The morning call., 1892-10-08

up Huntington has evidently MADE up
his mind that the Sa Lake kaliroao
scberne has gone too far He is said TO
be trying to smother it.
When the San Francisco and Sat Lake
Railroad project was first talked OF the
Southern Pacific people smiled ana salo
they thought very little OF 1t. I. I. hunt
ipgton went so far as to remark that ne
could save the projectors all their trouble
BY giving them his Ogden line outright:
There was actually no money In ROAD
across "a great desert like that ana tne
Central Pacific did not pay It's axle-Riease'
de said 4 good deal of that sort
The projectors Of the line went 10
work in spite OF all Mr.. huntingdon
efforts TO cool their ardor, and before long
thew had money enough promised them TO
actually begin operations. 1hey Degah
than. They ran their preliminary line
across the great State of Nevada. ana the
more reports they received OF the prospects
of the line the better they liked the proJecI
in which they had embarked, Il ne Tns's
~ 0Ine desert" and made very pretty
picture Of the outlook for freight and other
traffic.
Tue scheme looked we'll.
IJlnlel
terested rubbed their hands over the
prospect. The experts clearly dem onstrated
that there would be local business enough
70 pay all the running expenses OF the line
the first year of its operation, and that the
through business. on which they woula
have the call, would be something enormous.
There could be no doIbt IN the world, and
there is yet none. that the railroad would
be finely paying investment MI. meyer
and his friends were moTs than pleased.
Huntington WASH L
The Southern Pacific magnate saw that
the Salt Lake Company was In dead earnest
II would build the road, There was no
doubt Of that. And il would control the
through rauScontinental traffic. 1t would
enter into no combinations. 1t would be an
ipdependeut line. 1t could not be choked
of BY sticking il into some pool or trafnc
arrangement 1t was bound TO give San
Francisco uuntrammeled overland railroad
system.
All this made Huntington thoughtful.
He began TO take a very strong interest
IN the new line. Furthermore, he made the
trip across the continent for the purpose OF
Investigating its merits. He investigated.
The more be looked into il the more interest
Ing it became. Why. San Francisco was
actually going TO have competing railroad.
That would never do.
Hunting ton stayed here and thought about
the road BE kept staying and thinking,
and The longer he did this the hrmer he
made I'D his mind that something would
have to be done, and that something right
on pretty quick" He thought at first that
he might let the building Of the line 90 on
and then buy il up afterward. Then anoth-
or idea struck him. He need not let it 90 so
far.
He might smother it in It's infancy,
So be began 8 correspondence to that end
with certain persons whom he thought
could do his little job He wrote several
letters and c received several replies. Some
of the replies were not encouraging. Others
gave him hope. He thinks now that before
he shall finally leave for New York the Salt
Lake scheme viii Dr. dead. But even Hunt
ington's plans sometimes 60 awTy. Several
have gone awry Of late, Ia fact.
And This one may.