Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-03
new LINE IO COAST
1t Is Said the Great Western
Contemplates Establishing
Trunk Line.
May Extend Line West From
Sioux City to Salt Lake.
Utah.
Will Then Use the New Clark
Line to the Pacific
Coast.

ST. Paul, Sept. "a special from New
York to the Globe, which has until re-
Gently been James j. Hills property.
says:
There will be developments on the
western railroad map in the near flu
ture which will radically change the re-
lations Of the principal transcontinental
lines. An important conference has
been held in this city during the last
ten days between leading financiers, at
Which strong efforts are being made to
prevent the construction of certain
roads which would injure the traffic Of
existing companies. The cause of all the
trouble is the fear on the part of the
Union Pacific. Southern Pacific and
Atchison interests that President James
j. Hill and j. Pierpont Morgan, who
control the Northern Pacific, Great
Northern and Burlington group of
roads. will extend the Burlington to Salt
Lake City to make connection with SEN
ator William A. Clark's San Pedro, Los
Angeles & Salt Lake City railroad, thus
bringing dangerous competition into the
field for California business.
1T is stated on high authority that it
was the determination of Mr.. Hill to
carry out this program, which was the
original scheme of the Burlington man
agement before that road was absorbed
by the Aforgan-Hill interests. and that
was the cause of the friction with the
Harriman-Kuhn-Loe syndicate which
led up to the Northern Pacific panic in
May. The latter it is said, demanded
assurances that the Burlington would
not be extended into southwestern and
California territory, but Mr.. Hill, it is
reported. would not give such promises.
1t is believed that Clark obtained con-
tract from the, Burlington before he
formed his company and began to build.
1T was reported yesterday that the
Burlington would probably be completed
into Salt Lake City by the time Clark's
road is ready to exchange traits with it.
The important conferences which were
feld in this city were chiefly between
e'--~t~- S'i--i- 49, 1>-.,d
Messrs. Hartman, Gould and Hill on
the other. Representatives of the Chi
cago Great Western railway, which is
now building into Sioux City, and has
plans for extending further west to
Utah, also talked with Clark, and it is
reported on good authority that they
made contract with Clark to enter in
10 traffic relations with his Los Angeles
& Salt Lake road in case the two prof.
ects are carried to completion.
Much has been printed about Senator
Clark's project being an alleged hold
up scheme on the Union Pacific, South
ern Pacific and Atchison whose Cali
fornia interests would greatly suffer
from the construction of another rail-
road into that state OF late Hunting
ton. seeing what Clark was up to, had
joined hands with the other existing
railroad interests in trying to head him
Off
1t can be authoritatively stated, how
ever, that never was a project more
alive than this Los Angeles and Salt
Lake railroad, and 100 miles of the CAL
ifornia end will soon be completed and
in operation. Meanwhile Clark is fight
ing the Oregon Short Line in the Ne
Vada and Utah courts. His line paral-
lels portion Of the Oregon Short Line,
which is Union Pacific subsidiary
company, running south into Salt Lake
City for something like $50 miles, and
there Is not enough business for the
two roads in that locality.
Clark, 1t is understood, would buy
this division Of the Oregon Short Line
at reasonable price, but Hartman
would not listen to such proposition.
He said, in effect, to Clark:
Your road to California will not pay;
you had better drop the idea
Clark replied. 1t is said, that his road
would be built at all hazards.
Gould then tried to call him off the
new project.
What troubled Messrs. Hartman and
Gould was the knowledge. as stated
above, that Mr.. Clark had been confer
ring with James j. Hill. who had for a
long time greatly disturbed the peace of
Messrs. Hartman and Gould 1t was
Mr. Hill who compelled the Harriman-
Gould-Ku Loeb syndicate to buy a
large block Of Northern Pacific, the
contest for which resulted in a panic
last May.
Assurances had been demanded Of Mr.
Hill that the Union Pacific interests be
protected in the management of the
Burlington, which had just been ac-
quired by the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific, but Mr.. Hill would
not give them the desired promise and
they concluded to invade his camp.
1t now develops that Mr.. Hill then
had in mind carrying out the Burling-
toms original intention Of extending its
lines farther westward, with a view to
reaching the Pacific coast, unless 1t
could make favorable terms with one
OF the existing roads. There is ground
for the belief that the Burlington had
entered into an arrangement with Sen
ator Clark which was practically equiv
alent to a contract to build to Ogden or
Salt Lake City and connect with Clark 8
road. using the latter as a thru line to
California. There are still other COM
paniss which would like to make con-
nection with Clark's road, notably some
of the Colorado roads and the Rock
Island, which now has no I close alli-
ances for Pacific traffic. AZ an indica-
ton OF the amount OF trahic In south
ern California II was said that 2s,006
carloads alone were handled there last
season, and some railroads had to turn
business away from lack OF cars. The
| balance went by steamship to Northern
Pacific ports and east over northern
Itranscontinental roads. There IL also
rich mining and Agricultural regions
along the route Of clark,s new road.