Buying up the stock of the Missouri Pacific he built up, by means of consolidations, reorganizations, and the construction of branch lines, the "Gould System" of railways in the south-western states.
By extensive reorganizations, and in spite of having to cope with a rising in Nandi, his commission resulted in the reduction of expenditure and increase of local revenue.
Many of the reorganizations and changes in the health service in the past three decades have been about structural realignments.
These assets had (due to a series of local government reorganizations in the area) become vested in the unitary authority.