The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-11-19
ITS END HAS CONE.
TME PASSING o. TINE GREAT
uxsOS PACIFIC sYsTEu.
WIsAfs sixty Days Iss Dssseases-
meat VIII Ne CenpieteA-A Dssi IN
sh~ x~xs x<ssssn - CONGRESS -
ssss~ the osessssa Forever. snA
There IL Every ConaAenee Thst
he nan WIN De PISSED sna siga-
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RasaresA Coo0aDieat1eu 90 the
Ssrshwess.


7-h. s.sayes mail adsSres from Chicaro
arriving in this city yesterday contain tie
-ro~t o-rsnc,ss predictions rs 70 the future
~ sh@ 1-nscn Pacific. In speaking Of the
.Frno~. immediate dissolution Of the sys-
,@m the term .sthe Oregon river II used
xhsr the Columbia IS Intended Ihans-
fopsss'. r. responsible for the abuse Of me
,stIe: Mr. Bryan having said, where rolls
the Oregcn." meaning the great stream On
ssse southern Boundary of this state There
is nothing poetic in the report OF the Union
pa~sfr.s passing a. sin be seen In the fol-
lowing correspondence:
Within the next sixty days the dsmem-
fermsssf OF the once great Union Pacific
System will be completed Only the over
fso.fxAged debt-asrIed main line from
Council Bluffs 20 Ogden and Kansas City
10 Cheyenne will remain o. the system
river and the Gulf Of Mexico 10 the mouth
Of the Oregon river. and which maintained
THE greatest fleet which ever rode the Pa
cisc OCEAN Practically all the branch
lines east OF the Rocky mountains and IN
Colorado which were OF value 20 the Union
Pacific are row under Independent re-
ceivershsps. The Oregon and Washington
lines passed under the control OF an indie
pendent receiver nearly two years ago.
Now the main tine from Granger to Hunt
ington. aud from salt Lake 10 Butte and
Helena and from Salt Lake to the South
west Utah ard Southern Nevada territory
Is TO pass under another separate receiver
snip and into control hostile to Union Pa
cI.fc Interests
only the shell remains. II l. no~ pretty
well settled fhat the Union Pacific will
never be rehabilitated in the strength II
once had. Tue Great Northern. the North
ern Pacific. and Burlington influences have
wormed their way into these separate re-
ceiverships. and hsve secured such a hold
that never again can the great properties
now operated separately as the Fort
Worth & Denver City. the Union Pacific,
Denver a. Gulf. the Oregon Short Line &
Utah Northern. the Oregon Railway
Navigation Company. and the Pacific
Coast Steamship Company. be welded to-
gefher into one great combination 10 feed
and support the Union Pacific Some OF
the properties named will be maintained
In the future by the bondholders as indie
pendent companies. but the most important
OF them Will eventually pass under the
control or the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern and the Burlington. in one in
stance. as 9 joint ownership. ami in the
other cases a. the sole proper.y of the
road taking control.
AT the approaching session OF congress
ton corresponding for the govern
mens debt. and dealing with the question
IN every detai.--wiH be introduced, and
there Is every confidence on the inside IN
those posted in Union Pacific AFFAIRS that
this bill will pass and be signed by the
president This bill was agreed 10 by the
leaders IN legislation at Washington. and
the financial interests Involved las, win
Ter. bat has been held back 10 avoid It's
m hA
OF the Missouri river Immediately after
the legislation affecting the Union Pacific
y adjusted the main lines from counci,
Sums to Ogden and from Kansas CITY 10
cheyenne via Denver vii pass under the
control OF the Southern Pacific comnany
" goes without saying that the same hi,
which adjusts the Union Pacific matters
VIII also settle the government interests IN
the Central Pacific now a part OF Tho
Southern Pacific company.
The Southern Pacific will by these ,,aafs
complete It's mortgage on nearly ali caIi-
isTnia and the greater part or the trans
continental irafhc. The Southern pacia.
VIII continue the Union Pactsc.s present
aihahee with the Vanderbilt system by a
uafhc alliance with the Chicago a North
western VIA Omaha. and In addition hss
In contemplation an alliance With 80
southern railway via New Orleans Cor ,,s
sunset route. The hand of the Wander
outs u all powerful IN the new deal aus
ai1housn II canno; preserve 10 the linton
Pacific It's valuable feeders the yanaerhils
ssT.hs,n VIII probably show Itself through
:. flsfpont Morgan in backing the SOUTH
eFn Pacific with the financial ala neFas-
safy 20 arrange for the repaymen, ar me
government loans 10 the Union and Cen
trssl Pacific corpora tons
Ohe result or the cad or the dea. will
De u - said. cleaning out OF present off,
Gals ca the Union Pacific. sach as few
corporations have ever Witnessed. In an
ueipatlon or the approaching end the So
called tnion Pacific ring has for some ;in,e
been taking everything IL has been abIe
TO lay It's hands on. and the spirit Of dis
mS ntliag and Reorganization is so eiecriy
seated among nearly all on the Union Pa
Siiac system that the properly is fast be-
coming u ply steal as well az "a financial
wreck. The recent coal scandals the ex-
poss 81 which created snsn sensation
and which nearly caused the removal OF
one OF the highest officers Of the road. ana
which were not even denied are said Ia IA
only mild foreranner OF the scandals vsr
- be uncovered
The passing OF the Union Pacific and he
smemoernent OF the system VIII carry
via u some measure OF regret as TIA.
read and its connection west from Hunt
irston 70 Portland. the oregon Short Lane
opened np the first railroad communira-
ton with the Northwest There Is no
room for standardization in modern rail-
rad operations. and IN the rush og cvsry-
Gay life in this matter. rs TN al branches
X II = case 81 tire survival Of the attest.
tnsis the building % the Northern Pacsfis.
tyausecntiHsnfai connection from Seattle
ard Tacoma was made BY steamer 10
Portland or BY stages from Tacoma via
tis Fapis 10 Vancouver ard the Columbia
THE Oregon" All THIS was changed With
the couing Of The other roads 10 the
Northwest The Union raciae has en-
3eSed the assistance OF the sovernuer,
for long time beyond that fixed for tie
redemption 81 its pledges. and were IL no..
fof the hulsa}ag o. o;her tines II -aighs
stitl 10 IN tire same shape The pressure
% legislation was bgaaght 20 bear tGpoa
the pioneer traaseontiaeata. road and 1T
tle hy little It's possessions hava slsppei
away from y. Until only tae old name
ho}Bs the road togetAsr
It's slistaTy was interesting. ard thon-
sands 81 lives, perhaps. Mere lost in iavi-s.
the road over which the f3rSt frsn horse
vas driven thar looked aerexs the great
! Paetnc. Il nas Furnished volumes "a the
legendary fare 30 the ChsnHusAn o., the
Nast1Ss and aow. ike Faas more than
beast q burden who worked under m.
baking sun and through the gnsehe<
mountain Alga Win s-o~. ire unce great