White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-24

SHARKS and Ogden This work had been done by William
Hood, Chief Engineer of the Southern pacihc COMPANY
under the direction of Julius kruttschnitt, General Mana
ger. Piles had been shipped from points III Oregon 70 OS
den for the construction of the Salt Lake cut of, and were
in the waters of Salt Lake in tho year i9oo, one year 9 SatoT
the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific were consolidated
Every line change or doube-tracklng OF the Southern
Pacific in Nevada was planned and paid for by the Sou'h
en Pacific Company. There was not one dollar OF Union
Pacific money expended for line changes, donble-tracklng
in Nevada, the construction of the Salt lake cutoff, or the
building of the line to Westwood. All OF the work was
planned and paid for by the Southern Pacific Company.
The building of the road from Natron to Oak Ridge, the
Improvement of the suburban lines on the east side of San
Francisco Bay, the Walnut Grove cute Off, the Meaa Inn, 1
Der road, were all planned by the Southern Pacific and
paid for by their money. Not one dollar oil Union iaclhe
money was used.
and distributed to practically every voter IN tins State
garbled copy of the decree of the Supreme Court, omlttmS
Associate Justice McKenna's dissenting OPINION; tneii
have published Il garbled account of the testimony OF WI
liam Sproule, President of the Southern Pacific Company,
before the California Railroad Commission i'll l9l3-tley
omitted the first paragraph of Mr. Sproule's testimony
'.Perhaps | should begin by stating, with the per
mission of the Commission, that if the southern Ia
cific Company had been left to its own will, II would
not consent to the severance of the Central Pacific
from its lines.
But when Mr.. Sproule gave his testimony. the Southern
Pacific Company had been told by the United States AZ
torney General that separation OF the Southern iacliie
and Central Pacific properties was inevitable, rs The At
torney General had stated that the Sherman Law was ne
ing violated.
However. since 1913. when Nh. Sproule testified, the
TRANSPORTATION Act of 1920 has been passed, TIE Panama
Canal is functioning with absolute regularity-ther has
been a great world war. The latter brought to light the
fact that the people of the United States were better serv-
cd bv consolidation of railroads rather than snndering
them; that rates could be cheaper where IA large number o.
miles were under one management than where there were
two or three companies and sets oi oihclals managing "'
ser properties.
During the time the Union Pacific and the Southern Ia
cific were consolidated, every ton Of freight from Nevada
that could be diverted by way of New Orleans and calves
Ton to New York CITY was moved by that line, thus keep
40 in +lo oafara of tha consolidated COMPANIES Jt) per
cent of the revenue. Since the Southern Pacific Company
and the Union Pacific Company were separated, not one
ton Of freight, unless il was IN error, from or To Nevada,
las moved by way of Galveston Every ton possible has
been shipped through the Ogden gateway. The Southern
Pacific Company i'll 1920 delivered to the Union Pael'ic az
Ogden 1,332, 900 tons of freight. During the same period
The Union Pacific delivered To the Southern Pacific Com
panv $4,000 tons of freight.
The Union Pacific have a line of railroad from Omaha,
Nebraska, to Portland. Oregon. They own n steamship
line from Portland, Oregon, to San Francesca. Inc onlor
Pacific Company owns ii line oil railroad from Omaha, Ne
braska, to Los Angeles. These two lines account to a very
great extent for the difference in the tonnage delivered by
the Union Pacific at Ogden and the tonnage delivered by
the Southern Pacific to the Union Pacific ut the same
point.
The Union Pacific have hired three attorneys to canvass
Nevada, attempting to break mp a company that has serv-
ed Nevada and served it well for the past sixty years. Inc
attention the Southern Pacific officials are giving tins
subject is in the nature of protection. They are not at
tempting to take property from any other company, but to
protect $4,000 stockholders in retaining their own prop
erty.
the Union Pacific in their advertisements in various
states have not said to the people that when Mr.. Harm
man wanted competent and efficient officials to manage
the great consolidation that he brought about of the I'm
ion Pacific Southern Pacific lines. he selected entirely
Southern Pacific officials for the management oil the great
consolidation-Julius Kruttschnitt rs Director of Opera.
ton and Construction of all the lines; j. c. Stubs, Direct
or of Traffic over all the lines: {. Il. Segar, a Southern Pa
cific official as Comptroller OF all the lines; Judge Robert
Lovett, an attorney of the Southern Pacific Atlantic Sys-
tenn, New Orleans. as the Chief Attorney of all the lines.
These are the men that Mr.. Hartman selected to operate
and carry out the work of improving, not alone the South
en and Central Pacific, but the Union Pacific. the Oregon
Short Line, the Oregon Washington Railroad-and when
the lines were segregated, these men, with the exception Of
Judge Lovett, returned to their own home line. the South
ern Pacific, one of the great and wellmanaged properties
of the world.
The Union Pacific have assumed an unfair attitude to
its most friendly and beneficial connection on this qnes
ton.
In regard to the Sparks Shops. the Union Pacific adver-
tisement, which is not signed by any individual, makes
the misleading statement indicating that the Southern Pa