. Elements of transportation, a discussion of steam railroad electric railway, and ocean and inland water transportation . ific line from New Orleans and Galveston to Los An-geles and San Francisco, the Union-Southern Pacific routefrom Omaha and Kansas City via Denver, Cheyenne, andOgden to San Francisco, the Oregon Short Line from SaltLake City to Portland, and the San Pedro road from SaltLake City to Los Angeles—or virtually four lines to theWest coast. Between the Union & Southern Pacific linesis the great Sante Fe System, which is nominally inde-pendent but supposedly, at least, much under
. Elements of transportation, a discussion of steam railroad electric railway, and ocean and inland water transportation . ific line from New Orleans and Galveston to Los An-geles and San Francisco, the Union-Southern Pacific routefrom Omaha and Kansas City via Denver, Cheyenne, andOgden to San Francisco, the Oregon Short Line from SaltLake City to Portland, and the San Pedro road from SaltLake City to Los Angeles—or virtually four lines to theWest coast. Between the Union & Southern Pacific linesis the great Sante Fe System, which is nominally inde-pendent but supposedly, at least, much under the influenceof the Southern Pacific interests. Two additional Pacificlines are under construction. One is the AYestern Pacific,being built by the Gould interests, to extend their Denverand Kio Grande System from Salt Lake City to San Fran-cisco. The other is the Kansas City, IMexico & OrientRailway, which, when completed, will join Kansas Citywith Topolobampo near the mouth of the Gulf of Cali-fornia. This will be our ninth line to the Pacific has one and is building another. The construction. 26 ELEMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION of four transcontinental lines at the same time shows thatthe West is making rapid progress. Grouping by Ownership and Ccntrol.—The account justgiven of the territorial grouping of American railways re-veals the fact that each of the seven sections has one or twoespecially large and powerful systems or federations ofroads. These systems have been severally built up by afew individuals of constructive genius, aided by powerfulfinanciers and banking interests. Thus it is that the rail-ways of the United States, though operated by many com-panies, are mostly controlled by a small number of financialinterests; and it is possible, and highly instructive, togroup our railways according to ownership and will be seen that this classification corresponds broadly,though not closely, with the territorial grouping. Themaps accompanying this
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