The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-01
SHIPMENTS REVEAL
RAILROAD SECRET
HaWIey'S Control of Former
Gould Lines Made Patent
by Traffic Details.

New developments in the affairs OF
the enver & Rio Grande continue with
marked frequency. Many of them tend
to confirm previous reports that there
has been a change from control OF
Gould to that of Edwin F. Hawley. or
the latest developments Denver dis
patch says:
.1The Denver & Rio Grande, the Mis-
souri, Pacific and the Western Pacific
have established very close relations
with the United States Steel corpora
ton. better known as the steel trust,
and have been sending solid trains of
steel through Pueblo to the coast. The
significant feature OF the deal is that
the shipments are being routed over
roads controlled by Edwin Hawiey, via
the Gould lines.
the Western Pacific last December,
have been handling, via Pueblo, thou
sands of tons of the trusts steel prod
ucts, similar to the products of the Col
oradO Fuel & Iron company, in which
company Mr.. Gould was recently denied
a controlling voice by John D Rookie
Teller.
Mr.. Rockefeller's holdings in the
United Steel corporation were officially
reported recently to be nominal when
Rockefeller, junior, resigned from the
trusts board of directors 1t is, there
fore. evident that il is not Mr. Rookie
feller's influence IN the steel trust
which has brought about the close al
lance between the Denver & Rio
Grande and other Gould lines and that
corporation
It is learned that fully 90 per cent OF
the traffic, both east and weStbound,
which has been going over the Western
Pacific since that line was opened last
December goes over the Denver Il Rio
Grande, is known to be handling the
larger proportion of the business or
the American Steel & Wire company,
u subsidiary of the trust, to Pacific
coast points and is running solid
through trainlOads Of this class OF
traffic through to San Francisco.
The traffic relations between the
United States Steel corporation and the
Gould roads are eSta bliShed on Solo
basis, which is expected to be even
more pronounced at an early date the
steel trust turned 49,, 100000 pounds
OF traffic over to the Missouri Pacific
last year. All of that enormous ton
mage was handled over the Denver &
Rio Grande. One Of the very first ship
ments made over the Western Pacific
after opening the road last Decem Der
consisted of two trains of thirty cars
each Of the American Steel q Wire
cOmpany's products from Chicago TO
san Francisco
These two trains were shipped out of
Chicago over the Chicago & Alton, d
road belonging to the Hawley syndl-
cate, and transferred TO the Missouri
Pacific at Kansas City. They were
transferred to the Rio Grande az Pu-
eblO and to the Western Pacific at SAT-
Lake.
A significant feature in connection
with these shipments is that the Haw-
ley road could have delivered these
either to the Hill roads, or to the roads
belonging to the Hartman system, or
10 the Rock Island lines at Kansas
City The fact that they were given
and are being given to the Gould roads
clearly conveys the impression that
Edwin Hawley is working in COnnec-
ton with the Gould lines, as has been
repeatedly rumored-
Denials are being made by Denver &
Rio Grande officials that there have
been any changes on that -Oad or that
any are contemplated, but the impress
sion still prevails that the reports have
a substantial foundation and that time
viii prove them correct.