White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-24
What Sparks Shops Have Done Under Southern
Pacific Control and What 1t Has Meant to Nevada

10 their own divisions after they nad Deeh
In one winter there were - locomotives from fortiahd'
Oregon. and Tucson, Arizona, hauled to SPARKS ana over
nauled in the shops at that point, then returned. 10 thelf
home divisions.
Tbe Southern Pacific Company have not made great ira-
proyements contemplated and which they desired to make
during the past eight years. Snci improvements were
POSTPONED until the question pending III the supreme
Court of the United States had been definitely settled
improvements that would require vast expenditures OF
capital.
we're moved, not one man was injured, not one life was
lost. OF the recent Shrine movement, where more than
sixty additional trains were moved over the Southern IA
eifc Company's lines. there was not one man injured. The
trains of the Southern Pacific moving through the Ogden
gateway in connection with the Union Pacific are as good
as any in the world. While on-time service Is not always
given. the Southern Pacific's record for time IS equal to
that of any long distance line in the United States.
Should the Central Pacific and the Southern Pacific be
dissolved, there would not be needed 100 employees IN the
Sparks Shops in order to take care of the Salt Lake dL,
vision, which is all that the Union Pacific promise would
he ~overhauled in the Sparks Shops.
The Southern Pacific Company was Il great factor IN the
building of California and Nevada. The people appreciate
it. and if the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific are east
asunder the producers and shippers OF California VIII
have their say how their freight Is routed, and 1t Is safe to
say that there will be 10 per cent less freight tonnage
moved through Nevada than there is mt this time The
Southern Central Pacific Company when there was no 9th
or railroad in Nevada moved baled hay from Reno to san
Francisco for $3.50 per ton: from Lovelock GQr 500 a ton.
moved potatoes in carloads from points in Nevada TO San
Francisco for $500 per ton or any other production of this
state at equally low rates, and We're doing everything they
could to build up the state.
IL juicy u TIT Douiutl l. d'iilA 'hlAR ~ N'NNNh
under the direction of Julius kruttschnitt and William
SpIoule has changed i'll MANY respects. They operate the
railroad for the purpose of selling freight and passenger
transportation. No honest man can say that since Mr..
Julius Kruttschnitt and Nh. William Sproule have had the
management that there has been any attempt To influence
legislation other than 10 come out fair, square and openly
where their interests were involved and explain what in
their Judgment would be fair and right. There has not
been since these men have been IN charges not now, nor
will there be in the future-any "behind.t the door, tactics
and % per cent of the people of this State appreciate the
honest endeayor of the Southern Pacific TO give service
and to attend strictly and only TO the business they are en-
gagged in, namely, furnishing transportation 10 the people.
The Union Pacific have, through their attorneys, plead
ed with the people of this state 10 say no word in favor of
the Southern Pacific Company; but, regardless of that
fact, the Austin Chamber of Commerce. the business men
Of Beowawe. the Battle Mountain Chamber of Commerce,
the Boston 4 Ely Mining 20. of Ely. the business men,
livestock men and miners of Carlin. the livestock, mining
and business men of Deeth, the business men of Dayton,
the business and mining men OF Eureka, the business men
and farmers of Fernley, the Fallon Chamber OF Commerce,
the citizens of Goldfield. the citizens of Golconda, the
business men and ranchers of Hazen. the citizens of Haw-
ihorne, the Humboldt Chamber of Commerce, the citizens
Of INLAY, the citizens of Rochester. the Lovelock Chamber
of Commerce. the business men of Palisade, the business
men of Tonopah, the citizens of Wadsworth, the mer-
chants, business men and miners of Wells, the citizens oil
Wabuska, the citizens of Wmnemucca, the Yerington
Commercial Club, the Chamber of Commerce of Virginia
City have petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission
under the Transportation Act of 1920 to continue the
Southern-Central Pacific rs one operating concern.
The Union Pacific attorneys have attempted to intimate
to the people of Nevada, a d~isrespect on the part of the
Southern Pacific to the Supreme Court decision. We he
lieve they knew they were making a wicked and unjust
accusation. The Southern Pacific officials are second to
none in their respect for the decisions given BY the Su-
preme Court or any other Court of the land. The decree
handed down by the Supreme Court of the United States
makes no alusion to the Transportation Act of 1920,
which was passed, so far as railroads were concerned,
practically in lien of the Sherman law, placing the man
agement, consolidation or dissolution of the railroads en-
tirely in the hands of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, which was so well stated by United States Senator
Newands in his address in the United States Senate in
1913, which reads as follows:
In my judgment the Courts are not tie tribunal
that GbOnlI IaoIIa nc n In GENERALIZATION or 1trcoI,
ticn of railroads. Such questions shuld have the con
sideration of the Interstate Commerce Commission or
some body or some similar tribunal with authority for
investigation and to give to the people the service
that would best serve them
He said further:
''The dissolution of the Southern Central Pacific is
a question that will come before my people Of Nevada
at some future day, and | am speaking now that they
may give it consideration
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