The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-11
WITH THE RAILROAD MEN
The U. P.'s Intentions Regarding
the Short Line.
NEWS is EXPECTED SOON
The Question of Open Gateways-Ths
First Railroad In the Un'tsd States
About to Be Abandoned-Com-
msnt and Personal Mention.

Union Pacincs policy In relation TO n
operation to the Oregon Short Lin will
be known next week. Mr.. Cornish. the
new president OF the Union Pacific il
expected I'm Salt Lake I'm the carly part
Line officials and IL will then be
known positively whether the ogden
gateway is to remain open or not. 1t
In claimed that at present the Short
Line officials are as much in ignorance
about the intentions of the Union Pa
cihc as n one. and there is a state of
great uncertainty and anxiety around
the Short Lin and Rio Grande West
ern offices. The only question on which
the Short Line people have no doubt
Is that under its Independent manage
ment and the open gateway policy II
has been developed into enc of the
best paying lines Of railway in the
West n its earnings are constantly
increasing. II. o. Wilson. general agent
Of the Short Line. who returned from
Salt Lake yesterday, says the earn
ings Of the road for last month show
a most remarkable increase.
On the gateway question. many
papers are advancing the idea that the
Union Pacific proposes to throw all
its gateways wild pen to other trans
continental ines. The Denver Times
has the following on the subject:
Under h new deal of the Union
Pacific the management seems inclined
TO disregard all affiliations. contracts.
business relations. ETC., of former
years and make a strong. bold sweep
for traffic from any source IL mas
begun to throw open its gateways, dis
regarding a former close contract with
the Northwestern. BY gateways is
meant places like Kansas City. Den
yer. Cheyenne. Ogden or any point
where other roads connect. Heretofore
the o refused to receive business
from other lines at these points and
compelled the Burlington, Santa Fe.
Rock Island and such lines to deliver
goods consigned to points in their ter
ritory at Omaha, where IL received
business from the Northwestern.
Under the new policy the road pro-
poses to take business from all OF the
they may deliver IL which. of course,
shuts the Northwestern out to some
extent. or places 1t at a disadvantage
compared with other lines.
In consequence of this IL Is a1w
claimed that the latter road. for its
own protection. is getting ready to not
only build to Denver, extending it's line
from Hastings. Neb.. but will also pene-
trate to the Northwest. constructing an
extension from Casper. Wyo.. to the
extensive territory beyond. In this
case the road will handle business for
the Rio Grande. the Colorado Midland
and HI Rio Grande to Ogden, making
the Union Pacific divide that territory.
Heretofore the Union Pacific con-
nection between Omaha and Chicago
has been the Northwestern. all OF the
traffic to or from Union Pacific terri
tory passing over that line.
Now the most startling assertion
made in connection with the move
ments of the Union Pacific is that the
Illinois Central will extend It's line
from ONeill, Neb.. connecting with he
Julesburg junction Of the Union Pa
cific, thereby making the shortest route
between Denver and Chicago"
The first railroad on which a locomo-
tive ever ran i'm the United States Is 10
be abandoned after 20 years of service.
This Is none other than the Delaware
a Hudson Canal and Railroad compa-
ny's Gravity line, extending from
to Honesdale. and crossing
the Moosic mountain between those
places by a series of planes. 20 i'm num-
Der. II was In 1928 that the famous old
"Stourbridge Lion" with Horatio AL
-" - 'ah' ~ Nhat III StTNlCt as a
throttle made her maiden trip over the
GRAVITY" which was destined to play
an important part i'm the development
the anthracite coal regions of Penn
.sylvania. Both the railroad and the
and Hudson canal will. Il is
officially announced, be abandoned on
l next. after which date the Della
ware * Hudson company will send its
to tidewater by way of the Erie
This announcement is of Pc
culiar interest to Philadelphians, be-
cause the Gravity road originated in
the attempt OF two residents of that
city. the wurtz brothers. who were pio-
neers in the Lackawanna coal regions,
TO get their coal to Philadelphia for the
purpose of finding a market for II. This
was in 1914. and they hauled coal by
wagon to the Wallenpaupack creek.
sending IL I'm arks through that stream.
the LackawaXen and Delaware to tide.
This method. however. was very expen-
sive. and the canal was projected from
Honesdale To Rondout. y. Y. and to get
the coal to Honesdale the railroad over