The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-09
WESTERN PACIFIC
MAY Be ABSORBED
Denver Il Rio Grande May EX-
tend Its Name and Manage
ment TO Pacific Coast.
WOULD MERGE OFFICES
AND REDUCE EXPENSES
Parent Line Would Give New
Road Benefit of Worldwide
Advertising.

The following information was gath
erred, part from New York City, part
from Denver. part from certain partic:
in Salt Lake and part from railroad
men who have been over the Western
Pacific of late and have seen things
with their own eyes, only part of which
is put down here.
IL is commonly reported thaC in the
near future the Western Pacific Will be
absorbed into the parent company. the
Denver &Rio Grandc. and that the two
roads will be operated from Denver TO
San Francisco, as one railroad under
one management and one set of officers.
Various reasons are given Tor this pro
posed move.
At present there are two sets Of of
iicials. one in tho Denver & Rio Grandc
and the other in the Western Pacitlc'
whose authority i'll many eases overlap
and this causes occasional friction aud
confusion. BY having only one man.
agcmenl over both roads this would be
done away with.
Through Traffic.
Although the Western Pacific is uu-
dersioud 10 he open for through freight
tlaifc and that ii has SO been since
December. IL is said that the condition
OF the tgrck west OF -Winncmucca is
such that The through traffic between
Winncmurca and San Francisco is being
handled bv the Southern Pacific and
must confinuc 10 he 80 handled till the
Western Pacific is practically rebuilt
i'm many parts west Of Winncmucca,
The Western Pacific is new road
and uukuown 10 The public nj large.
whereas the Denver x Rio Grandc is
known the world over. BY having both
roads under The ono name the ''Dcnvcf
n Bio Grandc, II is said that tins
alone would throw a great deal of traf
lir, aud especially passenger business, to
thc Western Pacific that otherwise
under ats present namc IL would not get,
No legal difficulties are IN the way 70
prevent the Western Pacific, as a con
tinuation OF The Denver & Rio Grandc.
from transactipg business for any other
road into or out Of Salt Lake.
Delayed Appointments,
1t has bccn more or less of mystery
why numerous slated appointments to
the Western Pacific have not been
officially announced and why such un-
explained delay has occurred in getting
an organization together for the West
cn Pacific, but the possibility Of the
absorption Of the Western Pacific by
the Denver & Rio Grandc would explain
this otherwise unaccountcd.for DELAY.
ii IL fully understood thai the Har-
rm3n interests haze a powerful hold
ing in hc Western Pacific. How and
WHY his was probably obtained from
The unwilling Gould hands has been cx
planned before in The Tribune. 1t is
also undcrsi ood that outside interests
have within the past few month hs been
forcing entrance INTO the Denver x
Rio Grandc Itself. The absorption Of
the Western Pacific by thc Denver & Rio
Grnndc would, II is said. in no wise
intcrfcrc with thc Hartman interests,
AS they Would hold tho same rights, al
thought under i different name. The
fact itself would remain unaItcrcd.
MI knowledge of any move to ah-
sorh the Western Pacific by the Don
Yer y Rio Graudn is denied nj the Salt
Lake offices at the Two roads.