The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-05
SALT LAKE GETS
MORE TOURISTS
Hartman Lines Open the Denver
Gateway.
HELPS RIO eRANDE ROADS
FREE INTERCHANGE OF PAS
sENGER TRAFFIC HEREAFTER.

The Hartman lines have opened the
Denver gateway. By an agreement to
this effect between the Hartman and
Gould traffic officials, a heavily in
creased tide OF travel viii be turned
through salt Lake, greatly to the profit
of the Rio Grande lines and the Colo
RADIO Midland This is another result
of the community of interests" policy.
The Oregon Railway & Navigation
company has already issued a circular,
received in this city, opening the Den
Yer gateway to the free interchange OF
passenger traffic with the Colorado
Utah lines. This means that a large
percentage of passengers who have
hitherto been diverted to the Union
Pacific between Ogden and Cheyenne
or Denver will pass through Salt Lake
over the Rio Grande Western and will
use either the Colorado Midland or the
Denver & Rio Grande between Grand
Junction and Denver. The action of
the o. r. & N. will be followed by
similar action on the part of the Ore
gon Short Line. Southern Pacific and
Union Pacific roads.
Heretofore passengers buying tickets
at points on the Hartman lines north
or west of Ogden have not been al
lowed free choice of route east of Den
YER For example, if a man in Port
| land wished to buy a ticket using the
forced to use the Union Pacific line all
| the way from Portland. He was not
permitted to come through Salt Lake
l over the RIO Grande Western, go on to
| Denver over the Denver & Rio Grande
/ or Colorado Midland. and then resume
his journey on the Union Pacific. As
/ a result, whenever a traveller was go
| ing to a place east Of Denver which
could be reached by roads other than
/ the Union Pacific and desired to pass
| through Salt Lake and traverse the
| mountains of Colorado and Utah, he
| bought a ticket over the Rock Island,
i Burlington. Santa Fe or Missouri Pa
! cific east of Denver.
The Rio Grande lines and the Colo
RADIO Midland have naturally used
every effort in favor of lines other than
the Union Pacific because it gave
them added business. Thus the Union
/ Pacific, while bolstering up its traffic
through Wyoming. has lost a great
deal of business east of Cheyenne and
/ Denver.
The new arrangement will allow all
passenger traffic to take its natural
course. without artificial restriction A
| passenger buying a ticket in San
| Francisco. Portland. Boise. or Butte,
for example, will have free choice of
either route from Ogden to Denver.
AS result It is expected that the Rio
Grande lines viii profit immensely, the
Union Pacific losing traffic on the
Wyoming division, but more than max
| ing up for it east of Denver at tie
/ expense of the other roads entering
! Denver from the east.
In the Oregon Railway & Naviga ton
company circular. which is immediate
ly effective. this condition is imposed:
Tickets must not be sold via the
Union Pacific to Denver. thence via
other lines to the Missouri river. or tC
intermediate points common with the
Union Pacific. or to points east Of Co
luu1bus. Kan. as the Union Pacific re-
QUires the long haul as heretofore.
Il is not known how soon the Ore
eon Short Line circular along these
lines wiz be issued. but it viii not be
long delayed. Traffic Manager Schu-
nlacher and General Freight Agent
Reeves of the Short Line were out Of
the city yesterday and General Pas
senger gent BurIev had no infOrma-
ton to in7Dart or this subject.
1t is said that the gateway may sOoT
he opened to freight rs well as Il
passengers