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Show GOULD'S NEXT MOVE WILL BE WESTWARD Western Pacific Last Link in His Gigantic Ocean to Ocean System. THE Rio Grande Western, tho Utah end of the Gould System, has been very quiet these last few years in the matter of extension, but In the opinion of a man well versed in railroad rail-road affairs it is nothing more nor less than the cnlm before the storm. Just now, this man goes on to cxplan, Mr. Gould is uniting all efforts to complote the Atlantic terminal of his system. He has just got Into Pittsburg after the fight of his life with tho great Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania system, and thousands of men are at work connecting up tho link between his West Virginia and Maryland Mary-land lines, which will take the Goulds into Baltimore. Contracts have been let for ImmeiiBc water front terminals near that city. Baltimore is an old port of the United States, and although not of the commercial com-mercial Importance of New York. It will do very well for a time, or until Gould can make some arrangements for entering enter-ing the metropolis by trackage or traffic agreements. This work will place Gould in a position posi-tion to enter Into a traffic campaign in territory covered by his own fran-chipes fran-chipes and close connections from Baltimore Bal-timore to Chicago; to the Groat Lakes; through Missouri touching leading cities en route, to tho Gulf of Mexico; to Mexico City; west to El Pni; through the heart of Texas and adjoining adjoin-ing States: a direct lino from Buffalo to various cities; Utah and Colorado covered with his steel; direct lines from Baltimore to Ogden, Salt Lake and Marysvale and from all the regions mentioned above. What will be the next move? Simply that he has got to secure an outlet of his own on the Pacific, and this, it is claimed, pwill be the very next work of Importance. Tho Western Pacific could solve the problem, and a short line from Marysvale to San Diego would arrange matters on the south. ' These arc the two lines tho public expects to see constructed, con-structed, and then will come the completion com-pletion of the Atlantic-Pacific line, the dream of the lato Jay Gould, and now-being now-being very nearly accomplished by the son. |