The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-23
yOAKUM MAY TAKE
FRISCO TO HAWlEY
The Rock Island May Lose It's
Present Partner TO the New
Railway Wizard.
HILL MIGHT BE WILLING
TO ENTER COMBINATION
Atlantic, Gulf, Great Lakes,
Puget Sound, Mexico and
Canada System Rumored.

According TO private information re-
..oivod in salt Lake from New York
CITY, the Frisco lines arc liable TO
break with the Rock Island, and The
Frisco and the Hawley interests VIII
consolidate and form working com
5inatiou with the Hill lines.
p. +. Yoakum, who controls the
Frisco and Edwin Hawlcy. head OF inc
1000 mile new Hawley system, arc
known to be on very friendly business
terms. II also is known that Hawley
is seeking to extend and strengthen
his newlv-arraugcd string of rather
weak roads. and TO this end has been
seeking some connection with the pres
cn6 Rock Island Frisco system.
Although Yoakum and iIawlcy are
apparently coming to IN understanding,
A. is we'll known that the Moore
brothers who control the Rock Island,
will never consent To allow the whip
hand To 90 TO Hawlcy, and that Haw'
10y will not operate under the Moores,
Each wants TO head the proposed llaw,
lcv.Rock Island Frisco combination, and
mother viii give IN 10 the other. But
+; appcars that Yoakum is willing TO
20 the same relative position under the
Moorcs.
II such move is carried ont il will
rcsult in the isolation Of the Rock
Island and parting il from ITS most
valuable transportation partner, the
Frisco.
Hawley and Frisco Systems.
Thc Hawley system as shown by tho
map published in The Tribune several
weeks ago. reaches from the Atlantic
,,aaboard a Norfolk 70 the Pacific ocean
ut the new port of Stilwcll on the
western coast Of northern Mexico, and
from the gulf at Galveston TO the
Great Lakes at Chicago, Although
IIawlcy thus has a position enjoyed by
no other railroad system in America; lie
is by no means secure IN 1t and las
aroused powerful and dangerous en-.
rmies. His lines lace tho Mississippi
valley, touching Kansas City, st: Paul.
st. Louis, Shreveport and Cincinnati.
hui need other connections. These the
Frisco can supply.
Tho Frisco touches Memphis, Biz
,uingbam, in Alabama, with IT'S great
from ore tonnage, and, what Is perhaps
the most important of all to uawlcy,
ii would give him "A connection between
Galveston and New Orleans. With the
lines he now has and the Frisco added
TO them. ITawlcv would have feeders
ia the richest part of America without
an cdual. Bur even then he would
Jack far from an equal outlet TO the
Pacific AS the western port is far to
the south and hundreds of high McNi-
can mountains arc piled up in the way.
Hawlev needs an outlet 10 the Pa.
vi6c better than he now has and Hui
needs al the traffic from the south
aud middle west that he can get. This
is why Hill recently bought the Colo
4.
outlet from Montana TO the gulf al
Galveston. Also Hill has the best path
way To tho Pacific for two reasons,
perhaps three.
Hill Three Trump Cards.
The most important reason why Hill
has the best outlet is that he has the
ouly level track through tue Cascade
range down the Columbia river over
the north bank. The Oregon Railway
& Navigation company has just as good
2 possible grade down the other side
of the river, but between Huntington
and the river il must climb the Blue
mountains. one mile into the air and
down again y possible equal 10 the
Hill route eau be built by the Harri
man interests down the Suakc from
Huntington, hut AT tho present time,
and at least for fc wyears TO come,
Inc Hartman trains are under that
pared with the Hill line
Hill reaches the greatest narbor on
tho Pacific coast, Puget sound. The
route 20 Asia from any point on the
western coast of North America is
right up tho coast past Alaska and still
on n comparatively straight line down
aleng the Siberian coast TO Japan,
China and India Thus the Puget
sound barbors would save lIawley
freight over 1000 miles by sea down
the American coast to Stilwcll in
Mexico.
The third rcsson-a legal one. hut
one that willy old Hill may vet use with
unexpected but tremendous effects
that he is pushing the North Bank past
Portland, Or, on 10 Tacoma and Seattle
aud then on 10 Vancouver. Is. {. lie
viii thus cud in a foreign port and
pour freight more or less, free from
interstate commerce commission con
troll. right into the gateway Of hi,
greatest FiVal, the Canadian Pacific.
Il II understood that llawley see:
all this, and that Hill aud Hawlev real
ne that each has everything to gaiT
nnd nothing 10 lose by going into Z
friendly understanding. if not closcl
union W the present time Uawley
has not enough in the railroad worlt
10 command what Inc wants from Hill
but with tho Frisco welded 10 his pres
cnt system Hawlev viii he nearly oI
equal terms with the Great Northernc
and can make terms on a favorabl,
basis
\ combination of Hawlcy and tn,
Frisco system may never come TO pass
but II il - announced in tho near fu
iurc 1t VIII not be "A surprise in SOM
Informed quarters