The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-05
In RAILWAY CIRCLES.
The Call For the Consolidation
Meetings.
THE FUTURE RAILROAD CENTER.
The Union Paeifc's Attitude Toward salt
Lake-Aillie Viola at Lake Park
Personal and General.

AS quickly as circumstances will permit
all the necessary steps are being taken
looking to the consolidation of the Utah
Central, Utah 81 Northern, Oregon Snort
Line, Salt Lake & Western, Utah s;
Nevada, Ogden & Syracuse, Idaho Central
and Nevada Pacific into one corporation.
The question has been under consideration
for some time, but in this as in all other
matters, large bodies move slowly. In an
other column this morning appears a notice
to the stockholders of the Utah Central,
which reads as follows: ''Notice to the
stockholders of the Utah Central railway
is hereby given, that whereas the several
boards Of directors of the Utah Central
railway company, the Utah & Northern
railway company, the Oregon Short Line
railway company, the Salt Lake 81 Western
railway company, the Utah 81 Nevada com
pany, the Ogden g. Syracuse railway com
pany, the Idaho Central railway company
and the Nevada Pacific railway company
have entered into an agreement subject to
the approval of the stockholders of said
companies for the purpose of consolidating
all of said eight companies into one cOrpOr-
alton; now, therefore, you are hereby
holders meeting held on the 18th day of
July, 1889. at the hour of l o'clock p. m. of
that day in said COmpanys Office in the
Deseret National bank building. in Sa
Lake city, Utah, for the purpose of consid-
eriDg said agreement and for voting for the
adoption or rejection of the same"
1t would seem from the above that the
consolidation, which is now looked upon as
fixed fact, will take considerably wider
range than at first proposed. When the
idea was first presented, some months ago,
the Utah Central, the Utah & Northern
and the Oregon Short Line were named as
the three roads to be included under the
one general management; later, the Utah
" Nevada and Salt Lake & Western were
named as being among those to be included;
now, 1t would appear that even the spur
known as the Ogden Il Syracuse, and the
Idaho Central are to be included In other
words, every line in this locality in which
the Union Pacific has an interest, save the
main road, is TO be merged into one corpor-
alton, and, necessarily, operated by one
head. The headquarters of this western
system, will, of course, be in Salt Lake,
which the Union Pacific, in connection
with other roads, running branch lines
north ufrom here, has always looked
upon as the real terminus of their lines, as
Is evidenced by the establishing here of
their general offices, shops, roundhOuses,
etc. 1nere IS scarcely DAY passes IN
which some evidence does not appear to
confirm the statement made recently by a
director of the Union Pacific. and pub
lished in these columns, that his road
would, in the near future, do something
handsome for this city. The statement
recently made in these columns that it
would not be many moons ere Salt Lake
would be of more Importance to the Union
Pacific than Omaha is now, is being rapidly
corroborated.
Let the doubters doubt, let the croalzers
croak, let the jealous rage, and suburban
sheets fill their columns with abuse, the
question has gone forth: Whats the
matter with Salt Lake:'' and the reply
comes laundering back. "ShQ's all fightE.