The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-19
UTAH CENTRAL EXTENSION.

The other day we reproduced the sub
stance of certain interviews with Union
Pacific officials at Omaha, who denied that
there was ever any intention of extending
the Utah Central to the Pacific coast. The
gentlemen seemed somewhat surprised
that anybody thought such extension was
contemplated, or probable. Now comes an
Associated Press dispatch from Boston
which makes President ADAMS say that
che never heard, outside of the news
papers, of the Union Pacific scheme for
building TO Southern California" Now,
Mr.. ADAMS memory is exceedingly short,
or the gentleman is something else as well
as an iceberg. He has heard of the scheme
for building to Southern California, and
many times has talked the matter over in
board meetings and privately. This much
we know We also know that for years he
opposed the project, not because he did
not think the road would be profitable,
but on the ground that the government was
worrying the company in such manner as
to make it announcement, if not impossible,
to undertake the work suggested.
1t is also known that engineers and experts
have been sent over the proposed route at
the direct instance of Mr.. ADAMS. THE
HERALD, Furthermore, has in its possession
letters over the signature of Mr.. ADAMS,
which prove beyond the possibility of
doubt that the gentleman has heard of the
scheme outside of the newspapers, and that
he was disposed to look upon it with favor
If the present intention is to abandon
the project and turn the attention and
efforts of the company in the direction of
the northwest, as seems to be the case, the
circumstance is not at all to the credit of
Mr. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS and his asso-
ciates. The chief inducement held out to
the stockholders of the Utah Central to
sanction the consolidation was the extern
sion of the Central Shareholders ac-
eepted less in the pool than they believed
their certificates were worth, because they
were led to believe that with a strong com
pany the road would be pushed for
ward to the Pacific as rapidly as
wisdom and the proper expenditure of
money could suggest. Why. costly
preparations for beginning the work
have been made, and with Mr.. ADAMS
sanction, and everybody out this way has
DCCu BdGlCLNlJ Nd4klh LAC udJ WITCH luC
announcement would come that the extern
sion was begun.
All connected with the roads, the Union
Pacific and the Utah Central, understand
that Mr.. ADAMS has been the obstacle in
the way of this important and necessary
undertaking. He has opposed it, just as
he has invariablyrresisted other schemes
which had for their object the develop
ment of the far west and the making of the
Union Pacific to occupy the position which
it should hold among the transcontinental
railroads He is entirely too narrow in his
ideas and too contracted in his views to
stand at the head of railway corporation
which should be without a peer in magni-
tude and Importance, and the sooner he
gets out of the way and gives place to a
progressive man whose mind is
wider than the streets of Boston.
the better will it be for the Union
Pacific and its branches and feeders, as
well as for the vast country tributary to
the lines of the company This is what
TIE HERALD meant the other day when it
animated that the return of SIDNEY Dill
LON to the presidency of the Union Pacific
would not give offence out this way.
We believe the Utah Central will be ex-
tended to the Pacific coast in spite of Mr. |
ADAMS. He may be able to delay it for
time. The present delay may be attributed |
directly to him; but it cannot be that all |
the Union Pacific people will remain blind
to the best interests of the company, nor
that they forever will permit an obstruc-
zionist u stand between their road and |
its greatest prosperity.