Show 11 HARRIMAN GOES SOUTH t Magnates Significant Trip Over Utah Pacific iI I i I t EXTENSION OFTHATLlNE I Thought to be Up for Immediate 1 Consideration by tho Syndicate Engineer Takes Bluo Prints and I IVIaps > Unimportance of Southern I Line as Local Road What Could be Accomplished by Building 250 I T Miles Rio Grande Western Ready to Accept Union Station Franchise > r From all outward Indications the extension ex-tension of the Utah Pacific to a California Cali-fornia connection Is I being planned by I the Harriman Interests The Harriman I l f npcclal of five cars left yesterday afternoon after-noon for Uvada tu make a trip over i4 the new line and Resident Engineer AHblon accompanied the party armed with it bundle of blue prints maps andS and-S papers Jn the party arc E II HarriS xnun chairman of three roads and S president of the Short Ujie ho I Js J also a director oC Baltimore < c Ohio Chicago Alton Illinois I Central and Kansas City < Southern South-ern hts two presidents If CJ Burl oCt the oC-t Union Paclllu and A L Mphier or I the Oregon Railway S Navigation company I com-pany are ohm on board wlLh thc following fol-lowing oOlcIals W IF Bancroft vice I president and general manager S W 4 Kcclcs general tmlllo manager J II I Young superintendent William Ash I lon resident engineer of the Oregon Short Line Freight Truflk Manager John A Munroe Chief Engineer J I B Urrry and General Agent F 13 Choate of the Union Pacific Troflle Manager Ben Campbellof the Oregon Railway Navigation company with a dozen Hrrka and attaches of the < various olll S Hal HalThe The HarrIman special consisting of Oregon Short Line car 113 Oregoji Hallway Hall-way Navigation car 01 Oregon Short Line ear 5 Union Paelllc car 01 and Mr Ilarrlmnns Artlen pulled In at 215 p in and allowing only time for Mr A hton to hurriedly drive up town tort S to-rt the maps and papers the train pulled out for Uvnda MOST SIGNIFICANT TRIP I S There are two facts that make It apparent I ap-parent that the trip Is full of slgnUl anrc They are the Importance of S 2lr Harriman In the railroad world nnd the unimportance of the JtnibMll ford branch as a local line The trip Is t long and tiresome one over a barrenS barren-S country for much of the distance and IKIOW Juab there IK little of interest along the line From MIlford the Utah t Pacific was finished last year 75G S inllfH to Uvada on the State line and only about 2 r > 0 mll s from an allrail connection to Manvel Cal From I Provo to MIlford It is 174 miles representing J repre-senting today one of the least remunerative S remu-nerative parts of the Oregon Short i Line By complctolng the 250 miles from Uvada to Manvel the nonremu nerative line would not only become a line that would for exceed the best of the Idaho division In earning capacity I but It would Immediately develop the I greatest highway oCI mule l In the Nit and would pliuv the Ilarrlman 1 roads In the advantageous position of i having n Pacific port at Portland and one at San Diego the hitter being better I bet-ter for Oriental trade than San Francisco Fran-cisco 1 Is needless to repeat that the S Oregon Short Line has a certain proprietary I pro-prietary Interest In the Utah Paclllc That fact Is Acll known but It only I remains for the syndicate to acknowledge acknowl-edge Ihe ownership President McCune I of the Utah t Pacific was at the train but did not go down as he 1 suffering with a bad old By building the Inexpensive short line the Oregon Short Line and 1nc OrCSon anl connections con-nections would have at once one of the S main art rlis of travel in another region 1 re-gion a rout from the north to the wjulhwesl From Lethbrldge Canada to San Diego It IH 1710 mIles by existing S roads and the 250mile gap Such IL line would cross eight of the leading transcontinental In sLhe Canadian Pacific at lelhbrldge Great Northern nt Great Falls Northern Pacific all 4 al-l lenn Idaho division of the Oregon Short Line at Pocatello Union Paclllc 5 and Southern Paclllc at Ogdcn Rio Grande Western at Snlt Lake Santa Fe and Sunset Route S P In California Califor-nia Think of the possibilities In that one connection POSSIBILITIES OF THE LINE On the other hand the line would he backed by the most powerful railroad syndicate of the day which already owns and controls load from the At lantlo and Gulf porln Chicago St Loula and Kansas City to Portland I Or backing which alone could supply trafllu to keep up a dozen trains dally over the Him which now runs u mixed train Mr Harriman la 1 credited with being the one who reorganized tho Stllwcll roils That line would be as nothing compared with the San Diego roadS road-S The cOld and Iron of Utah alone if properly developed would be exclusively exclusive-ly l ujwd In the Smithwoat to nay nothing noth-ing of future USe In the Hawaiian Isl niuiM mid the t Orient That Is proved by the Pleasant Valley company getting get-ting a California contract the other S day which hud before l been held by Il Cardiff mine in WaleK Tw the knowledge of these facts with many other Umtiitm cnufed l a revival S of interest in the California road Had Mr llMiTlman gone on an Inspection tour over one of the divlnloiis where H many line changes are being made it would not have ben noticed but an inspection trip over tho Mllford line by a niun who Is one of the directors In American mllroudw Is one of the lur prlMfs of the year Column haY been written about the S route to California and that the Utah ll Pacific would extend ban never been dnubtod Now that the leading nmu of tho allied YStPIIIS In I going over the road It IH taken ILK direct evidence that the line ulll he built I no the Union Paclllc will make the Krenlcwl stride of Its corporate life 55 |