The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-09-29

ing the impending movements q
the Gilmore & Pittsburg. a racoo
nized Hill road, and the Pacific (
Idaho Northern, supposed to h
controlled by the Hills, The mos
plausible of the stories now afloa
is to the effect that the G. & P. will
build down the river from Salmo,
Clty and take a southerly course
into Long Valley to join the P. &
|. NJ, which recently filed a RICH
OF way we'll into the valley. Az
ter this junction has been effected
SO the prophets say, the Pin road
will be extended south from Weiser
to some point in Central Oregon to
join the Grand Trunk, a Hill road
now being built through Central
Oregon. The Grand Trunk. thew
state, will continue south through
klamath county, thence down the
Pitt river canyon into California
with its western terminus at San
Francisco.
To retalliate, so the wiseacres mar
rate, the Hartman interests will
rush to completion the Golden Gate
route out Of Caldwell, thereby
shortening the distance to the Bay
City some 500 miles. 1t is pro-
posed to extend the road north to
connect with the Northwestern, a
Hartman road running from st.
Paul to Seattle, at some point in
Montana. With this invasion into
the very heart Of the Hill territory
accomplished, the Hartman inter-
ests will construct at network of
branch lines, inaugurate fast freight
and passenger service, giving the
people of the intermountain country
service such as the east is getting.
The direct cause of the present
trouble is contained in the follow
ing dispatch from Omaha:
The old rivalry between the Hill
and Hartman railroad systems be-
tween the Missouri river and the
Pacific coast has broken out afresh
and Harrimans Southern Pacific
has just death Hills Burlington
line a staggering blow by cutting
the latter line of from all San Fran
cisco and California traffic. Condi-
lions are such that neither the inter-
state commerce commission nor the
federal courts can interfere in the
fight and from appearances the ri
val lines will be permitted to set
tie the affair in their own way.
And this time the fight is being
waged on the rails, not In the stock
market. The entire trans-Mississ-
ippi country is the battlefield in
stead of the narrow confines of
Wall and Broad streets.
Despite the fact that this is the
most titanic struggle the western
world has known for rs years., 1t is
being waged so silently that the
public Is scarcely aware that the big
rivals are no longer standing to-
gether and working tremendously,
as they have done in the past de-
cade. The cause of the fight is the
ownership of a simple $3.50 on each
ticket sold by the eastern lines to
the Pacific coast, but the effect pro-
duced is tremendous. And still
greater effects are promised by the
generals in command of the cam
paign.
The situation is complicated by
the fact that Hill, in the fight, has
the assistance of the Big Rock IS
land railroad, which is in a position
similar to the Burlington, while the
Western Pacific, the new Gould
road to the Pacific, is aiding the
Southern Pacific. Union PACING
the main trunk of the Hartman
system, is in the present fracas on'!
a 'looker-on" and bystander, ano
Il taking no part in the struggle
However, the latter road is reap
ing a golden harvest while the 9TH
er lines scrap among themselves
In fact. because of tho big nsa''
Union Pacific is today tho only rail-
road operating through trains Do.
tween Chicago and st. Louis ana
Gan Francisco which traverse tne
central portion of the country.
The trouble began brewing I"
war AFRO when the interstate COM
MERGE commission ordered southern
pacific and other roads to reduce
fare from Ogden TO tho fa'lno
coast from $40 to ss6, but did ho'
order a reduction In the through
fare from Missouri river points 70
the coast. At that time, and FOR ~
voars proyious thereto. through cars