The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-02
TranscOntinental Association
Will Meet in This City
Next June.
FIFTY-THREE RAILROADS
ARE TO BE REPRESENTED
Exposition Rates, Stopoyers
and Other Important Matters
Scheduled for Discussion.

Next meeting Transcontincntal Pas
senger association will be held In salt
Lake.
This was the brief dispatch received in
this city Wednesday afternoon from Chi
cago. 1t means that, beginning June II
next. representatives OF htty-three rail-
road companies OF their affiliated lines
will be in this city 10 discuss impor-
tant railroad questions II means also
that the invitation which was extended
by the Salt Lake City Commercial club,
and which was personally conveyed to
the convention now In session In Chicago
by President j. II. Johnson has been ac-
cepted and that next June railroad men
representing the passenger departments
caeo Will meet here 10 discuss matters
OF passenger rates. stop-over privileges.
coonist and other rates.
Rates for Exposition.
One of the most important matters
likely to come before the session will be
the question or transcontinental rates for
the Panama Pacific exposition. to he held
In San Francisco in 1915, together with
stop-over privileges ON all tickets sold
10 the exposition city. Among local rail
road men there Is no question that The
association viii grant at least Il ten
day stop over on all such tickets. This
viii be one of the things which the Com
mcrcial club and the brsincss men wiil
urge upon the meeting of the associa
ton.
From the expression Of local railroad
men there Is little reascp 30 doubt thai
the association Will accedo to the requcs.
Of the business men OF this city and
grant the privilege Should the session
of the association now being he'd IN
Chicago fail to take action on the mat
ter of stop-overs on all transcontinental
tickets. regardless of the exposition. this
matter will he taken up In earnest by
represen tatives from the western cities
AT the June meeting
Many Roads Represented
Al the meeting to he held in this city
next June the following roads will be
represented:
Arizona Eastern. Atchison. Topeka 6
Santa Fe, Atchlson. Topeka & Santa Fe.
Coast lines. Canadian Pacific Chicago
G Alton. Chicago & Eastern Illinois. Chi
| cago e. North Western, Chicago. Burliug
river. lines west of the Missouri river
Chicago Great Western, Galveston. Har-
risburg San Antonio. Great Northern.
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe. Houston. Fast
& West Texas. Houston G. Texas Cen
trail Illinois Central. Iowa Central.
Louisiana Western. Minneapolis. ST. Paul
& Saut Ste. Marie. Minneapolis & 81.
Louis. Missouri, Kansas & Texas system.
Missouri Pacific. MorEan's Louisiana &
Texas Railroad & Steamship company.
Northern Pacific, Oregon G. Washington,
Chicago Milwaukee & Puget Sound Chi
cago Milwaukee & ST Paul. Chicago
Rock Island Il I;l Poso. Chicago. Rock Is
land * Gulf, Chicago. Rock Island & Pa
| ciflc, Chicago, ST. Paul. Minneapolis &
Omaha, Colorado & Southern. Colorado
Midland. Denver & Rio Grande. III Paso
& Southwestern system, Fort Worth G.
Denver City, Oregon Short Line. Pacific
Coast Steamship company. ST Louis &
San Francisco. ST. Louis. Iron Mountain
e Southern, Santa Fe. Prescott e.
Phoenix. San Francisco e. Portland
Steamship company. San Pedro. Los An
seles & Salt Lake. Sonora railway
Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico,
Southern Pacific company tPacific sys-
tem). Spokane. Portland & Seattle. Texas
SS New Orleans. Texas & Pacific Union
Pacific. Wabash, and Western Pacific.