Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-04-17
SENATOR cLARWS OPPOSITION.

A. Clark has discovered that ''there are others" With the exception of the opposition he encountered from Marcus Daily, NIT. Clark has had things pretty much his own way and apparently concluded that with his millions he is 'it." Speaking of the recent purchase, by the Hartman people, of the Utah and Pacific road, line that would have fitted very nicely to NIT. Clark's Salt Lake road, the Los Angeles Express says:
 "United States Senator W. A. Clark has finally ran afoul of Wall street and the contest which has just begun bids fair to furnish more than one chapter of significant local interest for time, for the syndicate of finan- ciers now controlling the Union Pa cifc system appears to have started for Los Angeles with a chip of no ordinary dimensions on its mighty shoulders.
 "The Hartman people, as was stated in the Express few days ago, have obtained control of the Utah and Pa ci6c, the line which Senator Clark and his colleagues of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake railway had expected to utilize as an eastern term mus for their proposed road between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. The Express, at the time, stated that the absorption of this branch by the Southern Pacific Union Pacific com bination was the first real step toward checkmating, if possible, Senator Clark and his associates.
 ~Wall street has, as a matter of fact, not been taking the proposed new Clark road at all seriously. Senator Clark, having unlimited re- sources of his own, was not com pelled to go to ''the street" for as- sistance in fnanciering his enter prise, and the street could not realize that any such venture could be sue cessfuly launched without its aid. When the New York money market began to awaken to the situation, there was at first something of a smile of incredulity. A bait was then thrown out in chunks of assorted sizes first from one part of the country and then from another, that the new Clark road might be started, but that it would at the proper time be swallow ed up by one or more community of interests, which would be compelled to see to it that the enterprise did not become really a serious factor. Senator Clark, R. c. Kerens and their associates, however, kept right on in the even tenor of their way. They were not even disturbed, apparently, at the threat that after their line was in Salt Lake City it could not possibly obtain an outlet from there east. Then it was that Wall street awakened with shock.
 "The annual meeting of the South ern Pacific stockholders was held in New York one day last week. Presi- dent Chas. M. Hays was on hand, as were also the leading traffic officials of the Union Pacific. All of these various gentlemen explained the far western situation to the big New York financier present, and it was then and there resolved to fight the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake enterprise tooth and toe nail. As already stated, the first move in the new plan of campaign, was the requirement by the Southern Pacific Union Pacific interests of the Utah and Pacific.
 ''The conflict between Wall street and Senator w. A, Clark is in the meantime bound to attract no end of the attention throughout the coun- try, as it has suddenly been realized in the financial world that Clark is probably the one man who could af- ford to enter the lists with anything like fair chance in such a conflict as the one now on. Senator Clark is for the time being resting in the south of France.