Show EFFECT I oF t tM May M ay CO n e I S f Pacific 4 VIll V f an nta ta F Fe STOPPED SOPPED BY Y A THEAT TO THE T CR ROAD ROADA O OA A Salt St Laker Lake wh wb wh is I i well posted on en railroad matters e suie tilted yesterday etea ht since the consolidation at n ok d a the tl e Southern and Union Pacific there ere is s po A l t that the Utah Ut Pacific will willed ed south to connect either with the t e e sut Blake road or the Utah Arizona thus giving the Union Pacific anther am outlet to the coast OOt and forestalling the San Pedro Los Angeles Salt Lake for the business bustness of southern California This Thin rumor has hafl been in circulation tlona a number of times Umes recently but there never was so much credence given it as asat asat asat at present with news of deals arid and re reports reports reports ports of combinations at New York YorkI treading upon each ea h h others heels The I Heralds informant states that the Utah Pacific P extension towards the coast was stopped by a threat from the Southern Pacific to cease the inter of business with the Union nion Pa Pacific Pacific rifle at Ogden A short while before the Southern Pacific was w s acquired by bythe bythe bythe the Harriman interests the th Short Line Lines secured s an option m on the Utah Pa Pacific Pacific Pacific and the report is that it will now purchase that road roa out and out The next step will be to extend the line south from front the state line about miles until it meets the Utah Ac Arizona Ariz ne or Blake road roa both of which are Santa Fe connections This would a good route for the Harriman n people to southern California Not more than miles of road would have to be constructed to make this connee connection connection tion with wit Kinsman on the Santa Fe Jie Jeand and ft it could be built In m much less time than the Clark line The latter would find a heavy competitor in the field by bythe b bythe the time it reached Los Angeles should all this some to pass It would have to share a busineSs upon which it might have had a monopoly had the Southern Pacific deal not gone through |