Show DREAM OF GOULD IS COMING TRUE ad Men Believe Magnate Will Soon Have Coast Lines report that the Gould Interests in the Colorado Fuel Iron Iroil company have been absorbed by the Oil Interests Is looked upon In eastern railroad and fInancIal circles as being if a fact significant of a transportatIon deal meaning the realization of the Gould scheme of railroad connection from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pa Pacific coast Railroad experts see on the surface many coincident happenings In which the hands ot of the Gould and Rockefeller ler Interests have been In evIdence all tending to give color to accuracy of the forecast With the report of tha transfer of the Colorado Iron to the Rockefeller syndicate went the an announcement of the completion of the Western Vestern Pacific completing the Gould systems clear sweep from Pittsburg to San FrancIsco Another significant feature Is that since the supposed date of the transfer of the bIg western steel stel manufacturing company the Rockefellers lers have made heavy purchases of the stock of the Western Maryland a road now In the hands of receivers but which would form the last link In the tha Gould line from coast to coast The principal value of the Western Maryland I rland lies In its utility as a link linkin linkIn in a transcontinental line and nd the Gould plans in this direction since Its pur purchase purchase chase two years ago have been fre frequently frequently blocked by the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore Ohio Latterly however the Gould Interests have been quietly obtaining rights along another route that will wUl bring the Western Maryland into Pittsburg This route starting at Bellington W Va taps a rich soft coal section Along the route are strips of road here and there and the plan seems to be to con connect fleet these up In a continuous line be before fore foro the Western Maryland Is turned over to Its owners by the receivers which Is expected to occur soon With the success of such a plan en entrance entrance trance Into Pittsburg from the east would be an easy matter The Wabash terminals In are controlled by the Gould Interests and with the connecting link now sought for the route would through trains from tidewater at Bal Baltimore Baltimore to San Francisco without a break |