Show UNION PACIFIC LINE I ITO TO LOS Attempt to Secure S Possession Possess on of Old Grade J SIGNIFICANCE OF F c DS OP ON ON O THE TE THEW TEP W P L IJ in inh capacity as coun counsel sol sel for or the tho Oregon Short Line left for tor torReno Reno Nev accompanied by b bV V y K E I Critzer chief clerk of Ot the he engineer engineering lag ing t and 1100 nd other to attend court Their ease case 1 It one Involving the therl i right rit rl tat to u out ve mile of ot the old railroad grade grada beyond Uvada which was 1 BOW soki ii long Ions tIme tima ago for fa or delinquent taxes The ground Involved ln lie u partially on what whitt wao wa intended to be the main line lino to toLoa Los Loa Angeles and nd partially on tho the branch line to An expensive tunnel is isi i Included In In tho the distance nce Th fact tact that the Union Pacific people I are ro re making a fight for tor the recovery of the ild survey ie 1 a strong indication that ho the hoUnion Union Pacific contemplate he the h extension exten lon lonor of or the Utah Pacific to the coast as detailed deb in those these e columns column several weeks we k kago ago It Jt i Ic Its evident Intention to block th the Clark dark road rond tho the San Pedro Los An AnC C gd eI Salt S lt Lake If it cannot stop this company from froni building recent develop development meats ment a welt well laid loid scheme to bottle bO le leIt It up UI in Ia Salt St t Lake Practically the same interests ts as own tho t o Union Umon Pacific and Southern Pacific havo barn now acquired the Rio Western W tern and Denver t Rip Rio leading 1 g the Los Angeles Angel tine Unc wi with i ionly only one hope that the tho Burlington will willI I come orne in la and take Its traffic the old survey to the coast coa t was made by the Union Pacific conditions were nere very ve different than they are today Southern Pacific C had h Its I Ithe monopoly on southern California n and was a feeIng feeding the Union P Pacific at t Ogden as now Whoa When the latter company made it Its survey to the tb coast and there were AVer powerful igna r that h f it would build bt T in ln that t t direction Jr CoUte C P Huntington the ultimatum t that at has since stopped stopp d every effort of or the Union Pacific down to the day duy of the tho Utah Pacific to invade southern terri tern territory t tory He Ho 4 Id 1 tho the nr first t spike driven en would me n not only 5 cea Uon atlon of or friendly re te but iUt the diversion or of ev every ry bit of at through ugh Ogden over the t Rio Grande lines line The Tho threat went The Union Pacific had expended a vast amount of oC money in a roadbed and securing tag ing t rights tf of way beyond Event Eventually i I the Pacific built miles or of tUte tw road The Southern Pacific de do demanded demanded an explanation of or the Union Pacific The reply was that tho the Utah Pacific had purchased that portion of or th thoM the oM oki grade do Huntington could not provo prove anything to the contrary but probably bad Imd ibis his opinion and nd said I the tho Union Pa had no right rich to tell sell However ho compelled the Uio Utah Pacific to stop at atthe the state line Hue The recent r ent purchase of or he the Southern l no by Union Pacific Interests ts leaves the way open to the tho consummation con of this old oW project When carried out the Union will wilt have havo throe three lines to the tho Pa Pacific Pacific cub coast one to Portland on tho the north one to the th central point San Sait Francisco Francl o and the third to Los An A elet So far tr as Salt Lake JAke is 18 concerned it matters little who builds the line Uno to the coast and amid the t prediction ti of or a great groat many that if the road coad al was ever e mutt it would o be fulfilled by the Union Pacific promises to be |