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ith several branch lines and connections extending into tributary territory. A line of boats running between New York and New Orleans was also owned and operated by the Southern Pacific, and later the same ships entered the port of Gal- [226 U.S. 61, 81] veston, where also the Southern Pacific reached tidewater, and it had branches extending to various points in northern Texas, connecting with other lines of road. The Southern Pacific also operated, under lease, the railroad of the Central Pacific Railway Company, all the stock of which is owned by the Southern Pacific. The lines of the Central Pacific consisted of the road from San Francisco to Ogden, about 80!
0 miles, in length, and connecting at the latter place with the Union Pacific and the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company's line. It also had various branches in and about California, aggregating in mileage about 500 miles. The Southern Pacific also owned a majority of the stock of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, which operated a line of steamships plying to ports in the Orient ...