Show A SAN FRANCISCO FIELD Short Line and Western Against the IT P and S P San Francisco June 2The Inauirira tion of a thorough car service bctveen Portland and Chicago via Sacramento announced a few days ago is sad to be a move on the part of the Southern Pacific Pa-cific and the Union Pacific in Deposition i to a new route that was opened Saturday from the northwest through transcontinental transconti-nental territory It is stated that a traffic arrangement hns been effected between the Oregon Short Line and the Rio Grande roads effective Saturday w Itch makes the Short Line a competitor rather than a connection of the UnIon Pacific as it has been In the past Deprived De-prived thus of a Portland connection the Union Pacific has linked its fortune Uh the Southern Pacific in a clan to control a portion of the traffic of the northwest as against the Short Line and its connections connec-tions The tariff arrangement between the Oregon Short Line and the Rio Grande Western is the first tangible evidence that the new managers of the property Intend to operate the road independently of te Union Pacific system It is an arrangement arrange-ment that opens up a new tinsconti nerrtal route for freight and passenger traffic between Chicago and Portland and by means of the ocean steamers of the Oregon Railway and Navigation company com-pany which is a party to the big traffic deal between Chicago and San Francisco Fran-cisco |