Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-19
TUMBLED ROCKS ON RIVAL OUTFITS
 ROADWAY
WITNESS SAYS PRICK AND HAIR. RIMAN VOTED TO SELL TO
 THE SANTA FEE
COMPETITION ENTIRELY DEAD
WITNESS IN MERGER SUIT SAYS SOUTHERN PACIFIC's TAG
 TICS BEAT ATCHIsoN

How the Southern Pacific Railroad
 has clinched its grip on the southwest | within the last two years by buying
 from the Atehison, Topeka & Santa
 Fe an all important link of road in | process of construction, came out at yesterday 's session of the government s
 suit to dissolve the Union Paeific-South-
 ern Pacific merger, says the New York
 Times This line, if completed, would | have given the Santa Fe a low grade
 line to the Pacific coast. The attor-
 neys for the United States, Frank B.
 Kellogg and c. A. Severance, lay great l stress upon this particular enterprise as going to show the intent to restrain | trade which the government alleges IS
 the basis of the whole system of mer-
 gers headed by the Union Pacific Rail
 road
 The Southern Pacific bought the link of connecting railroad after season of strenuous warfare in which rival line, incorporated by the Southren Pa cific, sent it's gangs of workmen into the Gala Canyon in Southern Arizona to
 blast rocks up on the mountain side so as to sprinkle down over the right of way picked out by the Atehison s representatives, who worked under the corporate name of the Phoenix < East ern.
 F. NJ. Murphy, as witness, told that Victor Morawetz, chairman of the board of the Atchison, told him that the pro- jeet of connecting up the low grade line to the coast was abandoned because the Southern Pacific people thought it cut into "their territory" too serious ly It was also brought out that Henry H. Rogers and Henry C. Prick, both directors of the Union Pacific, in their other capacity as directors of the Atch- son voted in favor of the resolution of sale to the Southern when that was passed in the summer of 1906.
 Rogers and Prick in Dual Role Mir. Rogers and MT Prick are both de-
 fendants in the government action, and come under the conspiracy charges set up in the complaint. Their dual relation in connection with this charge of killing off rival transcontinental line is brought out in connection with the fact already in evidence in the dissolution suit, that Messrs. Prick and Rogers and James A. Suthorn acquired $50 0,000,000 of Atchison stock in 1904, being then all of them directors of the Union Pacific, which railroad, in 1906, acquired $10,000,O00 more of the Atch- ison shares, making s40,0O0,00O inter est which the Union Pacific held in its rival s system at the time that the Santa Fe's project of building com peting low grade line to the California coast was shut of.
 Mir. Murphy lives in Prescott, Ariz., and admits being in the railroad busi- ness in "small way He is man with a keen eye to the strategic possi- bilities of certain sections of Central Arizona from railroad point of view, and at the same time has an unbound ed faith in the industrial possibilities of his territory. All these things he declared on the stand It was back in
 1893 when he began to build railroads from Prescott as centre of operations. The first line was the Santa Fe, Pres colt & Phoenix, running from Phoenix midway between Prescott and where the line of the Southern Pacific hugs Ari-
 zona s southern border to Ash Fork, on the main line of the Atchison. This provided line running almost due north and south through the central part of the territory.
 From Phoenix, branch of the South ern Pacific carried freight and passen- gers to Maricopa on the main line of the Southern, 34 miles away. The Santa
 Fe, Prescott & Phoenix, through it's northern connection, gave the Atchison an outlet into the rich mining territory of which Phoenix is the center and en-
 abled it to compete with the Southern
 Pacific on business eastbound and west
 bound from that point. So MT. Murphy
 had no material difficulty in selling the Arizona, Prescott X Phoenix to the
 Atchison, remaining, however, it's pres
 ident, as he has remained to this time.
 Then MT. Murphy began to look south
 ward. Maricopa, on the Southern Pa
 cifc was only little junction and of
 ferred no possibilities; but Benson, thir
 ty or forty miles east, was a connecting
 point for the Fl Paso & Southwestern
 line, owned by the Clark, Dodge & Co.,, | interests. starting at K. Paso. taking
 a dip down into some rich Mexican
 mining territory and coming in on the ' Southern Pacific at Benson. Mir. Mur-