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Show WILL EXTEND' TO CITY OF ANGELS. " Missouri Pacific Announces Construction Construc-tion Of Extenston. ', , '' ' '' '""' All Western sTtik' Lines, lijccpt Itnrrlinait.ffrcted by Re. ' '" organization. (Los Angeles Tribune.) J. M. Johnson, vied president of the Missouri Pacific and high in circles of the Gould railroad interests, stretched out a map of I' the United States yesterday afternoon in the local Missouri r; " Pacific office and traced with a '' soft lead pencil a line from Jfysirysville, Utah, the southwest- ', v. em extremity of the Gould syutem, to Los Angeles. "That is the course we have decided on for the Gould invasion in-vasion of Southern California," said he. "Construction work will be commenced in the very near future." A preliminary survey of the route has been made, as have several others, but a decision was not reached until a few days ago, after a personal inspection ;'.- ' trip made by President Bush of - the Missouri Pacific and Denver & Rio Grande, and Johnson. Announcement of the project, which means a fourth transcontinental transcon-tinental railroad for Los Angeles, was delayed until Jchnson reached this city yesterday- accompanied ac-companied by a number of Gould officials. WILL BE PART OF GREAT SYSTEM. The immediate effect of a ; ;:, Gould entry to Los Angeles will nV? W Ve e connecting of this city ,... ,, with one. of the great railroad "!. systems of the country a system , :. . , which finds on its own tracks terminals-at almost all the great inland cities of the United States x and many of the principal sea-s sea-s ports of the continent. By con nection with the Denver and Rio Grande, the Missouri Pacific, and Iron Mountain, and the Wabash all Gould roads, Los Angeles will be directly connected with Salt Lake City, Denver, Ogden, Omaha, St. Louis, Kansas City, ;; Memphis, New Orleans, Galvesr V. ton, Chicago and other of the - Great Lake cities, New York, and other Atlantic centers. " Traveling with Johnson in his private car, which arrived from San Francisco yesterday, were: C. L. Stone, passenger traffic manager; J. N. Githens, general ' freight agent at St. Louis; K.'L. f Wharry, general freight agent at Kansas City, and W. F. , Schmidt, general western agent at San Francisco, all holding titles under the Missouri Pacific " railroad. T TERMINALS TO BE GOTTEN J ; LATER." ; Johnson said that the matter of securing terminal facilities in this city had not been taken up, but th,at it probalby would be with the beginning of actual ; " construction from Marysville. The road is to follow a south-fig: south-fig: westerly course, cutting through 8P? ' southern Utah and passing ;); through territory said to be ''L already fairly well established. ; St. George, one town it is planned to touch, has a population popu-lation of 5000 although it is fifty miles from any railroad. Thence the road will dip into Arizona and cut over through the southeastern south-eastern corner of Nevada, entering en-tering California in much the same way as the Lalt Lake. I The route, according to John-' son, presents few engineering ,; dijficutlie3, rhich should make completion of the road, once be- gun, a matter of comparatively short time. It is probable that i after construction has beguna gang of men will be started working eastward from a point near Barstqw. "The amount' of freight and passenger traffic originating in Southern Califb'nia," said Johnson, John-son, "as well as that coming here, combined with the startling growth of the country, has been the' chief cause for the Gould dc- 1.. J 1.1 I i.AUU!l-.n.U. cision to mvautisuns lurinuiy. PART OF COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. Dispatches from New York received re-ceived last evening state there is under consideration among some of the most prominent men in the western railroad field and their bankers a plan which, if consummated, will result in the greatest changes in railroad relations re-lations west of Chicago since the days of E. H. Harriman. Involved in it are the Rock Island, the Gould western system, the Chicago and Northwestern, North-western, a Vanderbilt road, and the three great Hill lines the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Chicago, Burlington and DETAILS OF PLAN. The plan is for a joint interest by the Rock Island and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy in Missouri Pacific's control of Denver and Rio Grande, which also carries with it ownership of the Vestern Pacific and probably probab-ly joint obligation of the Rock Island and the Burlington with the Denver and Rio Grande in the Western Pacific bonds. Within the last month the Northern Pacific has made a traffic alliance with the Chicagc & Norhwestern, a Vanderbilt line, which procures for it traffic facilities from St Paul to (jhi-cago (jhi-cago and thence on eastward. Hence the Northern Pacific gets through the Noithwestern advantages ad-vantages comparable to- those held by the Great Northern through the Burlington. |