Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-10-15 | Page 14 | Gould Keeps His Roads

I GOULD HIS ROADS I II I Railroad Official Deduces Conclusion From rom om Recent Harriman Hamman lines Elections George Gould and his own coterie of capitalists are in supreme control of the Denver Rio Grande the Missouri Pacific the Wabash the Western Vestern Pa Pacific Pacific Pacific and the other roads rotas known as the Gould lines ling said a railroad official yesterday That was shown by the election of the Harriman lines held in Salt Lake recently Whether hether Gould would still stin have lave been in control if E H Harriman had lad lived is an entirely different mat matter matter matter ter continued the railroad man manIn manIn manIn In many quarters the surmise was circulated that some Gould line stock stockholders stockholders holders would be put on the Harriman directorate and if the Harriman lines had md controlled the Gould lines or were In n a fair way to do so they surely would have to give the Gould stock stockholders stockholders holders some representation matlon Among the he directors elected there is no large holder of Gould stock When the Western Pacific gets bets un under under under der full headway I believe the people of the west will HI be treated to real competition com competition petition which is something they have never had heretofore I would not be surprised to see an entire revision of freight and passenger rates within one on year from the present time concluded ed the official