The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-11-20
AMERRY WAR BEGUN
The Fight Against the Union
Pacific Inaugurated.
NOT BOYCOTT, BUT RETALIATION.
I'll Round Trip Tickets OF Number o.
Roads Reading Over the Union Pacific
Ordered Withdrawn.

CHICAGO Ills, Nov. 19.-Oficials Of the
Atchison, Burlington, Rock Island, Colo
RADIO Midland, Rio Gran5e Western end
Denver & Rio Grande roads, after con-
ference OF nearly a week, have at last de-
cided on q method of dealing with the
Union Pacific on account of its failure TO
divide business with them al Denver aud
Ogden instead of the Missouri river. An
agreement was reached this afternoon
which resulted in the issuance OF the fol-
lowing joint circular. signed by the general
passenger agents of every one CT the ABOVE
named roads:
ITO connecting lines: The Union Pacific
railway system has by its curren t
and existing regulations prohibited the
issue Of any one way and round trip tick
cts reading In part over the undersigned
lines, or made the sale of such tickets
practically impossible, thus closing to our
lines and our various connections impor-
tant gstewsys that were formerly open to
US, and implying by its acts a desire to de-
crease an interchange of business with the
company. In view of these facts, you are
respectfully requested &c remove from sale
all round trip tickets. or orders for the
SAulet over Tue uHQerSlgn6u lines
any perCon or which reads over the Z mon
Pacific railway as such tickets will not be
accepted by the undersigned roads if sold
after Nov. 30, 1892"
While this is not boycott 1t is form of
retaliation that is calculated to make the
Union Pacific vince. A considerable por-
ton of the California business is done with
round "Trip tickets, and not one in hundred
of these tickets is made to read over the
same line coming and going. Passengers
have the privilege of going one route and
returning by another consequ entity the
Union Pacific has shared very largely in
the profits CT this business This new
agreement win deprive it OF any portion of
such traffic, which will now be given to the
Southern Pacific Rio Grande Western and
Denver q Rio Grande and Colorado Mid
ls~d lines.
Two or three years ago when the boom
was at its height in the northwest and
thous snds of people were focking TO Ore
gon, Washington and Puget sound points,
the Union Pacific entered into g fight with
the Northern Pacific over business. 1t So
licited the aid of the Rio Grande Colorado
Midland and Denver and Rio Grande, d.
viuing the rate with them on ali traffic ex-
changed at Ogden. Last January, without
previous notice. it issued q circular to the
effect that it would hereafter claim its full
local rate on traffic delivered Il at Ogden
lot TIE Eacluc COAST JOlnbS. subsequently
il declined to accept through tickets by
way Of Ogden. Still later IL announced
that it would divide certain west-bound
business with its connections at Denver,
but that on all east-bound business it would
insist on the haul to the Missouri river.
AT this point the Trans-M Missouri lines
reaching Colorado points became alarmed
and tried TO prevail upon the Unicn Pacific
TO modify its order. Ia this they failed,
and the action they took today. they claim,
was literally forced upon them The Union
Pacific refused to divide Oregon and Wash
ington b1piuess with them at connecting
points west of the Missouri river, and
now they will refuse to share their Cali
fornia business with the Union Pacific SO
far as they are able TO control.