New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-16
NEW TRAFFIC AGREEMENT
Southern Pacific and st. Louis
& Frisco Systems Unite.
CONNECTS GULF AND LAKES
Running Rights Not Affected,
and There Are No Financial
Commitments.

Formal announcement was made yester-
day of the conclusion of ten-year traffic
agreement between. the Southern Pacific
and St Louis & San Francisco systems
which is expected to work great advantage
to both and which will supply traffic facil-
tiles that could not be obtained otherwise
except by the construction of new lines at
a total expense estimated as high as
So. 100000
The Southern Pacific. in addition to its
main line extending east and west across
the southern part of Texas, has various
lines running north in the eastern part
Of that state but not extending across the
northerly border The Frisco system has
lines from Kansas City, st. Louis and Chi
cago extending down into Texas to a con-
nection with the Southern Pacific. and also
an east and west line in Southern Texas
running from New Orleans through
Houston and Galveston to Brownsville, on
the Mexican border, but with the divorce
of the Frisco from the Rock Island system
the connecting link between the Frisco
lines from the north and its South Texas
lines has been lost, the Trinity & Brazos
Valley Railway. which had supplied that
connection, being owned jointly by the
Rock Island, now a rival of the Frisco,
and the Colorado & Southern. owned by
the Burlington.
President lovett's Statement.
President Lovett of the Southern Pacific
yesterday made the following statement
concerning the scope of the new arrange
ment:
The north and south lines of the South
ern Pacific system extend from Galveston,
Houston, Port Arthur, Sabine Pass anu
Beaumont. on the Gulf, to Dallas, Fort
Worth Sherman. Denison and other north
ern Texas cities, but we have no lines cross
ing the northerly border of Texas Formerly
these lines received considerable business
from the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, with
which they connect at Denson. and from
the Rock Island system and the Colorado
& Southern system, with which they con-
meet at Forth Worth. But the Missouri
Kansas & Texas for some years has had
its own line to the Gulf, and some two
or three years ago the Rock Island sys-
tenn and the Colorado & Southern system
jointly constructed line from Fort Worth
TO the Gulf. The Frisco system has lines
from st. Louis and from Kansas City
through Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma
to Denison, Dallas and Fort Worth, where
they connect with our lines.
Traffic Agreement Wholly.
An agreement has been made by which
these lines and the east and west lines of
the Frisco system in South Texas shall
work preferentially for traffic between
South and Central Texas and St Louis,
Kansas City, Oklahoma and other points
north. 1t is a traffic agreement wholly,
neither party having any running rights
on the lines of the other and no financial
commitments of any character being In
volved. The lines connect directly, and
ing together for the business mentioned
against the several other systems having
through lines from St Louis to the Gulf,
which neither of these alone has.
A similar agreement for the Interchange
of traffic was made in 1909 between the
Hartman lines and the Kansas City
Southern Railway, which operates a line
from Kansas City to the Gulf at Port
Arthur, Tex, and it is understood that that
arrangement will not be affected by the
new Frisco alliance.
President Winchell of the st. Louis q
San Francisco said yesterday:
Our traffic alliance with the Southern
Pacific is both offensive and defensive. 1t
means a new through route for US from
Galveston to Kansas City and Chicago,
and is practically the same as running
over our own tracks. It gives three hun
dred miles of new track over the Houston
& Texas Central, connecting our main line
with the division running from Browns
vile to New Orleans"