The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
Expansion of Union Pacific Control

l steamers plying between San tfanclsco and Oriental ports.
 Expansion of Union Pacific Control. 1 With these properties as a nucleus, and
 with the credit based on these assets, the l Union Pacific has in the past six years
 SO grown in power and influence that at l this time it controls every line of rail- l road reaching the Pacific coast between l Portland on the north and the Mexican 1 border on the south, a distance as great 1 as that from Maine to Florida, excepting l alone the Santa Fe line, in which 1t has 1 large stock interest; and of his ability to
 take" this railroad at any time the law will permit MT. Hartman expresses no doubt Among the lines thus brought un- der the same control, in addition to the Union Pacific, Oregon Railroad and NaVl-
 gaton company and Oregon Short Line are these:
 The San Pedro line, running from Salt Lake City through Los Angeles to San Pe-
 dro on the Pacific coast, projected ana
 begun by Senator Clark, as an independ-
 ent line, which MT. Hartman stopped and absorbed.
 All the lines of the Southern Pacific company Ca holding corporation), ln- clude:
 The Southern Pacific (Sunset Route)' running by two routes from San tfan- cisco to Los Angeles, and thence through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana to New Orleans, with extensive branches.
 The central Pacific (ogden Route) running from Ogden to San Francisco from Roseville (near Sacramento) to the Oregon state line, with several branches.
 The Oregon and California railroad running from Portland to the California state line. which, with the Central Pacfic's Shasta Route" connects Port land with San Francisco.
 In addition the Union Pacific con trols every regular line of trans-Pacific steamships operated out of the Paeihc coast ports south of Puget Sound; also the Pacific Mail line, plying between San Francisco and Panama, and the Morgan line of freight and passenger carriers, operated between New York city, Havana, New Orleans ana GalVes- ton.
 MT. Hartman may Journey by steam CT from New York to New Orleans thence by rail to San Francisco, across the Pacific ocean to China, and re- turning by another route to the United States may go to ogden by any one of three rail lines, and thence to Kan sas City or Omaha. without leaving the deck or platform of ear which he controls and without duplicating any part of his journey
 He has further what appears to be dominating control in the Illinois Cen tral railroad running directly north from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes paralleling the Mississippi river, and two thousand miles west of the Illi- nois Central, he controls the only line of railroad paralleling the Pacific coast and running from the Columbia river to the Mexican border.
 Within a year his superior influence has extended eastward; the Union Pa cihc and Oregon Short line, have ac- ouired 10. 62 per cent of the stock of the Baltimore and Ohio, at a cost of $45, ,466, 960. and have invested $19,634,- 324 93 in New York Central and Hud- son River stock.
 That, it is only the law which pre- vents the confederation into MT Har- rimans hands of every railroad line lying between Canada and Mexico is the frank admission of MT. Hartman himself made at the hearing. Question ed by the commission as to where his policy of acquisition was to stop MT Hartman said.
 Q-Supposing that you got the Santa Fe?
 A-You would not let us get it. Q-How could we help it?
 N-How could you help it? I think you would bring out your power to en- force the conditions of the sherman antitrust act pretty quick. If you will let us | will go and take the Santa Fe tomorrow.s
 Q-You would take it tomorrow? A--Why certainly l would; l would not have any hesitation, it is pretty good property,
 Q-Then it Is only the restriction of the laN that keeps you from taking 1t? Al would go on, as long as l live. Q-Then, after you had gotten through with the Santa Fe and had
 taken it. you would also take the
 North ern Pacific anu Great Northern, | if you could get them?
 | A--If you would let me. Q-And your power, which you have, would gradually increase as you took | one road after another, so that you
 might spread, not only over the Pacific coast, but spread out over the Atlantic | coast?
 To gather under one head all exist | ing trans-continental lines. or as many | as possible and to exclude the incom- l ing of all competitors, become man | festly the Hartman policy, which was | naugurated in 1901 by the issuance | of $1O0, O00, 900 of convertible bonds by
 the Union Pacific. With the proceeds | of these bonds, the Union Pacific pur- l chases control of the Southern Pacihc ] company and q ma ajority of the out | standing stock of the Northern Pacific l Railroad company. which latter inci- | dentally carried with it control of one l half of the stock of the Chicago, Bur | lington and Quincy Railway company l the stock of which had been purchased jointly by the Northern Pacific and Great Northern companies and their collateral trust bonds issued therefor. Possession of these lines would have given to the Union, Pacific absolute mastery over every avenue leading to the Pacific coast within the United States save that afforded by the Great Northern railroad on the northern bor-
 der of the country and that offered by the Santa Fe on the southern. This plan, if executed, would have ubjected
 to a common will and policy nearly one-half of the territory of the United
 States-a comparatively undeveloped, | rapidly growing and extremely rich territory, into which must necessarily extend the population and business of the eastern states.
 It has been, however, no part of the Hartman policy to permit the proper
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