Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-14

THE LOS ANGl
sidized lines from the subsidized system
and the placing of the non-subsidized
lines out Of the reach of the Govern
mont. against that day when the Union
Pacific shall be called to q reckoning from
which there shall be no escape. The name
of the consolidated system Of the
lines divorced from the Union
Pacific is the +" Oregon Short
Line and Utah Northern Railway Com
pany." 1t embraces the Oregon Short
Line railway, running from Granger,
Wyo. T., to Huntington, Oregon; the
Utah Northern railway, narrow gauge
road running from Ogden, Utah, to Sill
yer Bow, Anaconda, Butte City and
Helena, Montana; the Utah Central
railway, running from Ogden to Salt
Lake City, and thence to Frisco, in the
southern part Of Utah; the Utah and
Nevada and the Ogden and Syracuse
railroads. The general Offices of the
new system, which is a corporation by
itself, standing utterly Independent of all
other corporations, have been located at
Salt Lake City. The Oregon Short
Line is the Union Paci6c's route to
Oregon and Washington, and it con.
! meets with the Oregon Railway and
Navigation Company at Huntington. The
Oregon Short Line Railway is the lessee
of the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company, and the Union Pacific has
nothing to say to the Oregon Navigation
that does not pass through the hands OF
the Oregon Short Line. This consolida-
ton strips the Union Pacific of all its
feeding lines west OF the Rockies, leaving
nothing except the main line terminal
ing at Ogden. The officers of the con-
solidated system, as it is known here,
are all Union Pacific men, and include
President Charles Francis Adams, who
fills the same position on the Union
Pacific, and George M. Cummings,
general manager, also assistant general
manager on the Union Pacific. Edward
Dickinson, general superintendent Of
the Union Pacific is also prominent
figure among the stockholders of the con-
solidated system"
Here follows full account of how the
Union Pacific has generally managed to
keep the Government out of itg share of
the earnings of the road by means Of
leases and deals of very occult nature.
The purpose Of introducing these ex-
tracts here is merely to show the proba-
bility that the system is to be extended
to Los Angeles, and therefore matters
relative to other phases of the subject
are omitted. The letter goes on to say
"The immediate reason for the con.
solidation, which lie now in effect, is the
failure of the Outh waite bill and the
general outlook in the relations of the
Government and the Union Pacific The
details of the consolidation were ar
ranged by LIE Grande Young, of Salt
Lake City, nephew of Brigham Young,
who is one of the leading corporation
lawyers of the West. The complete
divorce of these non-subsidjzed lines
from the Union Pacific system is liable
to be followed by repetition of the deal
with the non-subsidized roads east of the
mountains. A more important develop.
ment is expected upon the completion of
the new Pacific Short Line, now building
from Sioux City west and from Ogden
east. OF course the OREGON Short
Line and Utah Northern rail-
must have an eastern outlet, and
if the Union Pacific should pass into the
hands of the Government or if the Gov
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of the Union Pacific little more closely,
able to pluck its parent so easily, which
would be inconvenient for the stockhold-
ers in the consolidated system. These
alton, and it has not been forgotten that
enough to build several main lines just
hat III a.,
now competing with other trsnsconti-
mental sslines which were built at much
less cost in the days of cheap railroads.
The Pacific Short Line is organized to
build from Sioux City to Ogden, it passes
through better country than the
Union Pacific and is many miles the
ehorter line. At Sioux City It makes
connection for Chicago and the East
with an much facility and as good result g
az does the Union Pacific at Omaha or
Kansas City. The Pacific Short Line
will also be in direct connection with the
Canadian Pacific system when COM
pleted) at Sioux City, and will thus be
able to raise more trouble for the many
associations to brood over. Here, it is
generally believed that the Pacific Short
Line is really the Union Pacific, although
the Union Pacific people laugh and say it
is really the Chicago and. Northwestern,
which is. slyly filing up the gap be-
ween the present terminus of it's system
at Fort Casper, in Wyoming Territory,
and Ogden. The Union Pacific people
also add to this story the statement that
the Chicago and Northwestern is going
through to the Coast and will make it's
terminus at Gray's Harbor, where it
already owns large dock frontage. This
story does not look probable, however,
when it is seen that the location of the
Pacific Short Line is through territory
where for some 500 miles it is the only
competitor Of the Chicago and North.
Westerns trans. Missouri extension, and
again the Chicago and Northwestern is
opposing the entrance of the Pacific
Short Line into Sioux CITY,"
Then comes the point in which Los
Angeles people are interested in these
particulars
"There is one thing, however,
that the Union Pacific people are
not saying much about just at present,
but that makes the Central Pacific pso-
pie feel very bad, and that is the Nevada