The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-09-23
What Sparks Shops Have Done Under Southern Pacific Control
And What Has Meant To Nevada

In n Winter there were 79 locomotives from Portland,
Oregon. and Tucson, Arizona, hauled to Sparks and over
hauled in the shops at that point, then returned to their home
divisions.
provements contemplated, and which they desired to make
during the past eight years Such improvements were post
poned until the question pending in the Supreme Court Of the
United States had been definitely settled-improvements that
would require vast expenditure of capital.
The Union Pacific Gf it is to their creditl paid for adyer-
tisements in the newspapers of California, Nevada and other
States promising the people of the various localities wonder
full things if they acquire the Central Pacific. In self.defense,
by explaining to the public the true situation, defend their
own stockholders. We know the fair-minded people of Ne
vada will see the difference in trying to protect your own
property, or of a foreign corporation entering this State and
trying to take the property of another. The Southern Pa
cifc have given the people of Nevada service second to none
in the United States; the Southern Pacific Company's record
for safety is well known.
were moved, not one man was injured, not one life was lost.
Of the recent Shrine movement, where more than sixty addi-
tional trains were moved over the Suothern Pacific Com
pany'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 ontime service is not always given, the South
ern Pacifc's record for time is equal to that of any long dis
lance line in the United States.
Should the Central Pacific and the Southern Pacific be
dissolved, there would not be needed 1850 employees in the
Sparks Shops in order to take care of the Salt Lake division,
which is all that the Union Pacific promise would be over
hauled in the Sparks Shops.
building of California and Nevada. The people appreciate
it, and if the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific are cast
asunder the producers and shippers of California will have
their say how their freight is routed, and it is safe to say that
there will be rs per cent less freight tonnage moved through
Nevada than there is at this time. The Southern-Ce ntral Pa
cifc Company, when there was no other railroad in Nevada,
moved baled hay from Reno to San Francisco for $3.50 per
ton; from Lovelock for $3.50 a ton; moved potatoes in car
loads from points in Nevada to San Francisco for $500 per
ton or any other production of this State at equally low rates,
and were doing everything they could to build the State.
The policy of the Southern Pacific Company in Nevada
under the direction of julius Kruttschnitt and William
Sproule has changed in 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 Mr.. William Sproule have had the manage
ment that there has been any attempt to influence legislation
other than to come out fair, square and openly where their
iuforooto "a ipyolvod and ovnlain h IN THAR INDIGNANT
would be fair and right. There has not been since these men
have been in charges not now, nor will there be in the flu
ture-any "behind-the-door tactics, and 95 per cent of the
people of this State appreciate the honest endeavor of the
Southern Pacific to give service and to attend strictly and
only to the business they are engaged in, namely, furnishing
transportation to the people.
The Union Pacific have, through their attorneys, pleaded
with the people of this State to 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 &
Ely Mining Co., of Ely, the business men, livestock men and
miners of Carin, 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 Goldfeld, the
citizens of Golconda, the business men and ranchers of Haz-
en-, the citizens of Hawthorne, 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 Wads-
worth, the merchants, business men and miners of Wells, the
citizens of Wabuska, the citizens of Winnemucca, the Yering-
ton Commercial Club, the Chamber of Commerce of Virginia
City have petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission
under the transportation Act of 1920 to continue the South
ern,Central Pacific as one operating concern.
The Union Pacific attorneys have attempted to intimate
to the people of Nevada, a disrespect on the part of the
Southern Pacific to the Supreme Court decision. We believe
they knew they were making a wicked and unjust accusation.
The Southern Pacific officials are second to none in their re-
spect for the decisions given by the Supreme Court or any 9th
er Court of the land. The decree handed down by the Su-
preme Court of the United States makes no allusion to the
Transportation Act of 1920 which was passed, SO far as rail
roads were concerned, practically in lieu of the Sherman
Law, placing the management consolidation or dissolution of
the railroads entirely in the hands of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, which was so well stated by United States
Senator Newlands in his address in the United States Senate
in 1913, which reads as follows:
I'm my judgment the Courts are not the tribunal that
QhOnl6 dac6o q a n n consolidation n - cuo1~k: -
railroads. Such questions should have the consideration
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"
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