OCR Text |
Show WELLS, FARGO & CO. PURCHASES PACIFIC EXPRESS PRIVILEGES Transfer Declared Already to Have Been Consummated. Consum-mated. 8 AN PR A NCI SCO. June t The Examiner Exam-iner today states that tha purchase of the Pacific Express company has been consummated. The consideration la not given. The Pacific Express company oas express privileges over 14,000 miles of railroad. A. E. Powell, local agent for We I Is -Far go a Co.. said this mnrnlng that while he had received no official Information Informa-tion from the president of Wells-Fargo Co.. there was no question that the Pacific Express company had been purchased pur-chased b - Wells -Kar go and that the change of ownership would take place on June 1 next. That part of the Pacific Express which will be taken over bv Wells-Fsrgo was that which was operated over the Missouri Mis-souri Pacific. TOflO miles; the Wabash, ?koo miles, the Wheeling Y teaks Erie. &OA miles; International s Great Northern, North-ern, lino miles; t. Ixuls s Southern. 1.1frt miles: Texas PaHflc, loft miles. These, with other smaller rosds, will run the total mileage up to nearly 1.(W)0 miles of railroad llnea. It will be noted that tha principal llnea over which the Wells-Kargo will he operated are Gould Itnee, and though no Information of an authoritative nature has been given out. It Is believed -thst It will bo but a ahort time before Wella-Fargo will take over the business of the Globe Express company, com-pany, which now peratee over the Colorado Colo-rado lines of the Denver ft Rio Orande and the Western Paclfle. |