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Show THE UNION PACIFIC TERMI-! NUS QUESTION. Tlic Ncljr:i?ika-lowa lilit iviir (In: leruiiual question ul' (In: l I', 11. It has grown im n simple l:twern two rival tiiwnr to omt U;twtn two' Stale.-, in which the euiirti cuiiiiity i-1 Inclining largely ink-rcr-td. Wool" the wi-.il are financially inlcrc.-tt'd in t he matter, fur frum the Cai't that tin-U. tin-U. 1. will not deliver freight, nor pas-HonKern pas-HonKern in Iowa, nor receive there, and that the luwa road.s will neither receive nor deliver in Omaha, the traii.-l'er ar-rane ar-rane merit impost's a tarifl'of ten dollars per ear luad on all freight crowing the Mi.-sstmri river, detained fur either cast or went. With the heavy shipuients of ores from this region this amount would aggregate in a year a sum of considerate magnitude on that artiele of freight alone, and ninkiia the question ques-tion of the tcrniiim-i an important one-to one-to Utah, not became Utah has aDy direct di-rect interest in where it is located, but in the abolishment of the transfer system. sys-tem. As the transfer schedule now stands the rates between Ninth and Marcy street1), Omaha, and Lake Station, Sta-tion, Iowa, arc as follows : Single passenger fare, C) cents; freight, per cavlnad, $!o; freight, per luu lbs, 7 cent; providing, however, that no single package or article oi" froight shall be transported a toss the bridgo for a less amount than 2o cents. This is the oflicial schedule, higned by Ueorge W. lloman, jr., contractor, and 1. 1. Shelby, superintendent. There is in Little Cottonwood canon alone, to day, sufficient ore ready for shipment to make this tariff on it over fifteen thousand dollars, were it all shipped over the U. P. line east. This is no small matter; hut when to it is added tho ore and bullion from the different dif-ferent mining camps and their reduction reduc-tion works, aggregated i'or a year, the figures would run up to an amount that tew would imagine without actual calculation. cal-culation. Council Mulls contends that, us the act of congress of July 1, iJSGii, provided that the President of the United States should fix tho terminus, and as President Presi-dent Liucoln did fix it "withiu the limits lim-its of tho township, in Iowa, opposite to the town of Omaha," that therefore the Union Pacific company should carry freight and passengers to and deliver tlum at the place so designated. Omaha contends that the Union Pacific is bound to make its eastern terminus on the Xebvask side, pursuant to agree-1 in cut made; that the road was to be! built from "a point on (he western! boundary of tho State of luwa," not ''within," and that such point must be tit Nebraska, which is on the western j boundary. There are legal questions 1 involved, and although the report of the government directors declared in J favor of Iowa, the advocates of the j claims of Omaha have not conceded a ! single inch of tho points in dispute. ' While tho struggle continues, traffic j pours over the new bridgu cast and j west, and the transfer company arc reaping a rich harvest gleaned from ! shippers of freight, business men gen- crally and passengers. ! The rivalry between Omaha and' Council Bluffs has long appeared to us anything but a sensible struggle. Al-! though divided by a wide river and be-1 ing situated in different States, their! interests should be identical. A large ! city can be built there, but two cannot. ( And while such a city will command : tho business of a wide extent of country, being a natural centre, it would grow with much more rapidity wero there a blending instead of a dividing of interests. inter-ests. True, politically each would be a separato city, with its own local government gov-ernment and under the general laws of ita own State; yet commercially it would be one, its influence radiating hundreds hun-dreds of miles in every direct ion. But while this struggle for supremacy sup-remacy goes on, each making strenuous stren-uous efforts to secure advantages over its rival, and tho eastern i terminal point of the Union Pacific! railroad is an unsettled question, the j trausfer business is continued and ship-1 ers of freight over the Missouri river J have to bear tho extra charges. It is I to be hoped this disturbing question ! may be speedily and finally settled, not I alone for the benefit of shippers but of the U. P. road a well; for there must of necessity be an enormous traffic to : and from this region, in some direction, I large the present year, and steadily i growing larger, of which much should I pass over the Union Pacific road. And ' everything which acts as a retarding tariff upon the business of the line, will tend to drive freight by other routes. |