Show TL BIG GOULD GOULDy y r DEAL EAl CLOSED r p tw 4 I f Important Alliance With Orient System Is Officially Announced f EASTERN RATES INCREASED J t I c nOCK BOCK ISLAND isi SAID TO BE Bg HOLD BOLD HOLDER HOLDER BOLDE ER E OF OP MO AT BONDS y OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE deals In the history rY of ot western railroading has Just been con consummated consummated summated This Is a close traffic al alliance alliance liance ilance between the Gould systems and the Orient line which President A E is building from Kansas City to the Mexican coast Several days ago it was announced in this depart department department department ment of ot The Herald that such a deal 4 was on The report is now confirmed by dispatches from the east The an announcement announcement while of the utmost im importance Importance Importance in its bearing upon western railroad maneuvers will occasion no great surprise In view of the cordial relations ex cx existing t between the two interests it was such a move as might have been ex cx expected expected The Kansas City Mexico Orient has been using asing the trades tracks of the Missouri Pacific to make connections connections connections on Its broken branches and it was Vas natural to expect that these cour courtesies court t would be returned when the Missouri Pacific wanted favors The alliance will give the Orient an outlet to the east while the Missouri Pacific end and tho the other Gould lines Unes will secure an entrance into just the territory ry it has coveted In the southwest Edward Dickinson the general manager and third vice president of the Orient is responsible for the statement that the terminal system m will be completed and andIn andin I In operation within a year Kansas City Nov o 6 rAt a meeting today of ot the executive committee of at atthe ofU U the Kansas City Mexico Orient Rail Railroad R ll il road roal company Warren G Purdy for formerly formerly merly president of the Rock Island and George J Gould were vete elected directors dIrectors directors tors The election was as In accordance with instructions received from A E Stilwell president pre Ident of the road who is isnow Isnow Isnow now in n New York George J Gould Is president of the tho Missouri Pacific and vice ice president of the Kansas City Southern being pres president presIdent presIdent ident or vice president resident I of all the lines ines of ot the Gould system In the west and andA A southwest It was announced last week that a traffic alliance had been made between the Missouri Pacific and the Orient road The Stilwell line Une will give the Missouri Pacific and the other Gould lines Jines an outlet to the Pacific coast |