The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-24
''KATY'' TO CAUSE
RAILWAY DIVORCE
YOakum Said to Have Thrown
His Influence Against the
Moore Bros.
HAWLEY WOULD UNITE, BUT
HILL WOULD DIVIDE ROADS
Great NOrtherner Said to Be
Forming a Huge New Amer
ican System.

| concerning the proDable combination
between Yoakum of the Frisco lines
and Hawlcy, with his newly arranged
| system, as outlined in The Tribune
| Tuesday morning, it is an open secret
that the possible split between Yoakum
and the Moore Brothers, who control
at present connected, came about over
stead Of to the Moores, and that
| Yoakum helped Hawley to secure the
| "katy,' instead of throwing his in.
fluence to his present transportation
partners.
Behind this move is another of more
far-reaching Importance. Hill, Hawley,
the Moores and Yoallum are apparently
playing a four-sided game on the rail
road chess board of the Mississippi
valley. At present Hill is alone, Haw
ley is alone, while the Moores and
Yoakum are together, but with Yoakum
flirting with Hawley and really holding
the trump card in the game, although
in some ways the least among the four.
1t is to Hill interest to split
Yoakum, with the Frisco, from the
Moores and the Rock Island. as this
Will give him two smaller factions to
deal with instead of one united. Haw-
ley object is the same as Hills,
10 sp!lI she present hoch lsidhu IiSco
combination, but opposite to Hill s
wishes, Hawley wants to join himself
and YOakum,
''Divide and Conquer
On the other hand, Hill apparently
wishes TO keep Yoakum out of the Haw-
ley camp, Hawley, on the contrary,
would unite himself. Yoakum and the
Moores into strong three sided unit,
us thus he could deal to better ad,
vantage with Hill. But the Moores will
have mono of Hawley unless Hawley
is willing to play second fiddle to the
Moore lead, which is Just what Hawley
insists that the Moores do, and that he
himself shall control the triple combi-
nation,
Thus any combination of Hawley and
the Moores seems out of the question.
| The only apparent way that Hawley
can get the Rock Island is to win
Yoakum. with the Frisco, away from
the Rock Island. thus isolatlng the
Rock Island. II by any means he can
GUST the Moores from the Rock Island
management. then Hawley may get the
Rock Island.
The Moores, however, seem hard to
force into the background, so for the
lpresent the play seems to he that
Hawley and Yoakum will unite, that
the Rock Island will be left very
lonely. and thai Hill hovers over all
three, Hawley, Yoakum and the Moores,
seeking to conquer them all by the sue
cessful old Roman method of 'divIde
and conquer
Meanwhile rumors that will not down
connect Hill with the Denver Rio
Graude and the Western Pacific. Off
cias, from ice.presldcnts down, on
: both these lines will talk with ap-
parent freedom I'LL Hill is mentioned,
when they promptly climb tree and
refuse TO say word or to be quoted
in arv way. II seems TO be a subject
they do not eni Joy talking about.
s Hill Building to California.
1t is well known, in spite of frequent
, and specific denials, that Hill is build"
ing up the Deschutes river in Oregon
straight as he can go for the head
z waters of the Sacramento river and
' down the valley into San Francisco.
/; connecting with several hundred miles
: that arc owned by the Burlington, a
Hill property. Also Hill is rapidly
connecting the Colorado Southern and
the Burlington TO his Great Northern
> and Northern Pacific by building few
: hundred miles of connections north and
south in Wyoming. These projects are
,, now under actual construction.
! All this has led railroad observers
10 predict that possibly Hill will be
/ able 10 unite the IIawley, the Frisco,
the Rock Island. the Denver & Rio
Grande and the Western Pacific with
his present lines, the Great Northern,
the Northern Pacific, the Burlington
and the Colorado Southern. thus giving
: him the greatest railroad system in the
United States.
There are also some indications of
harmony between Hill and the Harri-
man interests They have apparently
stopped fighting in the northwest.
especially over the entrances into Port
land, Tacoma, Seattle and up the
Deschutes river There are some who
even think that the Gould system is
about to be divided between these two
giants.
Hill may or may not have some
/, entering wedge into the Gould proper
ties in the west, but Kuhn, Loeb & Co,
the Hartman bankers, have Just under.
written $l75 100000 of Gould's Mis-
souri, Pacific bonds, Also Gould has
parted with n famous piece of family
property. the Western Union, TO the
Bell Telephone people.
If the Hill and Hartman interests
have declared virtual truce and dl-
vided Gould, ms many think to be the
case. and if Hill can win the four
sided chess game, with the railroads
for pawns, now on between himself,
Hawley. Yoaknm and the Moores, il
all may result in the willy old grizzly
of the north becoming the railroad
master of America and the actual sue