The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24
THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE
How the Plan is Viewed at
Omaha.
BANCROFT AND THE PRESIDEN
CY OF THE NAVIGATION CO.
That Combination of the Union Pa
citic, Oregon Short Line and Ore
gon Railway 6 Navigation Com
pany-The Ogden Gateway-Latest
By Wire-Local Notes.

The Omaha World-Herald railroad
man is informed. semi-officially, that
the death knen of Edward McNeili's
administration on the Oregon Railroad
and Navigation lines will be rung June
l. when he will step down and out and
a. L. Mohler will become the general
manager of the system. This was fore
Swallowed several days ago in the
World-H Herald
Mr.. Mohler, who succeeds Mr.. Nc
Nein, is one of the old time railroad
men in the west, and is considered per-
haps the most competent man who
could have been selected for the place.
He had many years experience with
the Great Northern as general mana
ger, and is consequently familiar with
the Puget sound and Pacific coast bus
mess. He resigns as general manager
of the Minneapolis & St. Louis to go
to the Navigation.
Mr.. G1o.ller will simply be the gen
eral manager of the Navigation and
not president, Mr.. MCNEIL now hold
ing both offices. 1t was predicted sew
eral weeks ago, in an interview in the
World Herald, that Mr.. MCNEIL would
soon be relieved of duty and thai a
close compact would be made between
the Short Line and the Navigation COM
pany, with General Manager Bancroft
of the Short Line as president of the
Navigation. 1t is still believed in
Omaha and Salt Lake that Mr.. Ban
croft will be the president of the Navi-
cation, although it is understood that
this arrangement does not meet with
the approval of some of the directors
of both roads, but there is now no fur
tafr enfi lar1f
agreement between the Short Line and
Navigation will be made. if indeed 1t
has not already been reached, by which
the two roads will become as close as
twin brothers.
1T is. maintained by some that Mr.
Bancroft will not be the president OF
the Navigation, but that this viii in
no wav interfere with the agreement
between the two roads. Others are still
of the opinion that he will be the pres
ident Mr. Mohler is a vigorous general
manager and is thoroughly competent
to look after the interests of the Navi-
cation lines.
1T is said in Omaha that Mr.. Mohler
viii also have the title of vice DreSl-
dent of the Navigation, and this leads
many to believe that he Will soon be
made the president of the company.
AGAINST NORTHERN ROADS.
1.-THE belief has taken root in Omaha
that the two roads have become as one
to fight the Great Northern and North
ern Pacific in the northwest, and gam
the long haul for themselves, and that
for this reason the oregon gateway will
be opened allowing the eastern roads
into the territory, which will mean a
shut-out for the Union Pacific for a
vast amount OF the business OF that
country upon which the Union Pacific
now has a cinch. It is acknowledged
that the recent meeting between the
Union Pacific and Short Line officials
has come 10 naught.
The opening of the Ogden gateway
would let in the Denver roads via the
Denver 2 Rio Grande and Colorado
Midland to Grand Junction, and thence
by the Rio Grande Western into Salt
Lake, and then the Short Line The
opening of the Provo gateway to these
roads by the Short Line a few weeks
ago was a surprise to many. 1t is
through Provo that the big sheep and
wool camps are reached
There are some railroad men who
go so far as to predict that instead
of the Union Pacific absorbing the Short
Line and Navigation these lines VIII
absorb the Union Pacific. The trend
of late events they take as supporting
this prediction. They believe that when
the sale cf the Union Pacific takes
place the stockholders of these two
roads will become the owners of the
Union Pacific"