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Show GOULD TO PLAGE GREAT ORDERS Germnn Hails and Many How Cars and Locomotives for All Lines, Following the announcement that the Denver & Rio Grande bad placed an order for 12,000 tons of steel rails, comes the unusual news that this Is but a drop In the bucket to the orders that .the nllled Gould lines are to place. Mr. Gould Is now In Europe, but his various heads of departments have received their Instructions and the orders will be placed mostly In this country, but arrangements will be made with Gorman Gor-man steel mills to furnish a very large order of heavy steel rails. These are to be shipped to Baltimore. Md., and a part on the Gulf of Mexico, where they will be handy to the ends of the Gould lines, his would indicate that the great system has In view extensions In all parts" of the country. The orders for equipment are to Include In-clude thousands of freight cars of the greatest capacity and all of steel. New diners, parlor cars and general passenger pas-senger equipment is likewise to be ordered, the details being Indicative of a train do luxe. For some time the Gould lines have been very quiet but It Is now evident that things are In such a position that the backers are about ready to make their announcements of great plans for the future. No doubt remains that Gould Is back of the Western Pacific. As one railroad rail-road man said yesterday: "He can't stop hero under the conditions, and as he ha3 completed his line to the Atlantic, At-lantic, it is a sure thing that he will turn to the Pacific right away. All these rails and orders for future delivery deliv-ery of equipment point only to a Pacific Pa-cific extension." |