummation of another vanderbilt deal more sta startling tiling in its nature than the much talked of union pacific northwestern deal the fact is to generally known that drexel morgan co bold hold a controlling trolling interest in the elgin joliet and eastern belt line and the chicago milwaukee S st paul railroads roads the latter has been compelled to take tides sides with those opposed to ohp the northwestern and union pacific this is not what drexel morgan pa co desire their intention is in to bring these roads toads in into to the vanderbilt fold the opinion is expressed that this will be done as its soon as mr morgan ahall bare have returned to new now york those who are on the inside pretend to know that before many days maya have passed a traffic agreement fina ilar lathat existing between the union pacific and northwestern and milwaukee and st paul and it is even een predicted that a consolidation of the ho two systems will be made the attitude lately assumed by the union pacific inal indicate cates that something of the sort will be done the north v western alone could give e the union pacific all the westbound west vrest bound traffic it needs but with the milwaukee and st paul added which connects with the union pacific at kansas city omaha and sioux city the latter would have all the eastern feeders it needs and can defy all its other connections the elgin joliet and eastern connects all the vanderbilt vander hilt lines east from chicago with the milwaukee and st SL paul jaul and chicago and northwestern systems and by the use of this connecting lick the vanderbilt lines east and west of chicago will be able to trane transact act their through traffic without going chicago and paying heavy terminal and transfer charges the consummation of the deal outlined in the foregoing will give rive the Vander bilts the absolute control of a gantic cf al railway system from now ne york to ogden utah and all thea they would need will be the control of t the central pacific branch of the southern pacific to give them independent lines through from the atlantic to the pacific coast with terminals als both at san francisco and portland ore the oregon short line of tho the union r pacific already furnishing an outlet to the latter point the fai fat t that negotiations are a re already going on between the vander bilts tilts and leland uland stanford st and ad other owners of the southern pacific with a view of obtaining poe possession session of the interest of these parties in the south cm em pacific has already been men tinned and C P admits there is a probability that the van der bilto bilte will succeed in acquiring control of that properly property |