Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-02-29 | Page 5 | Ocean to Ocean is Gould's Plan

I OCEAN TO OCEAN IS GOULD'S PLAN A Could lino from the Atlantic to the ! Pacific seems not far In the future, says the Railway Age. Without crediting the recent rumor which extends tho Wabash from Pittsburg to New York ovcr the tracks of the Pennsylvania, ft Is sufficient to accept tho renewed assertion that connection con-nection vslll be completed between the Wabash Wa-bash and tho Western Maryland, which will make Baltimore tho Atlantic terminus of tho Gould .'ivstem. From Pittsburg west to Salt Lake City the Wabash. Missouri Mis-souri Paelllc and Denver & Rio Grande make a continuous line, and from Salt I-nke to Los Angeles it has been declared tho connection will bo completed by a contract con-tract with the San Pedro, Los Angeles & fault Lake road, now well on toward completion. com-pletion. But to those who doubt that the Union Pacllic will turn over Its partly bulk extension from Salt Lake lo I,o:i Angeles to a dangerous competitor, there Is light In the growing- conviction that the Denver Northwestern & Paelllc, or MofTat road, which Is piercing the Rocklen .lust west of Denv.T. nnd the .-nvsterious Wentcrn Paelllc, which has purchased costly terminals at San Francisco nnd surveyed sur-veyed its route to Utah, nro to completo the Gould connection with the Paelllc The announced line of the -Moffat road Is from Denver to Salt Lake, some CC0 miles: but examination of a map will show that by building less than 150 miles the Denver Northwestern & Paelllc could strike tho Denver ,i Rid Grande somewhere near Glenwood faprlngs and save over 200 miles oyer the present detour of tho D. & R G via Pueblo; furthermore, that tho Western Facile can strike the D. di R. G. at Thlstlo Junction, cr miles oouth of Salt Lako Cltv. thus completing jconncctlon between Denver Den-ver and San Francisco on a noaiiy direct lino, and with a saving of -100 miles or so over the distance that tho construction ot the two new road3 to Salt Lako City would cover.