The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-26

OF the board or directors OF the Union
Pacific. Competition between the two
companies has been substantially elm
mated.
San Pedro Line.
1.-THE San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt
Lake road was projected as an indie
pendent line by w. A. Clark and his
associates, 10 run from San Pedro, on
tidewater in California, through Los
Angeles to Salt Lake City, having con-
nection at that point with the Union
Pacific and with the Gould system.
After the work of construction was in
progress the parties in control of the
Union Pacific. by means of harassing
litigation designed to prevent the ac-
QUESTION of necessary right of way
and by threats of paralleling the line,
If constructed, so as to render the same
Improbable. and by other means, in
duced Clark and his associates to
abandon the scheme of an independent
road and to join with the Oregon Short
Line, taking over certain track owned
and controlled by that company in
southern Utah and eastern Nevada,
and giving to the Oregon Short Line
an equal stock interest in the San
Pedro, Los Angeles & salt Lake road
with that held by Clark and his assoc
ciates. In addition. traffic, agreements
and contracts were made between the
San Pedro and various corporations
included in the Hartman. system, So
called, which deprives the San Pedro
of its independence and makes it in
effect a part of the same system.
Stock In Santa Fe.
LAS to the Santa Fe. which is COM
peting line with both the Union Pa
cific and Southern Pacific, it appears
that Mr.. Hartman and his associates
acquired sufficient interest in the Santa
Fe so that two members of the Union
Pacific board, to-wit, Messrs. Frick
and Rogers. became and still are di-
rectors of the Santa Fe: and the Union
Pacific, as a corporation. purchased
and still holds a large block of Santa
Fe stock. AS the result of the close
union between these lines, competition
has to a large extent been destroyed.
The Oregon Short Line is also a holder
of large amounts of stock of the North
ern Pacific and Great Northern Rail-
way companies.
Northern Pacific.
I'm pursuance of the plans of Mr..
Hartman and his associates for ac-
quiring control of transcontinental
traffic. the Union Pacific in 1901 Sc
Il
Northern Pacific Railroad company,
which later was turned over TO the
Northern Securities company. When
it was held by the supreme court of
the United States that it was Illegal
for the latter corporation. to hold the
stocks of the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific. a distribution was
made among its shareholders, as a re-
suit of which the Oregon Short Line
received from the Northern Securities
companies stocks of both the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific. The
latter companies are joint owners of
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad company, which is an active
competitor of the Union Pacific
through a large territory, and the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
are likewise competitors of the Union
Pacific"
Special Counsel.
The attorney general has engaged as
special assistants for the purpose of
this litigation Messrs. Frank B. Kei-
logg and COrdence A. Severance of st.
Paul. who acted as counsel for the in
terstate commerce commission in the
investigation above referred to.