The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-15
STILL ANOTHER STORY
Orphan Short Line to Be Sold to
the Union Pacific.
THIS A TALE FROM OMAHA
On the Other Hand b Salt Lake News
papers Are Extending h Short III
Into One of the Largest Sys-
TENS in America.

Line to the Great Northern. II was
then the turn of the Omaha papers TO
bring about the adoption of the line by
the Union Pacific. They tell o 1t
as follows:
There are indications of an imme-
date consolidation of the segregated
lines of the Union Pacific. w. II. Ban
croft, vice president and general man
ager of the Oregon Short Line, was
here from Salt Lake City to-day. Tues
day. to see President Burt. President
Mohler of the Oregon Railway & Navi-
cation spent Monday here Tor
the some purpose. 1t Is expected tnat
Frank Trumbull. receiver and general
manager of the Union Pacific, Den
yer and Gulf, will be here later In the
week to talk over the absorption of the
line from Julesburg to La Sale by the
Union Pacific, which Is expected TO
take place on Oct. /. President ana
General Manager Mohler of the oregon
Railway & Navigation company to-day
arrived here for a conference with Hor-
ace G.. Burt. president of the Union Pa
cifc system. The two presidents spent
some time together during the morning,
but nothing was announced as a result
of the conference.
THE belief that the Union PACING
will soon be restored to its former
greatness is growing throughout rail-
way circles. The careful inspection or
the Oregon Short Line, the oregon
Railway & Navigation companys lines
and part of the Union Pacific, Denver
and Gulf roads by President Burt n
other leading officials of the Union Pa
cifc during the last fortnight has APP
parently corroborated the reports mat
many of the old branches of the over
land route that became independent
during the receivership OF the present
road, would return to the fold. rehabil-
itating the Union Pacific system to the
position it once occupied.
"Officials of the Union Pacific decline
to discuss the probable time for the
absorption of the former branches, but
they significantly call attention to the
fact that officials of the branches. VINO,
about a year ago, were loudly proclaim
ing themselves against the Union Pa
cific. are now turning up with some
regularity at Union Pacific headquar-
tiers in this city and consulting with
the leading officials of the parent line
here"
While the New York. st. Paul and
Omaha wise men are selling the Short
Line at regular intervals OF a rev
weeks. the Salt Lake newspapers are
extending the Orphan road into n OF
the greatest systems in America. the
Herald is just now engaged in building
the line from Milford. Utah, to Los
| Angeles. 'In all probability, there Will
be something heard from very soon in
connection with the extension of the
Oregon Short Line south from Milford,
says the Salt Lake paper. The Herald
announced some time & that a new
deal had been made with Hon. A. w.
McCune as one of the parties, and that
David Eccles and he. aided by other
capitalists, would construct a line
southwark toward the extension which
- -. I,,;I. f-Ata nG AnonlpG in this
direction.
THE contract was made and sent to
Boston for the approval of President
Carr. Inquiry in quarters where infor-
nation is generally obtained elicits in
formation to the effect that nothing
has been done with the contract. This
Is construed to mean that the same has
not beer forwarded to this city after
igning for now comes the important
information that a party or engineers
i'm the employ of the Short Line will
leave to-day for the Southwest, going
as far as Milford by rail.
THE outfit includes two ~buckboards
and a four-horse outfit, with a com
plete camp paraphernalia. The men
who are to do the work come from the
North. The party expects to be gone
six weeks, and that it will penetrate
into the desert country in the south is
evidenced by the fact hat the wager
Is prepared to carry a supply of water
across the arid districts. Supplies will
be brought in this city to-day, and the
entire outfit will go out together.
zone of the men composing the party
says 1t will take six weeks to complete
the work which they are sent out to do,
which is about the time which would
be required to nah the journey across
the intervening space between the road
north from Los Angeles and a point 81
miles south of MILFORD, making the
necessary surveys meanwhile.
The contract which has been made
with Messrs. Eccles. McCune ct al.
provides that they shall do the grad
ing and lay the ties, the Short Line &c
furnish the rails and rolling stock
Something has been in the wind fol
several days past, n in all probability
the party goes to make the fol
this line.
"If this information is accurate, and
there seems to be no reason for u
ing it. ii will mean a great deal fol
this city and state. because ii meant
that a road is going to be CONSTRUCTED
from this city to Los Angeles. The of
fcials of the Short Line have main
tanned for some time that III a road
was built. that company would be th'
one to construct IT. and nerhaps th'
dreams of these gentlemen are to b.
realized.
When President Mellen of the North
ern Pacific returned to st. Paul a few
DAYS ago. he made a statement rela
tive to the recent purchase of the Spo
kane Northern. in which he contra
dicted statements made by other Off
cials of the road and denied the diff
ferent published stories that the North
ern Pacific was the purchaser of tn
Washington line. The Pioneer-Pres
says:
president Mellen said that he un
r.a1A u NnFnan a. Co hAl
bought the Spokane Falls & Norther
for the Great Northern n not for tn
Northern Pacific. This statement wi
be a surprise to most people, for II wa
widely reported that the Spokane lin
had beer bought in the interests OF IN
Northern Pacific n only nehemiah
to benefit the Great Northern. But tn
Northern Pacific will be benefited In
cidentally by the Great Northern's con
trCI of that property.