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Show No Transcontinental Road. .New York, June 12 Local repre-! -entatives of the Pennsylvania dis- i Claim any idea of the establishment of a transcontinental road should the Southern Pacific stock be acquired by the Pennsylvania rond. It was pointed out that even were this desirable, de-sirable, the phslcal means would still bo lacking Pennsylvania's farthest western connection, even through its leased lines, is many hundreds of mlle3 away from the Southern Pa - j clfle's nearest eastern point According to the last annual report of the Pennsylvania railroad company It had 142,7fi2 Bhares of preferred stock of the Rcltlmore & Ohio with a par value of $14 273,600 an.! 57,250 shares of common with a par value of $5,725,000. Including the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania company, which controls lines west of Pittsburg, the Pennsylvania intereBt9 own about $43,000,000 of Baltimore & Ohio stock. |