The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-31
UNION PACIFIC EXTENSION.
An Interview with Mr.. Sidney Dillon-He Says
He Knows Nothing About 1t.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch
NEW YORK May 3O.-"There's nothing in it at
all, young man. When you get to be as old as
me, you will not believe all run0rs you hear
The Union Pacific has enough to do to attend
to what it has at present"
Thus spoke Mr.. Sidney Dillon, one of the
Union Pacific Railroad company, to-day to the
Examiner correspondent. What Mr.. Dillon re-
ferred to was the report which had been float
ing around Wall street the past few days that
the Union Pacific would Immediately extend its
system from Ogden to San Francisco.
But, Mr.. Dillon'' said your correspondent.
'hasn't your company just completed a survey
to Red Bluff, California, and was not it thought
at one time that the Union Pacific would build
from Phoebe, in Nevada, to Barstow or San Ber-
nardino You, of course. are aware that the
engineering corps said such route was fea-
sible -
why, my dear sir said Mr. Dillon, there
probably have been twenty surveys in the past
few years. Because survey has been made, it
doesn't follow that railroad will be built on
such o route
do you recollect Mr. Dillon, the report cur
| rent about four months ago that the Union Pa
cific would probable absorb the Carson & Colo
! RADIO railroad and make connections with both
ends of it and so reach San francisco"
| II never heard of it, remarked Mr.. Dillon.
] New stories about the company are coming up
almost every day. They are so common that
pay very little attention to them. You may say
that the Union Pacific will not try to have Il
| terminal at San Francisco, at least, for the
company is satisfied with what it has got now.
| OF course what may be done within the next ten
| years do not know.
Don't you think Mr.. Dillon" said your
correspondent, that the Santa Fe or
the Atchison, Will push over and
soon reach San Francisco? 1t has a
| big system now since it has absorbed the At
lantic & Pacific and the ST. Louis & San
Francisco
''We1 surely don't know, was Mr. Dillon's
reply. But do not think the Santa Ee will
| attempt any such thing The company is an
immense one now andmy advice, not advice ex-
actly, but idea would be that it would be a great
| deal better If the company should devote its
profits to paying dividends instead OF building
another expensive line. Besides, L think
! there are enough railroads entering San Fran
CISCO
Your correspondent called at the Office of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe on Broadway.
One of the officials, who didn't want his name
mentioned, was sanguine over the prospects
that his company would soon have a line run
ming into San Francisco. Said he: THE Allan
tic 81 Pacific now belongs to us. We will con
meet that route at BarStow with that new line
that runs through southern California. AT Least
that is what I think will be done. I'm not al
liberty to speak afficably; our next meeting
will be held June 12 and then undoubtedly plans
will be mapped out and some action taken. Al
least that is the opinion OF the street and it i:
my opinion also"
At the office OF the Union Pacific three block:
further up Broadway one of the officials evi
IDENTIFY had different views from Mr. Dillon
The gentleman in the Broadway office though
it likely the Uuion Pacific would go to the coast
IF the Santa Fe should move in that direction
we will also and I'd like 10 bet we will get ther
first Mr.. Adams in Boston probably knows
more than any other man what the compan.
intends doing