Show r TELBGBABHIG JAY GOULD IJtre AliiJ I Colossus of Railroads The 21o < 2crn roads and VTliat He is JJOID Afr Louie 25 The IostDi8paln vT1b1ihc an elaborate artie e retarding rations of Jny Gould and his Iii jbe operations and soates in tho west and southwest the present and future effeCt of them op i i efations upon th growth and commerce I OfSt Louis The miles embrared in i what is called Goulds consoldklion are f4afOliOWi The Vabosh fysttm both cut and vest of the i3jis1pPi Rler fiFid bran hce 24S7jnilMj Misour i Pa Snc and branches 712 central i branch V i i f the Urinn PaciBc 363 Missouri feansas and Texas tnd branches 825 Kansas facifio and branches 1011 JUnion Pacific and branches 2116j Den tark 201 Iron Moantai vvor and South 211lj W branches 64 5 IntwnaUonh 1 and Great Northern CGI Texas and Great I I Northern C < H Texas ind PiciCc O f r uivs built 687 Total l 9WO miles In ad railion 1 to this there is 3bo mi e in coure coatlruction in India a Illinois fir d Iowa which will clter into the Wba fy = tem who completed and nearly if not quite 2 000 miles under contract or projected in Texas and Mexico Much I speculation was indulged in a year ago Las to what effect these conEoHdatloni would have upon St Loui many bui men fsaitiK they would injure rather than benefit tbecily To show tho effect I of the gram Urde of the city it i stated that last Jer th re wr received hrroof wheat 16yi600bush F 1 corn 12 721 000 buhlfj oats 477 000 bushel whio this yc rs recipe have b9n cheatI81SO00bush Sj corn 21575 MIO bushels oats 5 150000 buhef IOn increwe of 2 OC5 000 bushels of whet 784000 bushels of corn and 3730HO bushels o oats Mr G ulds idea thaI the sisoppi River from here to New Orleans should be u ed as an IIdjitional outlet for the grain of the west and northwest is shown by the siatcmoit that the Misoun Pacific at d AVabaah and Iron Mountain Hailroads have nearly 500000 of st ck m barge lines on the L wer Missouri River and that every eflort J3 i bing made to make the river a means of exportation of grain to the sea board and to Europa during a1 l I seasons of the year |