| Show STANDARD OIL AND AD CEO QED GOULD Looks Like a I Gigantic Gigantc Financial Merger Is on Foot a TO CAPTURE SOUTH WEST WESl Sequel to lb 0 mid and Hyde 1 II II their Lot Lol With L Last Lad t Week Step by step st p the tho plans of ot th the Goulds In the direction of oC o a 1 line lino lne from ocean to 10 ocean are material materializing materializing izing Four 1011 years yearn ago ngo there was Wil one director representing tho the Standard Oil 01 Interests on the board ourt of at the Missouri Pacific Each Kach succeeding year another r has Imas been added Now by the callon cation caton of ot John D Rockefeller Jr li nUl James II n Hyde h the thE Missouri Pa Paclo cilia clo railroad there Is a I formal an announcement announcement of oC the time association with wih George Gould ot of all 11 tho tue Influences amid un resources which the tho names ot of Rocke Hocko Rockefeller Rockefeller feller Celer and tIme the I ho Equitable J Life association lIon tion lon suggests to 10 the time imagination Great na as I have littre hlo been Mr Goulds re resources resources resources sources and intimate ns as been Icen his ui associations al with wih some of oC the time more mora irn m banking groups of ot New York In time the past palt tin an tl alliance with wih the Stand ary ur Oil 01 people eople representing the most moat powerful financial groUt group on Wall WallStreet Wal WallStreet Street con can have but one meaning menning that he lie proposes to launch oil oti In the tha dime direction tion tOI of railroad expansion Following the tho acquisition of ot tho the Hlo Itlo Ho Grande Western Wesler by the Gould Interests a 1 couple of oC years ngo ago a It certain prominent prominent nent official upon his return front from Crol New NewYork NewYork NewYork York stated to 10 the writer that Mr r Goulds plans which might half halfa a dozen years eurs to materialize e were sim simply ply pI iii staggering In the contemplation of oC their scope Already the roads rands that have been ac tic acquired by Gould wholly or In part ate are Ile the time file lo Grande Western Wester the Denver Hlo Jo Grande Hlo Itlo lo Grande Ornde Southern Mis MIB Bourl Pacific St Louis Iron Mountain and Ind Southern Wheeling Lake Ilko rie the Ann Arbor The Time Western Maryland Including the tho West Welt Virginia Virginia Central Pittsburgh the tIme International Great Northern and the Texas Pacific It I can enn be bo seen that Gould Is gradual gradually ly Iy working west went and nd taking In 11 alt all ni the prominent lines south Routh of ot an In Imaginary line lino drawn through Kansas I Following this slow II ow but bil sure move macYe come periodical cal enl readjustments of oC railroad systems In Inthe the tho south louth Goulds moves moes are arc fascinating to watch Itch and ond speculate upon mused a u Hlo 1110 Ho Grande man this Ihla morning moring We have heard hend a I lot regarding the nock flock Island and Frisco merger lately Intel anti and where there Is smoke there Is fire lre The niece mere fact that the chairman of oC the Frisco Prisco Is a Standard Oil 01 man and that the flock Hok Island Is ts one of tho the biggest competitors of at the Gould system y tem In the southwest lends leads me to think that you will wi find Ind that the Standard Oil 01 people are getting their ther claws on this big system syster tem ter Just take the map anti 11 see nee what shat hit hitIs Is left lott In the west after you ou take put it Island with the exception the time Rock nock 1 lant of oC the tho Santa Fc Fo Gould wilt will 1 have about all I there thero Is l Before DeCore Harriman began his railroad conquests In the far west he and Gould were presumably fast rust friends Lately however there seems to be not much love loe lost tint Gould Is fighting harriman on every eer step with wih the result that 1111 the Southern Is 8 having a great old time In time the youth south Then too cornea Comes corel the news that the tIme themo file Hlo Grande Orando Is II to extend from Crom Marys Marysvale MOIs Marysvale vale to the southwest mind and contractors are nr now How looking over the ground with the Idea Idea In view of bidding on work that Is to connect the Hlo 1110 Ho Grande with wih tho the Santa Fe near Manvel All Al this title means n a fight on the tho Southern and interests In the Ihl South fouth At this time mill all ni tItle this may many sound like a a pipe dream but hut Just watch the time elton situa situation tion ton and Ind If It In the tIme next few fe years the tIme Standard Oil 01 anti and Gould combination does not have a monopoly monor on the rail railroad fU road yost business of the time south fouth and couth west I miss my guess It I looks look as I though Jim Hill nl will wi have the northern route Harriman the central nati and ant the Standard Oil 01 the tM great preat south practically across the continent |
