The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-13
Grave Problems to Be
Settled by Harrimans Sue
cessor on This Trip to the
Far West.
SANTA FE CONFERENCE
BROUGHT FINE RESULTS
Concessions to Western Pa
CifiC VIII Be of Immense
Benefit to Territory COntig-
uOuS to GouId'S New Route.
TO DISCUSS LUCIN CUT OFF
. REsIDENT ROBERT 5. LoVErr

n RESIDENT ROBERT :. IOVFTT,
Of the Southern Pacific railroad
Is due 10 arrive in salt Lake either
tod"s or tomorrow. His coming at this
TINE ~ significant, in that there are
many perpiextng subjects 10 be taken
up with officials OF the Oregon short
Line.
President Low q will have TO deal
with the Lucia cutoff proposition,
safeguard against further destruction
or the road by floods in NevHdn, the
proposed connection of the Union Pa
cific with the Southern Pacific from
Granger, WyO., via Durango, Colo, 10
the southern route, and many lesser
problems, which are kept as secrets In
the family closet Of great railroad
system.
Fresh from his momentous conference
with President Ripley of the Santa Fe at.
Los Angeles tue other day. President
LOYett who is shouldering the cares OF
the Hartman lines may probably make
some announcements when he reaches
salt Lake which will startle the railroad
world. Maybe he won I.
In any event. his visit TO Salt Lake at
/ this time is looked upon as important in
more ways than one.
One of the most important matters
agreed upon in the Los Angeles confer
ence was the promise Of the Southern Pa
cific and the Santa Fe to give the West
ern Pacific joint rates This has much
of q local application.
President LOvett's visit may also haVs
the effect of more vigorously pushing
the work of repairing the washed out
track on the Salt Lake Route and the
opening OF that road at an earlier date
than now seems to be on the cards.
Conference With Ripley.
Another important matter settled in Los
Angeles as a result of the LOvett-Rip-
ley conference was the understanding
that the 1i0-mile gap on the main line OF
10 nrfn
! Cal, north to Shiveley, Will be closed by
construction TO cost about 81. 900 600. After
the conference the question Of the Santa
Fe being given the right 30 run its pas
senger trains over the tracks OF the
Southern Pacific between MojaVe and Los
Angeles remains in a tentative state.
Several matters i'm Texas, where both
companies have large interests, are also
left unsettled.
Lovett and Ripley met under changed
conditions yesterday. The hartman per-
sOnal influence is no longer felt in the
Santa Fe board OF directors The so
called Hartman railroad influence no
longer owns a big block Of Santa Fe
stock, which entitled it TO two directors.
I That $50 10000 Of stock has been sold. and
Hartman officials are out or the Santa
Fe board. This does not mean that Uhs
two roads are in a fighting mood. But
the difference is known and felt. There
are many things the Santa te may do to-
day or next week which there was 10
chance of doing when Hartman was in
the railroad saddle and buying stock OF
the company.
, Both Ripley and Lovett officially are in
the same box They represent before the
public the bankers in control or their
properties They advise with the bank
ers. In the end they DO what the men Of
| finance want done
Northwestern Pacific.
The Southern Pacific and Santa Fe own
jointly the Northwestern Pacific road
The bankers behind all the properties
think the time is ripe TO round out the
system. This is why LOvett and Ripley
agreed to build the Vending Healdsburz
gap and the one between Shively and Wiz
Its. The counties Of AIendocinO and Hum
bOldt in California contain the greatest
redwood forest district in the world, and
the timber experts for the road estimate
that 200 carloads of lumber from the for
est can be shipped daily to the east for
period of a hundred years without de-
stroying the forest. if proper foresUatiOn
methods are used.
The Healdsburg-Alb road will COM
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