New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-16
RAILROAD NE US.
THE WARFARE IN COLORADO.


WHAT EX-GOVERNOR EVANS SAYS OF THE con-
TEST BETWEEN THE DENVER AND RIO GRANDE
AND THE DENVER AND NEw-ORIEANs ROADS.
Ex-Governor John Evans, of Colorado, pres
ident of tho Denver and New-Orleans Rail
road Company, is in the city. Recently he talKeu
with TRIBUNE reporter regarding the suit brought
by his company against the Atchison Topeka and Santa
Fe Railroad for 81 600 damages, mentioned IN THE
TRIBUNE Of Saturday.
"The Constitution of Colorado" said Mr. Evans, " re-
quircs all railroads in the State to connect and do bus
ness with each when their lines join. 1t also pro
hbits Determinations among them The Atchison, Win
other roads, agreed that they would not do any business
with any road competing with the Denver and RIO
Grandc They have, under this agreement, for year
refused to do business with the Denver and
and thus injured 1t greatly The United States DtricV
Court, judges McCrary and Hallett concurring, mas
recently decided that this contract was void In the IAN
guage of the Court, 1T Is enough TO say
that IL is conspiracy to commerce aud suppress
the building railroads in two great
and Kansas The Court has decreed and epjoned tnst
the Atchson Company must do business with our road
and the terms 1t does with other roads, Inc
Atchison Company has now entered into new agree
ment to nure the Denver and New-Oreans, which Is
palpable evasion of the injunction of the Court 1t s TO
stop this evasion and damages for the past
injury that this last suit for $1oO0o0o damages Is
brought"
Mr. Evans referred TO misrepresentation Of the posi-
ton of his company which declared had been put into
circulation by its rival "For instance" he said, lone
newspaper says that the agreement Of the Denver and
Rio rande to take cents per 100 pounds for its share
of through freghts from Missouri River points TO
Denver when its share had been SO cents out OF So 40
per hundred, has obliged the Denver and New
Orleans to accept similar proportions and renders
it unable to compete with the Denver and Rio Grande
The truth is that the former pool rate OF division was
for thirty ays after decree of the United States
Court promulgated and until the day after II went
into effect The Denver and Rio Grande now agrees 10
give the Atchison 4S cents per 100 pounds ou, 9I
SO cents which It was entitled to receive ana &c 70
give 81 So OF the S5 go each passenger carried
The Achison maintains its through rates on irelghs anu
passengers the same as oeIode anu Ir"Ts @ h
to Vade the of the United states Court In no way
compels the Denver and New-Orleaus TO take like pro-
portions or In other words, TO haul for nothing one
road Is entitled TO So go on each through passenger
and 80 cents per 100 pounds on frst-class through
freight which were its proportion Of the through rates
when the decree Of the Court was Issued Ii not tne n
junction from the United States Court becomes farce
for by such pocus arrangements as this agreement
TO haul for nothing one part and TO receive AL tue pay
ON fhe other part decree and an Injunction become Of
no effect. l hear a general expression OF surprise
that the Atchison, Topeka and Santa 70 should lena
itself TO such operation on the part OF the Denver
ana Rio Grande it IL the most vindictve railroad war IN
history of the country That road has used the most
desperate used in railroad warfare Andthe
present bitter and relentless tnat they
refuse all offers for fair cessation or hoses refuse
tOTesOrc make any pooling arrangement IN Iac
they will not even talk OF terms wlle we willing to
arbtrate IL we cannot agree And believe, unless their
stockholders interfere, will pursue this pocy until
they bankrupt their road dOno think 1t possible
for the Denver aud Rio Grande to pay It's interest II It's
management continues 10 throw or give away It's earn
ings IN such Il reckless manner" .. o,----
"Will they not bankrupt the Denver and NeW-OrIeans
Company first ~ -,
mo And If they do it will fall into hands that will
injure the Rio Grandc teDOld than the present
company 1t the most senscess contest ana tne
most suicidal policy the part of the Denver and RIO
Grande. 1t throws the earnings on the best part
Its track It cannot remove. Our line Is a
lrstciass standard gauge railroad In actual opera
tion built for ali time II the Rio Grande should sue
ceed forcing 1t to sale 1t will pass into hands that
will make 1t threeiod stronger rival IL hghts when
the odds all aginGt It, The Denver and New orleans
owes little except its own stockholders, aud has no
interest fixed charges to pay and earns even under
has an enormous bonded debt which TO prOYlCe the
interest and cannot afford TO throw away It's earnings
much longer. . =.
have 1t inside source and do not dOubt II,
that in the local passenger business alone the
Rio Grande loses 1000 day, ana on
freight as much more. Now that its management
proposes to throw give away the through
frcgnts and passenger ares to estimate that
the amount Will be doubled. making its losses heavier
than any road in the country stand"
You think that the Rio Grande cannot
break your company down by continuing tnls
enormous sacrifice for this purposeP
Il know they cannot. Our company Is local one;
threefOurths Of it s owned in Colorado and its manage
ment s all there. The company has not bond OUT ana
debts except to It's stockholders who have
far built ii with their money and are determined
complete IL through connection with the CUR OF
Mexico giving It outlet to the sea shorter by thou-
sand miles than to come TO tho Atlantic coast"