Show T1LLTIIEIIPIEXTED U P 1 Strong Symptoms of Designs the Deep Creek Country THE SURFACE INDICATIONS Traffic 3Iauager Monroe and Mr Ecclcs ill Conference > I Plr Hlonrog Say tho Deep Creek Country Coun-try Js Rich and a Road Will Be Built Somo Day Ball I way Ifotes I thei i For the first time in niany years the question of bui1din a road into the Deep Creek country is seriously agitating the heads of the high officials of the Union Pacific Several things have come to the surface within the last few weeks that point very conclusively to an organized movement on the part of the Union Pacific to Leadoff < Lead-off any rival company that may undertake under-take to construct a road to the west The I Union Pacific is in a position that it must either retrograde or progress The fr agitation for a road to the rich mining camps in this section has gone beyond its control and Messrs Clark and Dickinson I are aware that unless the Union i Pacific builds this year some other company will It has already lost ita prestage of having the < only bathing resort on the Great Salt lake Had it gone ahead and built a hotel at Garfield Beach as it should have i 1 done years ago it is quite probable that i the Saltair pavilion would have never been built Now the Union Pacific is not only confronted with a rival in the r bathing business that must seriously cut into the earnings of Garfield Beach but l it has a rival broadgauge railroad equipped with steel rails and rolling Stock of the best modern make Should f the Salt Lake Los Angeles company extend ex-tend its line into the Deep Creek country the Utah S Nevada gauge would cut a still more pitiable and helpless spectacle and the qestion is now whether the Union Pacific will abandon the field or change f the Utah Nevada Into a standard gauge and extend it into the Deep Creek country CLARK FAVORS IT S H H Clark has always favored the j t western extension and had he had hisway I the road would have been built years ago Now that he is again established as the L supreme head of the Union Pacific it is I quite probable that he will revive his old t T plans and devise means to start in for an aggressive westernmovement STATISTICS OK THE TRAFFIC THE HKBATT > has already apprised its readers of S W Eccles calling lor statements state-ments from representative mining men in the various Deep Creek camps for the purpose of securing statistics to submit to President Clark and General Manager Dickinson and also of the fact that a party of surveyors sur-veyors said to be sent out by Union Pacific Pa-cific officials who are now working their way westward into the Deep creek country L A Monroe the general traffic agent of the road arrived in the city yesterday and he was closeted until a late hour last nifJat with Mr Eccles at the Hotel Templeton At this meeting it is said that Mr Eccles submitted all the figures he had secured as to the amount of freight the mining camps could probably furnish to a railroad built into that country coun-try Mr Monroes services were necessary neces-sary as he could easily forecast an estimate esti-mate of probable earnings based on the mileage and tonnage It is also quite likely that Mr Monroe will make out a tariff schedule which Mr Eccles can use in securing contracts from the mine I I owners thus securing for the Union Pa I cific the bulk of the business should ant an-t opposition road be built I I MR MONROE TALKS After two efforts to reach Mr Monroe e a HERALD reporter was accorded an interview but not until a late hour last evening t Mr Monroe was in a very cheerful frame of mind and at once began talking about his trip to Spokane where he had a long interview with representatives of the Great Northern at which meeting the threatened war in rates was all amicably settled I Ycs I always stop at your city when passing this way said the mathematical diplomat in his most suave and complimentary compli-mentary manner It is intimated that your visit to this city is for the purpose of formulating a Bched 1e of rates for the proposed road to Deep Creek said the reporter 1 It will be time enough to get out a tariff schedule after the track has been laid said Mr Monroe l The Deep Creek country continued Mr Monroe i < his most general and evasive manner is said to be very rich and some day a railroad will no doubt be built there Mr Monroe has beeu absent from his home at Omaha for more than a month and he is anxious to return as soon as 1 possible But he has business here of such urgent and pressing importance that I it will take him until Saturday to complete r com-plete it r Those who are familiar with the rapidity rapid-ity of Mr Monroe in dealing with traffic figures can realize the amount of business k he will transact in the twentyfour hours f he is to remain in the city I |