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Show CONTINENT TO BE SPANNED Gould and narriman Do Big Planning. One System From Ocean to Ocean Is Idea of Each. Eastern View on Hallway DdqIs That Will Very Materially Affect Salt Lake. Tho fouotvlnp Eastern view of the rall-.'ray rall-.'ray situation deal a great dcrtl with -tnlnsrs that concern Salt Lake. City and tells much of th Western Pacific. Tho article- In question enmfs from tho Chl-cago Chl-cago Re cord -Horn Id. It says: It has always boon tho ambition of tho GouM family to control a llnr of track, across trva American continent. and under thr management man-agement of Oorse Gould It la about to real-ire real-ire that Batuifacii-n. i ho Canadian Pacific u tho only railroad that Hpans tin continent, having a continuous track from Halifax to Vancouver via Quebec, Montreal Tort Arthur and Wlnnlptfr. u .llftan. c of about tcX mil. -Thern haji been a goo 'leal of talk atout th consolidation of tho New York Central, 1 dt Phora, NorthwcBtTn and tho 1-nlon and Ccn-iral Ccn-iral Pacific, which uro controlled by Mr. Harrlmon and tho VandorbllU;. Into a slnRlo road from Nw York to San Francisco, but thus f: nothloj practical luv been dono In that direction. Mr Ooull. however. Is ac tlvely at rork ccmMr.lnii tho a-vi-ral lines under un-der his control and filling tho Rat. a rapidly as poaslbU between Oakland nd llaltlroorc. 0 that within two or truu JriMrS It will be porslblo to cros tho cmillnint from either Of thoso cities without changing cous, ovor a track own-.' I n J -.ntrollo.1 ! a King!" family. fam-ily. You would leave Baltimore by the Western West-ern Maryland, then take th YVest Virginia Central, the Wheeling Like Brie, the Wabash Wa-bash tho Ml.iw.url Pacific and the Dl I ei .. Klo Grando to Salt l-ak City, and from mere the Western Pacific to Oakland. Western Pacific. The latter road does not axlat except on a map that har.gn in 'h-j office of T. v Jeffery, j.ii-sldent of th-a Denver & IU- G rondo system, sys-tem, but the contracts have been let. tho terminals at Oakland havo beon securod, ruil Mr. Jaffory and Virgil C. Bogcw, tho chief englneor. !iavt been at work for three years surveying a rojte. securing a rUsht of way and preparing for construction, which will a -tually bogln irlthln a few werks Mr Gould has negotiated SSo. Xpj,i::) worth of bonds, although al-though the engineers calculate that Vj.i"J will build the track , A. H. Cal"f. treasurer of the various Gould properties, has th money in his till, and everything Is ready to canv the enterprlso through In the most approved North American favihUm. When the Wentoin Pacific Is completed It will bring tho total mlleago of the Gould roads up to 17.000 mile.-' which. I beltave, Will be longer than any o'hr aystaoi. Tho Hock Island uompan r-ow controls con-trols over 16.000 miles, tho greatest mileage under one managimint. What It Will Cost. It Is 8S0 miles from Salt lAkn to "efktand by tho route selected for tho Western Pacific, Pa-cific, crossing thu Sierra Navauax by the Beckwlth pars, which Is l?So feet lower than tho crossing of the Cer.trnl Pacific. Pa-cific. Tho distance Is about tho sAmo as that of tho Central Faclflc. There, will not be more than twenty flvo or thirty ratios difference, dif-ference, which may bo dnternilncd by tho choice of routes In tuo or tbree places. There Is only one tunnel, through which the trains will pass under tho summit of tho pass sbout 7000 feet above tho sea. Tho maximum grade, will be 62.8 foot to the mile, while the maximum maxi-mum on the Central Pacific is IJO fet. Th track will be laid with elghty-ftvo-poun-l rails., and tho curves and gradients will be reduced re-duced to modern scale which Is much lets than those of roads which woro built ton or fifteen years ago. Tho Gould people will have a great advantage In economy of construction. They expect to build and equip tho Wanted) Pacific for not more than $43. ana a mile, while tho Central Pacific, 'which was built thlrty-flvo thlrty-flvo years ago, cost S2W.000 a mile. Mr. Bog-ue in Charge. Tho work of construction will bo In charge of Virgil C. Bognc, the chlof engineer, who has been building railroads In tho mountains all his life, and recently laid out tho wonderful road which David H Moffat of Denver Is building through the Rockies. Thljt will glv San Francisco a third railroad to tho East and make eight transcontinental linen. |