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Show THE HAlLJjOAD WORLD What Wizzard Jay Gould is Trying to do With the Union Pacifio Bailroad. HE WANT8 TRAFFIC FOE HIS Favorite Line, the Missouri Pacific at Pueblo via the R. G. W. and Colorado M.dlaadi Gradually the U. P. removal matter is being understood. The following is the effect of a prrbe run to the bottom and the result is for the public to decide. de-cide. Mr. Gould's name is Jay, but he has more than sullicieutly proved by bis recent series of great maneuvers that he is not a jay In any other sense. The more far seeing people of Salt Lake are beginning to see that there may be several sides to the proposition to move the Union Pacific office aud shops from that city to Ogden. The true inwardness of it all is believed be-lieved to be a smart move of Gould's managers to take advantage of the jealousy between Salt Lake and Ogden in order to secure the bulk of the Utah business for the Missouri Pacific at Pueblo Pu-eblo via Kio Grande Western and Colorado Colo-rado Midland Vailways by prejudicing Salt Lake shippers against the Union Pacific. . It is said that Gould's interest in the I'nif.n lViiilii is insiirniticant compared with his interests in the Missouri Pa-citic, Pa-citic, Santa Fo and is eastern connections, connec-tions, and ho is figuring to divert the greater part nf the Western busiuess to his pet svstem. 1 ' , The government's interest in the Union Pacific is about S.W.UOO.OOO. in interest-bearing bonds, and it has been rumored that Gould wants to get the government to annul those bonds and make him a present, of the $.10,0uO.00tl. Mr. Gould is a modest man; he wants very little except what is contiguous to the earth. In order to induce thu government gov-ernment to make this concession, it is claimed that he will use every effort to run tho Union Tacilic property down. If he succeeds in this scheme and tnrn tin- Salt Lake business away from the Union Pacific, which is about Ho per cent of all the, Utah business, it will do much to weaken the I'niou Pacitic. Before he got control of theroad, the main line through Cheyenne was literally lit-erally blocked with traffic, and now that "has melted away somehow. Diverted Di-verted probably to his other lines. When Adams' Was president he was aiming at the throat of the Santa le by building a line from 'Frisco down through Nevada to Los Angeles. 'I he grading was completed for 140 miles, and when finished he would have had command of the transcontinental situation, situa-tion, and could have robbed the Atlantic Atlan-tic & Pacitic of nearly all its business, or at least have dictated terms favor-; favor-; able to himself. When Gould came in his first aot was to nip that scheme in the bud in order to have the Union Pacific more entirely at his mercv. The result of his latest move is watched w ith gn at interest by those who appreciate its mcauing. |