Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-01
DENIES EVERYTHING.
Charles Francis Adams Fol-
lows This Method.
Instances Where He Did the
Same Thing Before.
He Says the Road Makes Surveys Just
for Nothing.
A Long Interview With San Francisco
Newspaper Reporter-Local Rail-
way Notes.

of the Union Pacific, has been carrying
out his favorite policy of denying every
thing. A month before the publication
of the fact that the Union Pacific had
bought the Denver, Texas and Fort
Worth, after the papers had all been
signed, Mr.. Adams, in the most public
manner, declared that no such purchase
had ever been contemplated and would
not be made. He played the same game
over the extension from Milford south.
He denied that the road had any inten-
tion of building it up to the very time
that the contracts for the line to Phoebe
were let.
A day or two ago Mr.. Adams spoke as
follows to a Chronicle reporter:
my visit to the northwest was merely
the visit of inspection which 1 make
every year, ard the matter of our extern
sions there was considered only Incl
dentally. 1t was determined to extend
our line from Portland to Tacoma and
Seattle at once, if the step is approved
by the board of directors. Besides this
line we will build one or two little spurs
to mining districts. All reports about
other Union Pacific extensions in that
country are mere talk. The company
does not propose to build any roads ex-
cept the ones speak Of The company
has no present intention of constructing
line into any part OF California, or of
coming to San Francisco. All the re-
sources at its command are required in
fields more legitimately its own. Its re-
lations with the Southern Pacific Com
pany were never more friendly than at
present, and affairs here, so far as the
Union Pacific is concerned, are salts
factory. The policy of the Union Pa
citic is entirely conservative one. We
realize, more perhaps than other lines,
that the Union Pacific and Central Pa
citic roads were constructed at the same
time, and the purpose for which they
were constructed can best be accom-
plished by their acting in harmony in
stead OF endeavoring each to destroy the
value of the other. When the Union
Pacific will build into this state depends
entirely on the contingencies OF the
future and on the course which the
Southern Pacific adopts toward the
Union Pacific. If the Southern Pacific
continues to deal with us in the spirit
recently shown the thing is good ways
nected with the railroads will commit
himself to any prophecy of the future.
He merely speaks of the present under
existing conditions. 1t is possible that
in six months every existing condition
will be changed"
When asked about the numerous sur
veying parties now at work in Southern
Nevada and California Mr.. Adams said :
"We have made SURVEYS pretty much
everywhere. We always have parties in
the field, and run lines in every direc-
ton in order that we may be fully ad-
vised as to the nature and possibilities
of country. But running line, in
our case, does not mean that we have
any idea of constructing on it. We have
run lines into California through Utah,
Oregon and portions of Nevada, and we
have them on file in the Office of the en-
gineer of the company"
The intelligent reader who knows any,
thing about the practices of railways
will regard this as very strange talk.
About the extension from Milford to
Phoebe, Mr.. Adams said;
1.-THE construction OF this line is going
forward as rapidly as possible. We al
ready had line from Salt Lake City
south to Milford and Frisco. The ex-
tension had insufficient business, and
our investigations caused us to believe
that an extension to the Phoebe mining
district would justify itself in connection
with the existing road. The only i'm
portant extensions which the Union
Pacific is now engaged in are the line to
Phoebe, 140 miles, and the one to Puget
sound, 1S5 miles"
Local Railway News.
General Manager Wade of the South
ern California line, has returned from
his tour of inspection.
Richard Gray, general traffic manager
of the Southern Pacific, and l.. M.
Clement, former superintendent of
track, passed through the city yesterday,
on their way north.
The railway offices of the city display
notice to the effect that rates will 90
up on the 9th of June.
1t is rumored that one feature of the
new division of the Santa Fe system,
growing out of the recent acquisition of
the st. Louis and San Francisco, will be
that the sphere of General Manager
Wade's operations will be enlarged to
take in the line as far as Albuquerque.