The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-16
OPENED GREAT NORTHERN.
TRAFFIC AGREEMENT MADE WITH
THE RIO 6RAyDE SYSTEM.
Arrangement VIII Throw Addioonsa
Business From Washington and
Oregon Through Ogden--o- H. & n

DENVER, Jan. I5--A trafic arrange
ment has just been entered into by the
Denver & Rio Crande, the fio GfahoS
Western. Oregon Short Line. the oregon
Railroad s. Navigation Company ana 'he
Great Northern. which VIII open UP -
channel heretofore closed between TINS
par, OF the country and that touched by
the Great Northern.
This deal will remain effective as long
as the Ogden gateway remains open
Heretofore the close alliance between tue
Northern Pacific and Burlington at Bill
hngs. and the lack OF arrangement be-
tween the roads forming the Ogden route
have tended To throw most esstnonhd
traffic from Oregon and Washington 10
the Northern Pacific.
BY the new arrange snt, however,
large percentage OF this business VIII go
through Ogden over the various lines con-
Meeting with the Rio Grande system, and
thus traffic will, OF necessity. coma
through Colorado.
No Change in short Line stocks.
NEW YORK. Jan. l5.-The Financial
Chronicle says:
Regarding the reported control OF the
Oregon Short Line and the Oregon RAIL
road & NavIga ton Companies by the
Union Pacific company through purchase
OF majority CT the stock or the oregon
Short Line, We are authov!tatively IN
formed that there has been no change III
the situation regarding the oregon snort
Line stocks since the Union PACING re-
organization acquired some weeks ago
block of stock amounting 10 s,4"Aeo
from the trustees of the collateral trust
mortgage OF 1881 securing Union Paeinc
gold notes is. While this block of stock
gives the Union Pacific a preponderat-
Ing holding OF the Short Lines stock.
il does not. We are informed. give thac
company a ma jority interest. nor is there
any intention 20 disturb the oregon KALI
road s. Navigation Company voting trust,
which runs until 1906. The importance
OF preserving the independence or ore
gon Railroad s. Navigation as terminal
in the interest Of three companies. Union
Pacific, Great Northe~n and Northern "a.
cifie, is thought 10 warrant the heller
that no one of these companies Will at
tempt an independent control.
TranscontinentaI Association Needed.
CHICAGO Jan. l5.-Thers Is some talk
of reyivins the old Transeontinental Pas
senger Association, and il is likely that
a meeting Will DO held in the near future
for thai purpose. The threatened trouble
over the Alaska business has stirred up
some OF the roads TO the necessity OF get
ting the old association into working or
der once more IL serious Generalization
is to be avoided. Just how the Canadian
Pacific. with It's demands for differentialS
on Pacific coast business and its antipathy
Of association, will become q member Is
q matter 10 be settled when the meeting
convenes but In some quarters there Is
a strong feeling that It will remain on
the outside. and that as long as II does
this there Is very little chance of forming
an association which will be satisfactory
10 all its members.
No Americans Need Apply.
TORONTO, Jan. 15.-The Ontario legis-
lature adjourned last night. and In its
closing hours passed a bill providing that
no persons shall be employed in the con-
struction of subsidized railways in On
tario who are subjects OF any country
which has an alien labor law which prac-
tically excludes Canadians from employ
ment on public or other works therein.
This means that Americans need not ex-
pect employment on Canadian railroads.
The legislature also passed the timber
regulations, which require all saw logs
cut in Ontario hereafter to be made into
lumber In Canada.
Compromised N. r. Taxes.