| Show IN RAILWAY CIRCLES A Deal on Between the 0 S Land L-and 0 R N Jtt 4 HURLBURT AND CAMPBELL 0 WILL ABRrp IN SALT LAKE f THIS HORNING tv The Visit is Looked Upon as Very SignificantA Big Raymond Whitcomb Excursion Party in Town Tlie Latest by Wire IIJ The arrival in Salt Lake this morning of W H Hurlburt general passenger and ticket agent and B Campbell general gen-eral freight 4gent of the Oregon Rail strengthens way Navigation company ens the report that some important changes are impending in the management manage-ment of that system Z These officials are here to attend the conference of Union Pacific and Oregon r Short Line people the exact nature of which has noc yet developed except so far as one of its numerous details are concerned the close agreement on traffic matters To one who keeps apace with railway diplomacy it is a significant signifi-cant fact that Edwin McNeil receiver I and general manager of the O R N a has not been called into consultation when this question seems to have been of sufficient importance to require the presence of E Dickinson and W H Bancroft general managers respectively re-spectively of the other two lines Not more than three weeks ago Mr Campbell Camp-bell and Mr Hurlburt ware visitors at the Short Line headquarters in this city at which time they stated in an interview with The Herald that the object ob-ject of their presence here was to discuss dis-cuss traffic matters agreeable to both lines culminating in a close traffic coalition On the surface the present trip would appear to be a final adjustment adjust-ment of things spoken of informally during the last visit but added interest is given by an Associated Press dispatch dis-patch of yesterday morning emanating from Omaha the headquarters of the Union Pacific system and in which an unauthenticated statement appears hinting the removal of Mr McNeil and the appointment of W H Bancroft to fill the vacancy Of course the enduring endur-ing conference has no power to behead Mr McNeil as receiver as he is the representative of the United States court but the directorate of that line may appoint Mr Bancroft without incurring in-curring very much inconvenience thus relieving Mr McNeil of the active operating oper-ating management of the system Such a change as the one suggested from Omahn would mean practically that the Unon Pacific Oregon Short Line and O R N bond controlling interests had effected what has been prophesied by wellposted railroad men ever since the reorganization of the key system the Short Line namely name-ly that a through direct and unob structed connection to the coast is the aim of the syndicate back of the Union Pacific and now seekingto put that road back on its feet It is a subject of public information that these people j are the Vanderbilts and their allies for f the personnel of the Union Pacific reorganization f a t re-organization committee was fully exploited ex-ploited in The Herald some weeks ago f at which time the O R N movement i t < f move-ment now predicted from Omaha was outlined It is very apparent that under such dubious surroundings no positive declaration dec-laration of a union between the Short Line and theO R N can be made I All that is permitted bv the appearances appear-ances is the pointing out of the additional addi-tional color to the Omaha hint General Manager Bancrofts attention I atten-tion was called quite sharply yesterday afternoon to the little tale that came over the wire He dismissed the subject i sub-ject very briefly with a negative answer I an-swer as to his knowledge of the plan No confirmation was obtainable from I any of the Union Pacific officials In I fact these gentlemen were as noncommittal I non-committal as ever Their conference r was resumed at 11 oclock yesterday I i morning and lasted until 6 in the evening I even-ing Nothing more than was printed on the first days session was given ouL They were unaware of the coming of Mr Campbell or Mr Hurlburt but a telegram from those officials to the I Knutsford asking that accommodations accommoda-tions be reserved settled that doubt |
