Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-01
UNION DEPOT
UP ONCE MORE
Meeting Of Geo. Gould and E. h.
Hartman May Take Place
In Salt Lake.
GosSIPS DRAW CONCLUSIONS
Relieved That one station After All
Will serve -Four Railroads Here
A. First Intended.

Is salt Lake going to have two de-
pots OF oneo For months and months
after the could and Hartman systams
selected salt Lake as a stragetic point
and admitted they believed 1t TO be lha
railroad center Of the west this ques-
ton was asked and reasked and never
answered point blank. True 'iou'd
bought some ground ana had 1t clear
ed and laid some track for ireight
cars to move and back over ia bringing
in material and carrying out dirt. but
there has been no real construction
work done A hole has been dug wnlcn
can hardly be termed a piece of cXca-
walton for after digging the company
allowed it to I'LL with water and the
weeds are high and rank on the depot
site Now the light is beginning to
break on some people. The appeal
made by Gould for assistance from
Hartman begins TO make certain peo-
pie sit up and take notice Tor it now
looks like a big get-together scheme,
Gould has had trouble with his ran
roads because of financing. His sys-
TENS have been pegging along with
less equipment than needed and what
he had was not up-to the-minute
So now, according to recent DIS
patches, 1t Is going TO be Hartman VINO
VIII save the Gould systems. Gould
will probably retain his titles and some
voice but 1t win be Harrman's money
which win do the most talking and
whose words will be law,
All this Is practically what is be-
lieVed by the nation at large SAT-
Lake is vitality interested for 1t may
mean great change from announced
plans for this city. The Harrman de-
pot may serve four railroads and If TINS
Is to be, Salt Lake will have one or
the most elegant depots in the United
States, The Gould depot site can be
used for Rio Grande yards. And with
Hartman having IA word to say IN
Gould matters the appointment or Of
tcials fo- the Western Pacific Is going
to be thrown in doubt. The whole rail-
road history of the west IS going to re-
ueive q jolt and jar but not neces-
sarily for bad; in fact, inasmuch as
Hartman makes a railroad out of al
most everything he takes under his
magic spell, perhaps for better. SAT-
Lake may be the scene of n meeting
between Gould and Hartman for the
two magnates are botu bound for the
west and both are certain to come TO
this city and In all probability, to-
gether Small wonder Salt Lake is on
tip-toc with expectancy.
TRANSCoNTINENTAL RATES.
san Francisco, Aug. 1.-The Santa
Fe and Southern Pacific roads have be-
gun the printing of their transconti-
rental freight rates as ordered and viii
nave them ready 10 go IN force Nov
l. Officials OF the roads explain that
these rates viii make the charge on
hauling goods consigned to the orient
the same for the trip to the coast as
That on goods consigned to Pacific
coast points. Goods inbound from the
orient, however, will go east from the
coast at a lower rate than that paid
by domestic shippers using the rail-
roads only as there can be no ques-
ton of the discrimination of rates
raised, Steamship company officials
say that in order to hold the Asiatic
trade they must have the power to
work with the railroads in cutting
rates. Without this, and with the
railroads taking a fixed charge ON all
freight from the orient, they declare
that they cannot meet the competition
Of foreign steamers.