Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-29

SOUTHERN PACIFIC IS IN IT.
Hartman Road In Retallating on the
Missouri, Kansas 4 Texas Causes
Interesting Situation.

Railroad traffic agreements, like the
proyerblal Pie crusts' seem to be made
- no broken. Just prior to the COM
.,,,cament Of the year the slogan Re
..,rcbment" was the battle cry. Every
,,,r WAS cauked and concessions were
O,rtalled to the limit; every man, IT.
,.,rectiys Of the consignments he had
70 route, had to pay full fare or walk
The agreement seems to have lasted
t.,sly thirty days Ten days ago the
,a.s that any compact would be brok-
- would have been rldlculed. Today
mare are Indications that there is a
s,aot IN store all along the line, with
arst.cIass fight between the strong
u,ss 10 capture the merchants traffic
10 the east
The first break registered comes In
Connection with fares for merchants
with the Missouri, Kansas & Texas az
me culprit, and the seat Of the cyclone
"a Texas. other lines are reported to
have met the situation while the South
,rn Pacific, after registering a vigorous
rrotest waded in and threatened TO
demoraIlae things generally. 1t has
already announced an all-rail route at
,be low rates to New York In addition
10 It's steamship service.
In the accomplishment Of this the
Southern Pacific has brought about a
peculiar and unusual situation OF the
most aggrayatng character Accord
ing 10 the New York Commercial II has
induced the southeastern lines 0perat-
InR out OF New orleans To participate
in The reduced rate In this these lines
have stultihed themselves and gone
souarey back on a previous declaration
Of policy. when New York merchants
asked for special rate concessions to
New York from the southeastern lines
al the same time that commercial GEN.
ters In the middle west applied to the
southwestern lines, the southeastern
lines iatly refused to grant the request,
They have remained firm In that atti-
tude to the time when they Joined the
Southern Pacific
The position Of the Southern Pacific Is
not unique because this Is the third
time that Il has ignored an agreement,
adopting the SAME measures Is In the
present instance. Its competitors pro-
less 10 be much mystIhed. particularly
he Texas & Pacific, the Southern Pa
diCs rival IN north Texas. 1t has
never been able to get satisfactory
explanation, nor TO get the same con-
sideration from the lines at New Or
leans The Southern Pacific seems TO
have some inside pull, and It's position
Is strong because OF the cooperation
Of the cenlral-east and west lines OF
Texas It's move Is construed as
plan 10 attract merchant trade TO New
York In preference TO the middle west
BY us own lines the Southern Pacific
reaches San Antonio, Houston, Calves
ton, Dallas and Beaumont, BY taking
In the Central.east and west lines the
rate apples 10 Austin, Waco, Fort
Worth and numerous other cities OF i'm
poronce In Texas The movement Is
plainly calculated TO diminish the bust
ness OF other Texas lines TO commercial
centers In the middle west,
Another interesting feature of the
New York merchants rate Is that the
minimum required attendance II
waived, giving the lines concerned am
advantage over the lines bidding for