Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-10
SMART WORK BY
WESTERN PACIFIC.
How II Got a Dredging Company
To Dig Government Mud For
Its Grade.
STOLE A MARCH ON HARTMAN
Paradoxlcal Situation Whereby Gould
Was Actually Paying FOR Improve
ment of southern Pacific Property.

For the first time In the history Of
the Southern Pacific In central CALI
fornia It has a large and stirring fight
on It's hands. Always before when the
Southern Pacific has gone into an
open fight II has been with a small
adversary who was ultimately crushed
With apparent ease,
This time II Is n case " Hartman
versus Gould and the FIRST round OF
Southern Pacific versus Western Pa
cihc Is being fought out on the mud
flats IN the vicinity Of oakland, where
guards armed with shotguns last week
protected gangs OF tracklayers IN the
employ of the Gould road. The dis
patches have already told how the mat
ter has been carried into the courts
and handfuls OF njunctions resulted.
The Gould fighting blood Is w ana In
toresting Developments are scheduled,
The swarthy railroad promoter has
been In number of fights for so
young a man and to date has always
been victorious. His WABASH road re-
Gently fought its way into Plttsburg,
the originating point for the biggest
freight tonnage IN the world. Since that
from Piitsburg has been fighting its
way through Pennsylvania territory
yard BY yard TO the Atlantic tldewater,
These preliminary bouts have put the
challenger into condition and past ex-
perlence ~ being brought to bear on
the Pacific coast.
Gould proposes to have just as good
bay terminals and ferries at Oakland
az Hartman. There is no unseemly
haste about the matter. everything Is
being done In due order and with mark
ed secrecy
To Illustrate how every move on the
checkerboard has been figured out In
advance some interesting developments
have followed the dredging lnjunctIons
issued on Saturday.
The dredging company took the
dredging contract from the govern
ment az the lowest rate at which the
government has ever had dredging
work done In the harbor. Whereas
the government has paid In the past
from % 10 30 cents cubic yard for
material dredged from the bay and
estuary, the American Dredging COM
pany took its present contract for
lQla cents a cubic yard. subsequently.
when questioned as 20 how Il could
afford 10 take the contract for that
HilNfs bHt OF tUt pIltlAlS OF the NfeQB-
Ing company admitted that the COM
pany was receiving. IN addition TO the
l0h cents a cubic yard paid by the
government, ~ cents yard from a
RAILROAD company for all such ma
terni deposited In the area north OF the
training way. II now turns out that
the railroad company that has been
helping TO pay the governments bill
for dredging Is the Western Pacific.
Before the American Dredging COM
pany started In on It's contract the
Western Pacific was planning to build
pier out Into the bay along the north
training wall and Il wanted the
ground filled IN so that with some fur
ther filling, to he undertaken later, It
would have a mole similar to that OF
the Southern Pacific And IL was only
by means of its deal with the Western
Pacific by which It was guaranteed 10
cents a cubic yard for all material
dredged, that the dredging company
was able To make such low bid for
the government work and secure the
contract.
Thus was evolved situation quite
paradoxlcal in the extreme. The West
ern Pacific was actually engaged In
paying for the Improvement OF South
ern Pacific property. for while the
ureuslngs We're iinpounded, to some
large extent on property belonging to
the state. the title to some Of the prop
erty thus Improved rests in the name
Of the southern Pacific.
Thus the dredging company, by an
arrangement profitable to itself, finds
itself called upon 10 pun some of the
Western Paciiics chestnuts out Of the
fire. u was only the dredging COM
pany that secured an Injunction against
the Southern Pacific plle-drivlng actlv-
tiles ut the easterly bend Of the training
wall ON Friday night when It devel-
oped that these operations were de-
signed 10 thwart the plans OF the West
ern Pacific.