, 1901-10-10
POSTAL
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE CON-
PANY WINS IMPORTANT
SUIT.
Judgment Against Oregon Short Line
That May Be Far Reaching In Its
EHects-Suit Pending for Right Of
Way Along Union Pacific Through
Wyoming.

Yesterday morning a dispatch from
San Francisco was printed which stat
ed that the circuit court of appeals had
reaiiirmed judgment in the case of the
Postal Telegraph VS.. the Oregon Short
Line railroad. say the Salt Lake Tri-
bunc of the 9Th. This is practically the
end of the legal battle and the Postal
is now in Il position to build its line OIL
the right of way of the railroad. When
asked about the probable effects of the
decision. Judge o. w. Powers, who is
counsel Tor the Postal Telegraph COM
pany. said yesterday: The decision
of the United States circuit court of
appeals at San Francisco yesterday. in
favor OF the Postal Telegraph and ca
bic company of Idaho and against the
Oregon Short Line railroad, is n of
great importance to Salt Lake, as well
as to the Postal Telegraph. AS a re
suit of this decision the right of the
Postal company to build its telegraph
line along the Oregon Short Line rail
road from the Utah State line to the
Montana State line is confirmed. But
the decision accomplishes more. There
is a suit pending in the United States
circuit court for Montana, between the
Postal Telegraph and Gable company
of Montana and the Oregon Short Line
involving the right of way from the
Idaho state line to Butte. AS Montana
is in the same judicial jurisdiction as
Idaho, and as the same questions are
involved in the Montana case as were
involved in the Idaho case. the decis-
ion at San Francisco virtually deter
mines the Montana case in favor of
the Postal company.
In May last the supreme court of
Utah. in a case between the Postal
Telegraph-Cable company of Utah and
the Oregon Short Line, rendered a de-
cision giving the Postal company the
right of way from Salt Lake City to the
Utah state line. 1t will, therefore, be
observed that at least, and after our
two years of litigation, the Postal COM
pany will soon be able to build north
from Salt Lake City to Butte. there
Postal east and west, and giving to the
people OF this section additional tele-
graph facilities and a competing line.
The main fight has been fought out,
and just as soon as the remittitur come
down from the court of appeals, and
the Montana cast disposed of, the Post
al company is ready to proceed with
the work of construction.
There is a case pending at Ogden
involving the right of way between Og-
den and the Wyoming State line along
the Union Pacific. That ease will soon
be disposed of as our supreme court
has decided all the questions involved
i'll favor of the Postal company. Pro
Ceedings are about to be commenced
for the right to build through Wyoming
and thence on through Nebraska to
Omaha. with a connecting line from
Cheyenne to Denver, and it is the pur-
pose to build west from this city to the
Pacific coast. | think that in the early
spring the line will be opened to Butte
and thus connection made between Salt
Lake City and the many thousand Off
ces of the Postal Telegraph-Cable COM
pany."
Business men generally hail the
coming of the Postal with delight, as
il will not only better the telegraph
service at reduced rates but is another
move in the general plan for Salt
Lakes improvement and added to the
prospective railroad and telephone con-
struction, will go far toward making
this city the great commercial center
of the intermountain country.