The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-07
RAILROAD WAR
Is NOW BREWING
Morgan-HiII Against Hartman
Gould People.
BASIS OF THE CONTENTION
PROPOSED SALT LAKE LINE OF
BURLINGTON.

a great railroad war is brewing with
Salt Lake as the storm center, if the
signs read Alright. The opposing forces
are the AIorgan-HiH interests on one
side and the Hartman Gould interests
on the other.
The extension of the Burlington &c
Salt Lake IS the basis for the entire
contention This is what started ftar
riman buying Northern Pacific carry l.
the year. precipitating the panic "hlc1
was settled by a compromise BY ths
terms of this compromise J. Pierpont
Morgan was allowed to name the diree
tbs of the Northern Pacific. 1t nov
develops that although the Hartman
interests may have a ms jorIty of thG
entire stock of the Northern Pacific.
| they are unable TO dictate the policy of
the Burlington. which is controlled
| Jointly by the Great Northern and the
Northern Pacific.
The Great Northern majority. act
| ing with the Northern Pacific minorit.
acting with HILL controls the policy
/ OF the Burlington. On top of this it is
| stated that the majority of the North
| ern Pacific board of directors will vote
| according to the desires of Morgan and
| Hill. This gives them another ire
\ mendous advantage, for the Hartman
/ holdings of Northern Pacific are prin
! cipally in the preferred stock, which
the board of directors can retire. 1t i
| rumored that such a step will be- tax
/ en- Jan. ].
To Extend Burlington.
Thus armed. the Morgan-Hin inter-
! ests are preparing to extend the Bur-
hngtOn according to the original plans,
SO as to connect with the San Pedro.
| The first move in retaliation by Har-
rlman was the opening of the Denver
gateway. announced in The Herald of
/ hH e - ~
more far-reaching than at first ap-
pears.
While at first blush it appears that
! the Rock Island, Santa Fe and Mis-
souri, Pacific Will also suffer by this
move, indications are that the Burling-
TOT may be the only line to suffer
seriously. The Santa Fe has line into
| california, and compensation can be
given this road by more liberal ar
engagements in regard to the California
traf1c, if this has not already been
done. The Rock Island will have its
cutoff into Ell Paso completed in a
couple of months, and deal for the
exchange of traffic with the Southern
| Paclhc is pending, while the road is
said to be preparing to extend its own
lines to the coast
Thus ample compensation can be
granted this road for whatever traffic
the new arrangement may divert to the
! Union Pacific east of Denver As for
=
not conflict with that of the Union Pa
cific so much as does that of the other
roads mentioned. AS it is a Gould road,
there is no doubt that some arrange
ments Will be made, if not already &C
complished, to take care of this road.
This leaves the Burlington the only
line running east from Denver which IL
not protected from the workings of the
new traffic arrangement. The best-in-
, formed railroad men predict that the
, Hartman lines aim to leave it high
and dry as much as possible, and it is
, rumored that this situation will be one
of the principal topics discussed at the
big meeting Of Hartman officials ii
Salt Lake, Oct. Is
Route of Burlington.
Meanwhile the Burlington is prepar-
ing to push work on its Salt Lake ex
, | tension. Concerning the route of thi:
l extension and the prospects, a specia
! dispatch from Cheyenne says:
/, The article from St. Paul concernin;
. the Burlington extension from Guern
: sey to Salt Lake is both refuted ant
: confirmed by conditions and work il
: Wyoming this year. The statement tina
? the Guernsey extension will run south
S west and pass through Laramie AM
. enter the north part of Colorado is no
E borne out by right of way plats filed il
? the Wyoming land Office.
t According to the surveys made ives
= from Guernsey and the right of wa.
plats filed, the ez tension will run south
: west from Guernsey in oroer TO pas
y southwark of the Laramie peak range
( J and from there almost due west to
S crossing of the continental divide nea
l. South Pass. then southwest to a cross
h ing of the Union Pacific near Grange
> Sweeetwater county, then through
e pass in the Uinta mountains to 'Grea
e Salt lake basin. This entire route wa
d surveyed and staked before last jun
!, and shortly afterward the right of wa
II platS, showing the route Of the lin
le through Albany, Carbon, Sweetwate
and Uinta counties were filed. If III
ie St Paul report is correct the right
g way viii pass through Albany alor
y Of the counties mined In addition
- the fling of the right of way plats, II
= Burlington has also filed upon an in
- mense area of coal lands in both A
bany and Carbon counties along Il
line shown in the DlatS filed. If the :
Paul route were taken the line wOu
pass from fifty to 100 miles south al
east of these coal deposits.
ii The route OF the extension, aft
" reaching Laramie. as outlined, is pr
ciselv the same as that of the Larami
h Hahn's Peak & Pacific railway, no
m in course Of construction. This 70;
an runs southwest from Laramie into Ca
~ bon county near the Colorado line, al
So then dips over into northern ColOrad
~ lust above Hahn's peak. The Lyons e
n
is would strike this road just north
ct North Park and but a few miles i
side of the Wyoming line.
Mt "A standardization of the St. Pa
es story of the route of the road is r
re NOR. which has been circulating pc
o. sistently, TO the effect that the Lar
TO mic Hahn's Peak & Pacific is not
d independent road backed by the V
on Horn Miller syndicate of Boston, b
he 2 Burlington project. backed by BJ
al Hngton money. When the rumor W
Ill first circulated the Van HOrn-Mi
I'M people refused to either deny or &C
py firm it. When the Laramie. Hah
lss Peak & Pacific was first projected
ne announcement was made that it woi
hS be narrow-gauge road, but within
re- past two months the plans W.
changed and che line is now bel
graded to standard gauge A sign
cant fact in connection with the ste
and the rumor that the Burlington
age back of the Laramie. Hams Peak
ORD Pacific. is that no Burlington surN
~ ~ has ever been made southwest n
lief Laramie. and that the Laramie, Han
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