Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-12
DENVER VIEW OF A SALT LAKE VICTORY.
Says Utah Got the Name and Chairman, but
Colorado Will Get the Real Plum.

Denver Post: The Utah lines have
been fooled n trip. They came to Dem
yer with the determination to capture
the headquarters of the new Colorado
Utah freight association for Salt Lake
City. In the toss-up they won by two
votes, but lost far more important
project which Will now be successfully
manipulated without opposition.
Freight officials who have been con-
versant with the proceedings of the
meeting now in session at the Brown
Palace hotel are congratuiating them
selves on having exercised diplomacy
worthy of Tnlleyrand. They are fur
nlshlng La Famas, with the genuine
rings around them, lucifers and small
star-cut cocktail glasses in room 2i1
and the conference Is pleasantly har-
monious In veil of tobacco smoke.
Salt Lake City with becoming modesty
has accepted the headquarters and the
added prestige from a railroad point of
view.
Immediately after the conclusion of
the meeting, which will probably be this
evening, a call will be issued for an
other meeting to form a Colorado Cali
fornia freight association, which Will re-
suit in the formation of an entirely new
and important railway organization,
productive OF new tariff between Pa
cifc coast points and Colorado common
points. The headquarters of the new
association will be In Denver The
freight official who indiscreetly d.
vulged the information stated that in
all probability p. j. Flynn. chairman
of the Colorado railway associations.
will be elected chairman and the origi-
nal plan of the Colorado roads will be
carried out in regard to forming an
iron-bound agreement and dictation
of Western business.
The question of headquarters caused
n brief debate although all of the
freight representatives in attendance
declare that there was no dissension
whatever. Denver lost by two votes,
the oregon Short Line, the Rio Grande
Western and Union Pacific each speak
ing in behalf of Salt Lake City, plead
Ing its location and advancing the ar
gunent that Denver has already two
or three associations of her own, while
Salt Lake City has heretofore been
passed by as gateway of Importance.
When the vote was counted c. H.
Griffin, mt the head of the Salt Lake
traffic bureau, was declared chairman of
the reorganlzed Colorado Utah associa-
ton, which has been practically dead
since the dissolution of the Western
Passenger association last year. When
the rate sheet came before the meeting
for checking II was understood and
agreed that the new association shall
apply only between Denver. Colorado
Springs. Pueblo and Trinidad, Colorado
common points and Salt Lake, Ogden
and other Utah common points. The
traffic Is unimportant between he two
traffic is unimportant between the two
most of their business from the tribu-
tary country. The sheet was re-Ghecked
in several and some important in
stances. The rates on ore from Utah
ore shipping points to the smelters at
Pueblo and Denver We're not changed
The rates are 81 per ton.
The new traffic sheet win be publish
ed In the latter part of the month or
April LIST 1t viii become effective on
the date published.