, 1898-12-10

OutSrCWn thelr usefulness, Dull >. II. II
| Clark, you know what kind Of a mar
he is, hadn't the heart I turn them
out so they remained as sort Of pen.
sloners.
81 don't a any mar on the pay
rolls who is not earning his salary,
President Burt said, and the doom Oh
Mr.. Clark's proteges was sealed from
that moment.
Il don't know whether there is any
reduction of salaries with that of title
in abolishing the office OF general SD
perintendent on each division and max
ing it simply superintendent.
President Burt seems to want to
put as many Northwestern men in
places of responsibility under him as
possible. Superintendent Harris Of the
| Wyoming division was with the Fire.
mont, Blkhorn and Missouri Valley
railroad when Mr.. Burt was general
manager of that company.
ut is said that Z. C. Hughes, gener-
al superintendent of the Blkhorn, will
be given a high position on the Union
Pacific, but probably not rs Mr.. Dick
inson's successor. l am told that MIR.
Burt will assume the title as president
general manager; he is a stickler for
details and wants to look after every
thing himself. l wouldn't be surprised
to see the Short Line come into the I'm
ion Pacific with MIR. Huges as general
manager.
THE Union Pacific has the most adj
~vantageous line between the Missouri
river and the coast, as far as 1t goes,
but the trouble is it does not go through
to the coast. The Union Pacific is go
ing to do on of two things-it is
forced to-either build a line of its own
through from Ogden to the Pacific, or
lease the Central Pacific which is now
operated by the Southern Pacific. The
Southern Pacific Is the greatest mo-
nopoly in existence. 1t owns Or con-
trolls by lease everything on the coast,
from railroads to all the ferries and
the street a lines in Sacramento and
San Francisco.
Under the terms OF its lease the
Southern Pacific agrees Ito pay to the
directors OF the Central Pacific all the
earnings OF that line in excess Of the
operating expenses. Its policy is to
build up the southern route by sending
everything that way, passengers as
we'll as freight. This division Of traf-
fc naturally belonging to the line be-
eween Sacramento and Ogden is Just
that much dead loss to the Union Pa
cifc and that road can't stand 1T.
at will be a comparatively easy task
to build such a line now. compared with
what 1t IA when the Central Pacific
was completed. The cost would be
immensely less. for the Union Pacific
could haul its own material as far as
Ogden and follow its construction gang
from there on"
What route would be followed from
Ogden?"
Probably the same as the Central
Pacific. Roads have been paralleled In
the east a great many times. Why
should they not in this case? The Gem
trail Pacific might hold on to its right
of way, 200 feet wide, but It's land grant
could be condemned the same as any
other property. It would be necessary,
occasionally, where the Central Pa
cifc has built ON one side of a gulch,
for the Union Pacific to build on the
other. and in the Sierra Nevada noun
tains, where there is not room for two
a new route would have to be
followed.
But 1 do not think the company will
be forced 70 this. 1 think when the
first mortgage bondholders Of the Gen.
trail Pacific insist IN a foreclosure, the
owners Of the Union Pacific will either
bid the property in or arrange to lease
it when 1T is sold.
THE Southern Pacific is no able to
divert all the traffic to its lower route.
There are some shippers With insist on
their c~onsignments being sent east over
the Central Pacific route and some pas
sengers who wont go any other way.
Then, too, the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe will have its own line into
San Francisco mex summer and that
will break the Southern Pacific's mo-
nopoly OF the coast trade. So 1t is pos
sible that by the time the bondholders
insist on foreclosure Of the Central Pa
cifc property, the Southern Pacific will
be content to 1t let 30 to the Union Pa
cific by purchase or lease, especially
with the alternative OF seeing a line
imminent.
"Once in possession Of a line through
to the coast the Union Pacific will have
no trouble in earning a ratr interest
on the money invested, even though
the fixed charges should remain as they
are now. a. heavy az they were before
the road was sold under foreclosure
and passed into tine present hands"
ACCORDING TO STRICT REGIME.
Railroad men report that the wyo-
ming division Is being managed accord
ing to a strict regime. Every slight de-
lay is Investigated or any irregularity