The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-07-06
j. P. MAN CLAIMS
DIVORCE IS BEST

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Protection of the interests of
Nevada and Utah in particular,
along with central and northern
California, from the non-competi-
tive service rendered by the South
ern Pacific, as the highest court in
the land pointed ont, is the object
of carrying the situation to the
people of the territory affected.
The benefits to be derived
throughout the area served by the
Central Pacific, by the divorce of
the two lines and the restoration of
competition in routing transcon-
tinental traffic over the connection
with the Union Pacific are held to
be of Unreasonable value. With the
Southern Pacific now receiving only
third of the revenue for traffic
by the Ogden route that it gets
for hauls by the Sunset route, the
latter naturally is handed the bulk
Of the business, according to the
Union Pacific officials.
They also claim that with the
Southern Pacific no longer in con-
troll of the Central Pacific, the COM
petition for through business is
certainly bound to bring much
heavier traffic through the states Of
Nevada mad Utah, and this means
increased facilities which will rep
resent the expenditure of large
sums for development and mainte-
nance work.
Since 1912 when the courts d.
vorced the Southern Pacific from
Union Pacific control, little other
than maintenance work has been
done along the line of the Central
Pacific. Once free from Southern
Pacific management and made part
of competitor with that COM
pany's Sunset route, the Central
Pacific will unquestionably be
brought up to higher standard OF
efficiency and the greatly increased
traffic over its tracks will result in
added prosperity to the states OF
Utah and Nevada as well as render
ing better transportation service to
the entire region affected.
A statement issued by the cousel
for the Union Pacific, the benefits
resulting from the unmerger, fol
low:
"There is a kind of competition
that keeps the railroads 'on their
toes It is competition in service,
development of traffic, pleasant and
quick adjustment Of claims for dam
ages, efficient and expeditions handl-
ing of freight and passenger trains,
the maintenance Of clean and at
tractive stations and depots, CO.
operation with the several towns in
all matters such as the development
Of water fronts and the encourage
ment of industries that will tend
to upbuild the community. and
finally, polite and courteous treat
ment of passengers and shippers,
1t is this kind Of competition that
spells progress and prosperity, and
it is this kind that will inevitably
result il the Central Pacific Is
operated as a competing railroad,
free from the domination Of the
Souther Pacific, as the United
States Supreme Court has directed
in its decision handed down May
30, 1922.
at is natural that the Southern
Pacific should stifle competition as
far as possible, because the South
ern Pacific, by diverting all of the
freight it possibly can to it's long
Sunset route, which runs by the
way Of Ell Paso on the borderland
Of Mexico, thence to Galveston and
New Orleans, obtains q haul that Is
three times longer than the haul
that it would obtain we're 1t to send
that freight over the line that il
would naturally and normally go
the Central Pacific.
"In doing this they have throttled
development all along the line, in
dustrially, commercially and agri.
culturally. The compliance with
the unmerger mandate will obviate
this destructive domination and will
confer real freedom of routing
upon the shippers as well as
throughgoing rivalry in service
everywhere-in short, will create
that constructive competition which
is SO essential to the progress ant
development Of every community.
"Why should the affected states
refuses to accept the beneficent re
suits of competition of this typ,
when, for the first time in years, the