The herald., 1898-03-08
LOCAL RAILWAY NEWS
OVERLAND FREIGHT RATES TO
BE INCREASED
TALK FROM SALT LAKE
Extraordinarily Profitable Year for
the Southern Pacific-Hunt1ng-
toms Tariff Association

of commerce for the purpose OIL asking MT.
Huntington and the Santa Fe to reduce
freight rates on oranges. 1t Is urged that
all persons interested be present. AS
matter of fact it is probable that the grow
ers might as well save themselves the trou-
bic. for II Is dollars to doughnuts that they
will meet very polite but equally firm re-
fusal.
Uncle Colts is about to make another in
crease In overland rates. 1t Will be re-
membered that about two months abo ne
Increased the commodity rate about 50 per
cent Since then he has been steadlly az
work trying to secure decision OH the
legality of the Joint Traffic ASSOCIATION
which now governs rates, and on frlday oil
last week succeeded in SO far as having the
application of the attorney general to nave
the association declared null ana Vold TAX
en- under advisement by the ohiteo otdtes
supreme court. The association embraces
thirty of the large railways between Chi-
cago and New York.
If the association is held to be valid, as
all railway men believe it will be, then Mr.
Huntington will launch the new organiza-
ton which he has recently perfected ana
which Will rule all transcontinental rates.
He has at last secured the support Oh the
president of the Panama railway, WITHOUT
whom he could do nothing, and TINS, with
Huntington seems to control in every par
ticular will make his new transcontinental
association master of the situation.
Overland rates will be at once increased
to the limit, which is stated TO be ABOUT 20
per cent over the present ciassillcallohs.
The final touch to the arrangement was
made at a conference held last week In
San Francisco between Traffic Manager
r. l.. Walker of the Panama road and Mr.
Stubbs of the Southern Pacific. Mr.. Walk
er stated just before he left for New YORK
that the Panama road was getting too low
rates on business between San FRANCISCO
and New York. and that the sunset IS get
ting 50 per cent less that 1t used to before
the memorable war between the two lines
in 1893.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC PROFITS
Despite his cries of poverty, Mr.. Hunt
ington is making one of the best records of
management of the Southern Pacific that
the road has ever had. The twelve months
business of the line, e0ded with December
81, was the largest since 1897 and the re-
suits stamp Mr.. Huntington as the best
railway manager of the times, for it is a
showing that no other corporation in the
country can equal. During the time men
toned, the company earned $ooC00,JO JOO
gross and netted $lS763,403. This Is some
thing remarkable, for since 1893, when the
gross was s54, 1885, 729 and the net income
$19, ,541, ,202 the gross has not run over $40,
5S7, ,0cQ and the net $17 610, 1863. Mr.. Hunting
ton may be all that his enemies have paint
ed him. but figures show that he is beyond
question the greatest master OF transpor-
tation that the times knows.
SALT LAKE SOME MORE
A clipping from the Salt Lake Tribune
has been sent to this office with the re-
quest that it be printed. 1t reads as fol-
lows:
"A railroad is creeping slowly this way
from Los Angeles, and gentleman here
who was recently in that city was told by
one of the company that if Salt Lake did
nothing, still his company would build the
road, and added that big beginning would
be made this year. 1t seems most strange
that with all the wealth here nothing can
| be done. If the property owners would
mortgage their property at 10 per cent Of
its worth and build 2C0 miles southwest
this next twelve months, they would find
at the end of the year that their property
had advanced three times the amount OF
their mortgages; that, moreover, they
owned $4,000, 600 worth of railroad mileage,
and that their road was paying them a the
rate of 10 per cent at least on their invest
ment. We mean that it would pay that
percentage before any through connection
was made, for there are many individual
mines along the line of that road, and a
little beyond, that would contract to sup
ply each 100 tons of ore daily, while there
are many others that would have to put
up machinery on the mines
ON TO PASADENA
s. P. levitt, the engineer who has charge
of the interests of the San Gabriel Trac-
tion company, was in the city yesterday.
He stated that, as was expected, the Pasa-
dena city council committee, to whom had
been referred the matter of franchise
for the road, had replied that it was not
ready to report, which was in line with the
policy of objection made by the corpora
tions which seem to control politics in that
city, the Pasadena electric road and the
will be elected the 11th of next month, and
then the new company will have its fran
chise, as the people of Pasadena are almost
unanimous on the subject of letting the
new road come in, as we'll as to give the
Terminal the electric franchise it Wishes
as well as one to the San Gabriel Electric
Light company.
TRANSCONTINENTAL FREIGHT
The Transcontinental Freight bureau
will meet in Monterey on the 21st of this
month The Southern Pacific will be rep
resented by a constellation of stars, such
as Vice-President j. C. Stubbs, Freight
Manager William Sproule. General Freight
Agent A. D. Shepard. The Santa Fe will,
have Vice-President Paul Morton and
General Freight Agent Chambers of the
Santa Fe-Pacific. All of the other trans
continental lines will have their agents
present, and it is said that the chief work.
and one of prime interest to shippers, will
be the readjustment of rates and change
in many of the classitications.
NOTES AND PERSONAL MENTION
General Passenger Agent Byrne of the
Santa Fe yesterday received word from
Chairman b. D. Caldwell of the Western
Passenger association that a reduced rate
had been made for parties of ten west
bound via the Missouri river in solid tick
cts only. This, however, does not affect
Santa Fe rates.
G. w. Heintz, who is the assistant gen.
eral passenger agent for the Rio Grande
Western, and who has been making a
stay of some days here, left for San Fran
cisco last evening.
The steamship company Is selling great
numbers of tickets for San Francisco
where the Canadian Pacific's cut rates are
in effect to Boston and New York.
The Santa Fe has commenced the con-
struction of its branch line to the Grand
Canyon from Williams, Arz
The Santa Fe has made a change of
time, so that people in Randsburg can now
make the trip by rail between that place
and Mojave in three and one-half hours
time at a cost of So, making connection
with the Southern Pacific's overland
trains.
National City, who claims that General
Manager Nevin of the Santa Fe does not
like her any more, asserts that she will
pay into the Santa Fe treasury this sea-
son for fruit freight alone 100000.
Edward r. Claypool Of indianapolis, who