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Show ISALT LAKE ROUTE IS 1NDEPENBENT : Former Senator Clark De- j j i nies Report of U. P. j Plan to Absorb. j 1 i Special to The Tribune. i j LOS ANG ELKS, Cal., Sept. 2.1. j Railway experts have long been talk-! talk-! ing about signs and indications that the Salt Lake & Los Angeles railroad would be soon absorbed by the Vnion Pacific, which owns 50 per cent, of the stock as a result, of a compromise be- ; tween former Senator W. A. Clark aim ! K. H. Harriman while the road was be- 1 ing constructed. 1 "Nothing to it," said. Mr. Clark, who 1 is visiting here today. "When the, roads are returned to their owners, thi Salt Lake lioutc will be operated as I before the war, on an independent basis. There is nothing on which to l3se any assumption of a possible absorption ol : j the road by the Union Pacific. Oar line 1 I is among the five or six roads at the jlop of the column on receipts for busi- ' j ness, though it is true that we have not J quite equaled the standard of receipts j of three years before the war, on which ! basis the government took over the ; railways. Our business has been good. 1 though, and keeps us in the top class." , i The Southern Pacific, the Western ; 1 Pacific and the Santa Fe railroad sys- , 1 tcms, under orders from Director Oeu- I eial of Kailroads Hines, have com- j ' menced to make an inventory of all sop- j I plies as of December til, l'.l!. Tlrs . 1 means, u is said, that the railroads will ! be ready to be iurnod back to private, ownership just as soon as congress tie- I cides en a plan as to how they shaii j go back. No one here is in a position , (to predict when the actual turning will be made, although officials are of the i opinion that it will be done within the next six or seven months. 1 In addition to this taking of stock, : ' it is an open secret that William Sproule will a;ain become president of : ; the Southern pacific company en the coast. Paul Shoup will, it is said, become be-come assistant to Sproule as vice presi-, 'dent of the company, and also will re- 1 tain the presidency 01' the Associated O.l company an I the Pacific Klecrric j ' raihvav of Los Av.gcics. The Western 1 Pacific railroad lti.es. win n t.Vv are turned back to ;':.e owning eon oral 1011. ; 1 will hao as thcr president Charles M.I ' Levev. Kclatue to trie Santa Fe lines, it is pro. M, to I that President K. P. j Kiplev will retire next year on account of age. and be sucrocde .'; bv VY. H. ; , Morev of Chicago, a former San Fran-; Fran-; Cisco man and a graduate of tLe l'ni-versitv l'ni-versitv of California. Storey was first vice president of the Santa Fe before I jthe government took over the railroad 1 lines. He is now federal manager of I the sv s:om. ', |