Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-02-07
U. p. AND ROCK ISLAND.
The Alleged New Combination
Against the GouIds.

A special dispatch to the San Fran
cisco Can from New York has the fol-
lowing TO say regarding the rumored
alliance between the Union Pacific and
the Rock Island:
Important negotiations between the
Rock Island Railroad and the Union
Pacific and its allied lines. which have
been under consideration for some days,
the purpose of which is to give the
Rock island an outlet TO the Paciuc
ocean. have been completed. The com
pietion OF the deal is another step to-
ward establishing a harmony Of inter-
osts between the great railroad systems
reaching the Pacific coast IL was ad-
mitted by representatives OF both the
Union Pacific and the Rock Island to-
day that after several conferences In
which the Rock Island party, consisting
Of W. H. Leeds, NJ. @. Reid and w III.
Moore. and the Union Pacific commit
tee took part, the deal was concluded.
AS TO the details Of the scheme Nd its
scope. all interested were exceedingly
reticent. II was learned however, that
1t involves more than a tratlic alliance
and Il was limited that there had been
an actual purchase OF a part OF the
Union Pacific by the Rock Island,
through which an outlet to the Paciis
coast was TO be obtained. a
A glance at the railroad map Of the
Central West and Pacific coast territory
SHOWS the obvious advantages Of close
business arrangements between the
Rock Island system and the Union Pa
eiic system, by such arrangement the
Rock Island would gain an outlet to
the Pacific coast that Il has long de-
sired. The Rock Island ON the north
makes a junction with the Union Pa
ciic at Denver and It's traffic by this
route could reach Portland or san
francisco. while on the south the Rock
island joins the Southern Pacific az III
Paso and could thereby reach Los An
geles I'm Lower California
such deal viii open up the Pacific
system. which extends on the north 20
ST. Paul and Minneapolis; on the east
Ia Chicago, st. Louis and Memphis; on
the south 10 Galveston. and on the
west 10 Denver and III Paso.
An agreement involving the Rock ISL
and, and Union Pacific and the South
ern Pacific would represent a total
trackage OF nearly $4,000 miles The
lNNfh lNldill fiuildHA on NoFs l. AtN=s
owned and leased 1858 miles OF road
ana had under construction an addition
al 1924 miles The total lines owned
controlled and leased by the Union Pa
cdc company on June 80, 1909, aggre-
gated 1850 miles, while the Southern
Pacific company on the same date had
controlled, leased and affiliated lines ag-
gregatlng a total Of 9,62l miles.
1t was pointed out tonight that the
agreement between the Rock Island on
the one side. and the Union Pacific
Southern Pacific on the other would be
particularly significant as indicating a
himonizing Of important Western rail-
read interests II would affect. to some
extent, the recent schemes OF the
Goulds, which also have been directed
toward gaining a Pacific coast outlet.
Ii would give up additional connections
with ST. Paul and Chicago
The Rock Island company for some
time has had an arrangement with tine
Southern Pacific. with which II runs the
Golden State Limited daily 10 Chicago.
over rs own tracks 70 III Paso and
thence over the Southern Pacific to the
Pacific coast.