Salt Lake Herald | 1891-04-05 | Page 1 | Object of Gould's Western Visit

Object Goulds Western Visit ST Louis April 4ln connection with Goulds visit to the west an afternoon paper has the following The object of Goulds visit to St Louis at the present time is tho furtherance of the proposed I great southwestern and southern combina tion of railroads including tho roads known as the Gould system the lines owned and controlled by C P Huntington or rather what is known as the Hunting ton syndicate Atchison Topeka Sc Santa Fe and on the east side of the Mississippi Richmond Danville and perhaps others The proposed scheme is the formation formaton of a company with a sufficient capital to cover a reasonable capitalization of the whole amounting to some forty thousand miles of railroad extending across tho continent with their main streams running through the south and southeast and many feeders reaching out in every direction through tho vast country made tributary to the mainlines