Show UTAH CENTRALS HLAT DEAL SIR MR 11 GREGOR IS A TRAFFIC thama EXPERT the canyon rond road retires from the ore or business and tho the union pacific gets it We western sterns point of view railroad men say bay james mcgregor eeor smiles these days as us a cat does when the cream Is rich on lla its xhi whiskers moreover they say sir mr mcgregor has reason to smile for he has recently skinned the cream of the park cuy city ore business in one of 0 the neatest traffic deals known in these parts the negotiations date back quite a while and have several side aide issues according to insiders the utah contrat contral railway of which mr mcgregor cROp la Is receiver lost some very heavy shippers of ore through mr igo mcgregors personal difficulties in the silver hinr cases which were decided on friday list past As a result the alo grande wet ern tile tho utah centrals central eastern connection tion lost the ore business which tt it had worked hard to retain in the face of 0 tempting offers to induce it to withdraw from tile the field vlen the time came for renewal of ore contracts between the park city mines lines and the colorado S sm melters elters a number of the big biff producers stipulated that none of their ore should go affo over the utah central some men would have ben been dismayed at such a prospect but mr 11 cGregor seems to have ben equal to the emer rency F lie ile visited omaha with 1 mr eccles and mr bancroft in a pa I 1 te maill car then when ho be returned ho he mailed ed this letter to traille Mant gler babcock of elf the western utah central Rall railway Comp tiny of james jamea an clarence cary salt sait lake city utah do amber 31 1833 1893 mr air S T H 4 babcock traffic manager n rio 0 G grando rondo western railway city dear sir lla Hali ing if temporarily IM t r fly withdrawn Ith drawn from tho the oro ore busi business e rl this I 1 I 1 s Is to you that further brotice vie will not handle any oro ore I 1 also beg t aft adaise you that effective J january 1 we w wilt will require our local aal rates to and from park city on all freight destined to or originating tit points on the rio plo grando grande western railway and connections chich w aich tt ul abiog abio pato to tin on our part th tho a exiting rates rad and n divisions thereof on all features of freight traffic yours truly J MIGI inGolt receive r this was accepted as meaning a traffic arrangement between the ut butali a it contral central cona cena and the union pacific w which hach would give the latter road a monopoly of the ore business out of 0 park park city in return for a proper consid consideration 0 r lion to be paid tho the utah central tor for 1 lc ea alne ing the field since tile the utah central had already lost the business and the union pacina would have had it a men monopoly 0 poll anyway traille traffic men think mr air mcgregor turned a neat trick when lie he maae a deal for his road aich which insured it some bome return WESTERN WESTERNs s rom POINT T OP OF VIEW an of the rio grande west ern stirred up by bv a mis statement misstatement q tat ement of the situation in the herald talked about it yesterday ite he said mr james We macgrecor McG Gregor receiver of the tha utah cc central rail railway Y con company served d notice on tile tho rio gabind grando W es ay iy c company december that effective january ast his company would sever all raffle relations with tho the rio grando western ari ar I its connecting lims this Is tho the result of a deal between mr mcgregor and tho the union po pa compana under which the latter la Is to have an a absolute monopoly of all oro ore traffic tc as 08 well as 03 other through ugh business to and from park city and under this ihla trade biado park city Is again ri to tho the obscure position of a local point on tho the union pacific system and tho the rio grando grande western and its connecting lines closed out of participation la in or abass to tho the business the aple and mine ot owners ners of park will fully appreciate mr mcgregors McGree ors action in bottling them up un shutting thyn them ot orr from tho the great brent or of competition via the rio grande Nv estern mirt and compelling t them here to pa the union pacific whether they wish ish to t do so or not tho the rio grande western la Is practically unaffected by the arrangement as for several months past tho the principal parties carlies concerned havo have refused to ship ores via tho the utah central road for the alle ired reason of personal differences with mr and the th western company had bad no hope of securing scouring tiny traffic of con pt quence from park city for an indefinite time for the reason mentioned it la Is pretty generally understood that the th output of most of tho the principal mines of park city for 1 ie has han already been contracted for by colorado Color parties and velh fth a stipulation in tit alio contracts that tho the ores orca were not to ile bv shipped by tho the utah central so PO long as aa mr mcgregor continued in the mann net thereof hence as it was not likely lluc k ly that tho the iuta utah central could elairo adv business of importance por tanco out of park city during the continuance of mr Me Gregors effora manao manage mont the latter appear i to have worker worked tile union pacific people very effectually to the extent of aligne out to them business which ho he mr mcgregor could not control it has not bean made public what the no union pacific company has haa agreed to pay the utah central company for its pro tossed abandonment of the business ib but j hud had the iho officials of that company known ILc wll that the business was already secured to their line for the reason and ami in tho the mannor manner stated it Is not likely lluc ly that they would have gratuitously donated a very important amount to the utah central tropic people in payment for something they a ready already po pressed essed tho the rio orando grande western comp company ariy or of course in consequence of tho lie action lion of the iho receiver ol of the utah control company was forced to notify its various connecting lines that it could not longer secure ahm access to park city and the iho bouto lias has accordingly been closed to become t effective as aa boon a as a it can legally he ha done which will aiu bo be about january in this connection mr eccles said yesterday that he be knew nothing about the smelter contracts or the antagonism to mr mcgregor the arrangements made lie he said will not affect park city bistes rates tho the union pacific will continue to treat it as 93 it treats all of its territory on a fair air basis with au all the advantages possible in the way of rates and facil facilities ites |