Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-15 | Page 14 | From Salt Lake to El Paso

I FROM 5ALT LAKE TO EL PASO j latest Important Development in ! Gould's Plans D. & TL G. Er- tension Outlined. ! jrx EPORTS have come from Now J York to tho effect that tho Den- j 1 ver '& Rio Grande Is about to buy tho Santa Fc Central and extend it from Santa Fe to El Paso, Tex- The latter line now reaches ft3 far as Torrance, Tor-rance, a point on the Rock Inland system. sys-tem. Surveyors believed to bo In the Gould interests are now at work between be-tween Torrance and El Paso, according to the Rocky Mountain News. If the Santa Fe Central were added to it and extended along the lines contemplated, con-templated, the Denver & Rio Grande system would parallel the Rock Island and tho Atchison. Topcka & Santa Fe Into El Paso, and would more than dou-I dou-I ble Itn Importance. Ab far as this Intcr-I Intcr-I mountain country is concerned, it would ' greatly incrcaso its tvafllc out here. As I friendly relations exist between tho ! Gould and Harrlman interests, the Den- Ter &. Rio Grande would get a largo I proportion of the freight that comes in from the Atlantic bcaboord via the Galveston Gal-veston route, na It could be routed over the Southern Pacific to El Paso and I thence to Denver. 1 It Is said that the Rock Island will vigorously oppose this transaction, and that the Goulds will have to bid against it for the property, tho stock of which is largely owned In Pittsburg. George Gould Is enld to be very much In favor i of Gen. Palmer's plan to extend tho I line to El Paso, and that If he can get I control of the Santa Fe Central ho will ' build tho extension and change the Rio I Grande Southern to a broad gauge. This i -will give tho Denver & Rio Grande a t broad gauge all the way from Denver to El Paso.