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Show GOULD INTERESTS I !N A BIG PROJECT l Planning a Triangle Which (Will Join Boise, Wmne-, Wmne-, j mucca, and Ogden OTHER PLANS IN VIEW f Feeder Lines, It Is Said, Are Included in the Gen- cral Scheme ttt to Ths Tribune IvJ; Idho Dec 11 A triangle !g Bei'e, Wtemuef uicl 0,deu teMA 15$ tli Western Pacific ril PEjaadsaS1 proposed plan for the de J?3wmjat Hell southern Idaho ten TCSTfoiBinJsh tonnage for the road jfc js learned her todT The Go Id Jjnjterests already control a line from tardea to Tonnemneea by wav of the 4 Ko Grande and the Western and the other two aides ot the from Winnemucca. to Boise m Boise to Ogden are under ffbhanMiaer of Chicago one of arty ot fro who made the trip WinnewMM ever the proposed of the; Boise-yfmnemucca rail reached hers today in company George Fletcher presiient of the ivational tank, and t B Shaw, Iwga met the party at Ontario Mr Gwjm chief engineer of the DIR. Jtk and Mr W$hevwlu were with JkAa n the trip to Ontario, -were an ible to coma to Book fcajag Ded to fTrancreo on UMMttWi busuess. Trainer admits that the lite 3 through some promlsrej: lenl that the erada is a. goad on and that he would not cdasidw the road a .thfaenlt one to build. When ashed if llie trip over that bna -was not to looi. ato the mineral deposits reoently found -i4 which have been aeenred by the Gdgjenheim interests, iir Fletcher de-kared de-kared that the trip had nothing wba.tr 2Ter to do with any srinsral deposit J jui no investigations of any htad were jaaae. V-oionei riace interested VColesel E. C Plaoe, who for several Vara has been interested as the on ftjKbon of the Boise-Wianemueea road, f?r which the nht of way has- been secured, was with the party until last flight, when he stopped with two soil experts at the ranch of the Malheur Ijnsterk eempanv 11a miles from On fzxjo. Th"y are expected n Boise to-nsrrew to-nsrrew morning fcTla Gould interests a e known by -Jofil railroad men to be behind the jhrcstmction ot the feeders Included the plans t s said s the construe con of a feeder from Twin Falls north a.t through the rich section of east em Idaho to the Yellowstone park. The tnaxgle and the park feeder were hull out by engineers in 1913 but the EAneial stnngenev at the time pre Jested the financing ot the roads. President Bush of the Western Pa j&Ge inspected the Bo se-Winnemueca route a year ago and looked over the win Falls section He was accom janed bv a number of other offic als " the road and some off c al of the .Denver &. Bio Grande It s known fiat thev repeatedlv stated that the igestern Pacific had to develop its te nlory and extensive plans were made $&o so Result of Gateway Fight Smce that tune the fight over he ug of the Ogden gatewav to through passenger traff e over the Denver & Bio Grande by the Union Tat fie is said to have decided the -Western Paeifie and the Denver & sBio Grand" to take this action. If the proposed triangle feeder is completed into the southern Idaho field he Ogden gateway will then be thrown open to the Denver L Bio Grande At lie same time the southern Idaho bn Bess will be divided part go ng to the Western Paeif c while the territory will have another tidewater terminal pa the Pacific coast Oregon Short Line officials have been active in this territory latelv feneral Manager E E Calv n Ch ef Eiginrr Carl Stradlev aid other offi cials of the Oregon Short Line were "h;r9 last week. They inspected the Wilder branch from Caldwell to Home dale to investigate the feas b litv of -'flectnfymg it Th s line would parallel fthe proposed Bo se Wurnemucca 1 ne for some miles south of Caldwell. f( .Local Gould line officials last nigjrt I denied any knowledge of the proposed ldabo extensions other than rumors li They admitted that Pres dent Bush igwent over a part of the territory last asprmz but on account of the f nane al cosdtion of the Western Pacif c as well as the ent re country no further acton was taken Sumors Numerous dfeowever numerous rumors have been gloat recently'to the effect that the Western Pacific has obtained aid from outside sources and the construct on ot the line is under contemplation One injhat J J Hill, the railroad wizard lhe northwest desires an outlet to "ranc sco and has come forward Fun. a proposition to build the new flue and assume a portion of the West erafPacif c s indebtedness to gain that i end. lAnother r port that has ga ned some ) Medencei is that eastern cap tal sts are t the Project I als of the Oregon Short L ne 7 that the trip over the W Ider j 4 Branch was made with a view of elec trifyiug ,t |