El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-12
ANOTHER CHAPTER ON g P.
The Great system Now But a Pigment
of its Former self.


The Union Pacific loses its greatest
feeder next Monday, 10 the formal seq
gregatIon of the Oregon Short Liue
and Utah Northern from its syst, ~.
This big feeder includes the lines h tn
ertO operated by the Union Pacific ly-
ing between Ogden and Huntington,
Ore. Butte and Helena on the north.
and Milford, Southern Utah on the
south, and was operated in connection
also With the Oregon Railway & Navi-
galion company, which operated b.
| tween Huntington and Portland by rail
and San Francisco and SiLka by steam
er. All this with the lines east of o.
den made of the Union Pacific one Of
| the greatest railway systems in the
| world.
The first hole was made in this vast
corporation when the Colorado lines
| we're cut off by the United States courts
through the action of Ex-Governor
Evans of Denver, and for several years
| there was great fight on for the re-
tentiOn of taese valuable properties. Bu t
| the Old governor proved LOO much for
/ the big corporation and now the Gulf
| system, that is, the Colorado lines, are
separate entity by themselves. The
| OregoniRailwav & Navigation company
WAS the next part to get pulled away.
| and now comes the snort ine. About
the only side line of Importance left
the Union Pacific now Is the Kansas
| Pacific between Denver and Kansas
City, and the Missouri Pacific is likely
to get hold of that.
The segregation of the short line
meaus the removal to Salt Lake of
| forty families from Omaha where the
| general accounts have been kept and
| where repairs were largely made. Ali
the machine and foundry work Is to he
done at Salt Lake, the new beadquart-
ers of the road, and Omaha is in the
| dumps. So, by the way, is Ogden.
| which is insanely jealous of Salt Lake,
AMI would have been only TOO happy to
| have cOrraled the new headquarters
| there.
But speaking of Governor Evans
recalls the fact that ''alI things come
to him who waits The Old governor
| started the Denver and New Orleans
| road, about fourteen years ago. This
| was regarded as little one horse, or
| rather half Il horse, six for cent line,
running out of Denver and fetching up
out on the alkali flats south of toe city
That this bit of track, the D & n. o.,
would ever reach its proposed destina-
| ton, the Louisiana metropolis, was
| laughed at by the railroad wlse-acres
in the Colorado capital, just as old
Noah was given the horse laugh by his
scOtfing fellow Syrians. But Noah got
there all the same, so ala Governor
Evans. His single train day ran into
the Union depot, the terminal company
| charged him 5000 month for the priv
ilege, and thought it would be good
day when the D & n. o. was fired for
| good from the Union depot premises
The old governor said nothing, but
paid his $500 and sawed whole lot of
| wood: he got in his work with eastern
and southern capitalists, and before
the scoffers in Denver realized it, the
governor had completed his interstate
| interpretations, and men were extend
ing the d & n. O. towards Texas. A
Texas corporation built the line
through the Pan Handle and into Fort
Worth, and traffic arrangements were
made with the Texas & rae lfic for di
rect New Orleans connections. The
big cattle convention held in Denver in
1888, was the success it was because OF
the opening of the new lire at that
time, as It enabled many Texas and
other southern cattle men TO b present
on short notice, and so the D. & n. O.
was a success. 1t is needless to remark
that there was an Immediate change of
front by the Union Depot company TO-
wards Governor Evans, and he has
Oeen held in great respect ever since.