The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-15
sANPETE COMPETITION.
MORE ABOUT THE UNION PACIFICs
LATEST MOVE.
The sanpete Valley Road Gets u
Square Deal at Last-The Latest
BY Wire.

The action of the Union Pacific in
notifying the Rio Grande Western that
on and after October II, they would
throw down the bars SO far as al
lowing the Sanpete Valley railway to
come in on haul and percentage, as
exclusively announced in yesterdays
Herald, means much on its face. With
out going beyond the lines of such no
LITIGATION, it means that commencing
on that date shipments destined for
points on the Sanpete Valley Will De
received by the Union Pacific and sent
forward the same as consignments
under the established rules Of inter-
change with the other lines, and the
little road will be allowed its full per-
centage of all such business on local
and through billing.
1t is now more than a month
since The Herald took up and passed
upon the rigorous mode as practiced
by the big roads in discriminating
against the Sanpete Valley, and it was
then shown in detail how it was
fenced in by both the Union Pacific
and the Rio Grande Western, and that
such arrangements come about
through mutual consent of the latter
two.
The Herald at that time advocated
a square DEAL" and 1t has come
about, thus confirming the position
then taken.
Neither the Union Pacific, the Rio
Grande Western, nor the Sanpete Val
ley people are in this hour inclined to
say a word ON the matter-a clam is
the peer of any of them in speech.
Anent the new conditions, there
might be written a story of the past
that would go far towards accounting
for the adjustable searchlight SO sud-
denly turned on. The pivotal features
Of that story would disclose how, in
the past, the Utah Central was in
many respects situated similarly to
the Sanpete Valley, and how the Rio
Grande Western had, in that instance,
mission to perform. But along about
the first of the year the Rio Grande
Western looked kindly upon the mar
row gauge orphan, little coquetting
was done from that until the balmy
month of June-when 10! something
come Of it, and ever since the standard
and the narrow line has been doing
business together in and out of Park
City. Add to this the fact that there
was a time when several interested
lines, and all their people, were quite
sure that John M. Egan would take
the Short Line, and how the prospec-
tive business was to be divided up,
but this falling, everything turned out
different with great big ID"
1t is even said, and on what appears
to be good authority, that while John
NJ. Egan was promising certain rates
under certain conditions, the Rio
Grande Western people had cut in
ahead of him so far as securing the
most valuable contracts on ore from
all the larger paying mines, and had
Mr.. Egan taken charge, it would have
turned out that other people had the
immortal cinch on the business, and
he would have been taught that while
he was stringing his wires, the r. G..
w. people had out-generaled him and
walked off with the business.
In the ethics of the latter-day rail-
reading, the move was brilliant one,
and stamps the Western people as be-
ing of the first water in outlining a
policy and playing for position. The
point played for, though lost to them,
was a fine one.