The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-07
A MEN TRAFFIC Alliance.
Important Deal Between Great
Northern and Oregon Lines.
OPENS UP A NEW TERRITORY.
K..s.a. Nebraska and Colorado to
Ne RrouRht into Close CONNER
rsaf Relations With Seattle and
the Northw~st-Sommo to
Ogden Gasewas-Wiu Help Scattie

The traffic departments % the Oregon
saorI Line and the Oregon Railroad q
Navigation Companies. working with the
Great Northern railway and the Rio
GFanae systems. have just completed a
traffic Arrangement which viii open up To
the Great Northern and the Oregon lines
g large and thIekiy populated section Of
tie country heretofore closed 10 the Great
Northern. The deal was made possible BY
the opening of that important commercial
portal known among railroad men and
shippers as the Ogden gateway.
To the shippers of Seattle and TO the
shinsIe and lumber mills OF Washington
on the line of the Great Northern and its
connections a new route TO the states OF
Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado is opened
Up by the arrangement between the loads
names; In the foregoing. The lumber and
shingles from the Washington mills des-
tined 80 the territory named have oeen
Toutea heretofore exclusively over tho
Northern Pacific and It's Burlington con-
aeciion at Billings.
The alliance entered into by the roads
named viii add greatly TO the prestige
enjoyed by Seattle a. The commercial and
chipping center OF the Pacific Northwest.
Last bound business. in the carrying Of
Humber. shingles and other products OF
Washington. may be expected to become
a matter over which there will be the live
iiest competition between the roads com
Drising the two routes.
LamLer Products Enlarged.
All OF the agencies OF the roads inter-
r
aid the Oregon Railroad Il Navigation
Company, together with the connections
OF these roads. may DC expected TO strive
Tor share Of the business that has gone
heretofore by way Of the Burlington from
BiIhaSs. New areas VIII be opened up
and the market for Washington lumber
products Will bee enlarged.
West bound osie of the effects of the
deal VIII be an Increase OF shipments via
the lines interested. of coal products from
Colorado. and OF corn from Kansas ard
Nebraska. Tie corn grown In Nebraska
and Kansas. adjacent To the Missouri
river, commands such price as to- make
Improbable It's shipment west by way of
81. Paul Naturally the Burlington MAIN
tanned an advantage la being established
In Western Nebraska where the remote-
ness from the Omaha market made Ii
possible to ship corn 10 the Northwest at
q proft. III this business the Rio Grande
system. the Oregon lines and the Great
Northern win heuceforth play a conspicu-
GUS part.
Notice Of the Application of rates 10 the
territory named. via the roads interested
In the deal, has been sent out from Chi
eago by the TFanscontinental association.
The tarin sheets have not yet been dis
trihuted. No change In rates is an
nnuDced
The steps that led TO the opening of the
ogiien gateway form "A distinct portion OF
the railroad history OF the country The
rost-tnteiligeneer has heretofore pointed
out the advantages that will accrue to
Seattle and the entire Pacific Northwest
BY the entrance OF the railroads of the
EAST through Ogden into this section.
Formerly the Union Pacific. controlling
the Oregon Railroad d Navigation Com
pany and the oregon Short Line, pre-
vented an interchange Of traffic from the
burlington, Rock Island and Missouri Pa
eiiic at Ogden. forcing the delivery Of
commodities TO IL at the Missouri river.
The Deal Closed.
For some months the traffic departments
of the Oregon Short Line, the Oregon
Railroad & Navigation Company and the
Great Northern have been figuring on a
traffic arrangement. resulting In the con-
summation Of the present alliance. Ben
Campbell. the traffic manager OF the q
D.. A n. and Mr.. Eccies traffic manager
or the Snort Line took the initiative stems
In the matter. At the hast fneetfu. Of the
iransConfinental association at ST. PAM
which Was attended by General Western
Freight Manager " l. Beuham. of the
Great Northern. the representatives ~
the roads Interested. closed the final de-
tails OF the arrangement.
Under the new routing lumber nro5ur.S
VIII he delivered 10 the O II & y n Sno-
kane by the Great Northern The Short
Line viii take them from the O H 4 Y
at Huntington, delivering the shipment
20 the Rio Graide system AZ Provo. Titan.
AF. Benham was asked yesterday what
smeSt the alliance would have on The
business Of the Great Northern. He satl.
The new arrangement between the Great
Northern ard the Oregon tines and ron.
nections viii open new route 10 Kan
Fas. Nebraska and Colorado for the shin.
ale mills on the line ~ the Great North.
efn and sts connections In washsngsof,
II VIII mean more hurinesS for this r. a.
and wider market fer the products oi
III" state I; Will prove u distinct aayan.
tasn 10 Seattle and Washington
Nj. +. T. Ellis general agent ~ ths
q II. 4 y said. 1.-The frnnn..e,rs ~ ths
traffic arrangement between the Gro.
Northern sud the - II 4 y and 4ha
Short Line is nut easily overrxttn,atss ,
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