Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1880 — Jay Gould's Railroad Possessions. [ARTICLE]

Jay Gould's Railroad Possessions.

" Gath** says in a reoent letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer: Jay Gould's reaching out after new railroads received new attention to-day by the publication in a financial newspaper of the fact that he controls more milee of road than any other man. The Pennsylvania lines controlled by Colonel Soott have a total mileage of 6,400, and the Vanderbilt roads are 4,697 miles in length, including the Chicago A Northwestern, in which Mr. Vanderbilt has an interest sufficiently huge to entitle him to a deciding voice in its management. In the Gonld system, however, there are 8,168 miles of road. Mr. Gould is still seeking to control other roads, and reports are current that he to after the Ohio A Mississippi, the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati A Indianapolis, and the Indianapolis, Cincinnati A Lafayette, aggregating 16,237 miles. In some States all the leading lines are under Gould's management. He has a formidable competitor in the Atchison, Topeka A Santa Fe, but all the other routes in Kansas are in his grasp. In Missouri he controls or is Interested in every east and west fine, exempt the Chicago A Alton, in Colorado he has every mile of road exoept that owned by the Atchison, and all the lines in Utah are within his oontrol The fact that at present Gould has no connection with Louisville, Cincinnati and Cleveland adds weight to the report that he is after the Ohio A Mississippi. Gould’s relations with the Baltimore A Ohio folks have been very intimate lately. Gould's American Union Telegraph wires were put on the road by the Baltimore A Ohio managers, and Gould and Garrett have been much in conference lately, aud before Gould’s late Western trip. Were Gould to secure the Ohio A Mississippi, and then strike a compact with the Baltimore & Ohio managers, he would get a through outlet to the seaboard For all his roads west of the Mississippi; and were he to get control of the Iron Mountain Road, which romor credits him with having in view, bis system west of the great river would be well-nigh perfect. By use of the New Jersey Central, New York would be reached in connection with the Baltimore & Ohio. That Gould is actively negotiating to effect such an arrangement is believed by many longheaded men in Wall street.