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Show HE WILLNOi; ;;. BUHjDROAD Gould Again Denies That He Is Backing Western Pacific Project BAN FRANCISCO, March S-Oeorge' J. Gould, president of the great Gould system sys-tem of railroads, accompanied by bis family fam-ily and several railway officials and friends, has just arrived here from the South. The party has been making a tour of the Southern and Southwestern States, stopping over at San Diego and Sunt Barbara on their way to this city. In an interview he denied the frequent reports that he was behind the Western Paclfle railroad project The Bouthern Pacific connections with the Gould and other roads to the West, he Said, were eminently satisfactory and he could see no reason why he should contemplate an Invasion of the coast territory, so longas these plesssnt relations continued. The same statement, he added, would apply to the Santa Fe connections. : ' |