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Show M OUWTS RIVALS Jilt and Gould Wanted the El ?s & SoUth-JK SoUth-JK western. ViB -pfCIAIi from Fort Worth to 4Mi S ; St. Lo" OobcDcirfocrat ,VBt tM report reaches here lllr the St that the Rock VlR rr0" n,llv secured control of the km Southwestern road, the .leal iRn consummated noma weeks mmU Si i.t2.mcnt 1h correct It mean. ,W' nto the Pnclllc coast E. H. V0lhtr 1 of the Southern Pacific and I ;jMmmn i i t the head of the Gould Tfcwrge GouW nl l noc;otlating with lrKTtem h3Vc .syndicate or tho pur-. pur-. 'Be P'P5:? rf Paso and Southwestern. aKL of h arc true the Rock Island IK lf rf,0,i nfferVd more for tho prop-ltpH prop-ltpH A of U e other two compet-.'(Br compet-.'(Br lhari cltlier 01 od aUti,orty mh J1 J f,, actually closed before L.TiSt '"e dS n and pu rty Vlsiud the .'Rpert V ou on a;, Tnspection trip Amie "PJood "hat the Phelps-Dodge If 11 ,rim rqSin control of the branch lKrBP?D 7,1 1 A It If there should ever bo kJln,n Drl bVlwcor. the Rock Island lT.ojn 'Py'rlg? interests It would I M h0 matter to connect up the I Im-nH form n main line from the I pancbM Jna oy , Dcmlng. N. M.. FBfo,"$,rtVw:i President Unrrlman'H Control of the line so as Jfea to sjtute i extension weal of Eprtntnn yir fl, con. JpMon. "d n , the freight traffic of 1Pe,?b J' pkcl Se In the country went ..ftorn &raf" " ' attempting to cut orf ' mnt .n" of this new line Into San 3)P nEtruc Ing a branch of the H'Krp w Ppn.?Jukn0wn as the Imperial r4yt'vrbnncn through Southern Cnll- Saniw northern portion of Lower ' 5iSK thus attempting to got control Mvmiv" before the Rock Island. -&oiM needed the Southwestern I i a connection between thb west-'lfc.lrns west-'lfc.lrns of the Texas & lV.cllic nnd v IK Kdnc "coSt When Mr. Gould dls-JRJ1 dls-JRJ1 that ho was not going to secure KfVnf the El Pfleo and Southwestern Wurid the Worn Pacific railroad, fcfh will Rtw him a terminus at San jR'nock Island has been figuring op JKrtoUie 'aclllc coast over the South-DKslern South-DKslern ever since the Gould pcop e fell -lEt nf the race, and from reports rc-'iKfd rc-'iKfd heiv II Is evident that that com-'IEr com-'IEr will In the course of time realize lis 'I Men hopes In reaching San Diego. |