The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-11
CaIifornia-Utah Rates Must Be
Settled in Conference.
PROBABLY IN SALT LAKE.
MIR. MONROE WILL GO TO SAN
FRANCISCO TO CONSULT.
Garfield Beach Closes a Successful
Season-Large Shipments of Cat
tie and Sheep to the Kansas City
Mark0t-GenernI Railway Notes
and Personal Mention.

Traffic Manager Monroe, of the
Union Pacific, was decidedly busy all
day yesterday. What time was not
given to going over multitudinous mi
nor details relating to transportation
matters in general with Mr.. Eccles,
|. was consumed in listening and talking
to a great number of friends and bust
ness acquaintance who could not well
be denied audience.
A Herald man called upon Mr.. Mon
roe last evening, and while nothing 10th
to talk upon matters special and gen
eral in all concerning the Utah public,
yet he was unable to give out for pub
lication anything of great moment on
the situation as now existing.
As the matter stands but little can
be vouchsafed, and as The Herald has
explicitly stated from the outset, the
question of California-Utah rates must
be settled in conference and policy and
division must be the basis.
Mr.. Monroe goes from here to San
Francisco, and his meeting with the
Southern Pacific people will be the first
and really tangible step towards bring
ing together all the different interests
at stake. The trans-Missouri lines
have asked for representation and
asked that Chicago be made the meet
ing point The Southern Pacific fatty
refused such offer. They signif1ed a
willingness to come to Salt Lake. Mr..
Monroe favored Salt Lake. In so doing
he spoke for the Union Pacific and
possibly that lines eastern connections.
Beyond that limit he was powerless.
The Herald man yesterday called
TN,.off n Dol ar Of 70
Rio Grande Western, with a view of
getting some expression on the situa-
ton. Mr.. Babcock smiled serenely-in
fact, he smiled far more than he talked
for publication, saying only, so far
as our road is a. present concerned, we
are merely onlookers. There is Meth
ing for us to say at this juncture."
From out the traffic managers sunny
smile was borne revelation that il
lumined The Herald mans hitherto
murky mind.
President Weber, of the Utah job
| berS' association, was closeted with
Mr.. Monroe for an hour last evening,
and said afterwards: Il believe that
Mr.. Monroe will succeed in getting the
Southern Pacific people to take up ne
gotiations looking towards immediate
settlement of rates in our favor 1t
has been a long time coming about
We have been patient while made to
suffer every day since those rates
commenced to tell against our trade.
Zone thing is assured; i. e., if the
matter is not fixed up, all that remains
for US to do is to put on a line of
freight wagons between Ogden and
this city. However, a few days more
will determine what can be accom-
plished on the lines now working"
From all this it can ne readily seen
that much depends, not alone on the
meeting of the Southern Pacific and
Union Pacific representatives, but upon
how their agreement or suggestion is
received by other primal factors, who
can either affirm or negative the propo-
sition. The drama as being played
upon the freight boards will be
watched with eager, concern by all in
terested. An out and out declaration
on the part of the roads is all that is
left, and it must come speedily.