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Show IN BAI LAV A Y CIRCLES. A GROWING BELIEF THAT THE 4 ASSOCIATIONS MUST GO. A Crash i Imminent The Hun Fran-eico Fran-eico & Ureat Salt Lake Attracting Attract-ing Attention in the East Huntington Hunt-ington in a Xfw Venture The Western Freight Association Adjourned Ad-journed lor .Month Stall way Xotes. An influential minority of railroad men is coming to believe that the best interests of the roads lie in the destruction of all existing exist-ing associations. They arguei that the associations asso-ciations iu no wise prevent cut-rate deals, which are as frequent to large shippers as ever. These illegal rates destroy the first .principle of associations equality among members. It is an established fact that if a railroad wants to do an illegal act it will do it with or without the consent of the association. as-sociation. Said a well-known Chicago railroad man - recently: "The whole association principle is wrong in that it pretends to maintain rates and docs nothing of the sort. We must pick our Hints again until they will strike a spark every time. It is a vast waste of money, tli is keeping alive a lot of associations which benetit no one. The Atchison, for instance, pays $::00,000 a year as its share of association associa-tion expenses and yet niaiotains the grain deal with Peavey which gives him a monopoly monop-oly of the Kansas business. Suppose the Atchison's new policy of openly meeting t-ecret reductions 6hould be followed by its competitors? Kansas grain rates would go down with a tumble.- The Burlington has livestock deals with favored shippers and yet wants to amend the Western Freight association as-sociation rul -s by making it harder to reduce re-duce rates. Where is the use iu associations when rates arc notoriously cut in some way by every member? I think our road will soon save money by resigning from all its associations and steadily refusing to join any other until the agreement is made something some-thing besides words." NEW LINE ACROSS HOXnt'RAS. President Huntington of the Southern Pacific Pa-cific is interesting himself in a railroad across Honduras, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Two small roads already built can be utilized. The main line, from ocean to ocean, will be tiiH) miles long. Mr. Huntington Hunting-ton characterizes the Panama canal as an illusion and does not believe the Nicaragua canal will ever be built. The proposed road will be built under a valuable concession of Hie Honduras government given to Baron H. Van Auken. AlUOUKNEl) FOR FOt'R MONTHS. The Western Freight association has adjourned ad-journed until December. At a previous meeting it was agreed that regular meetings of the association should hereafter be held quarterly instead of monthly, and the object ob-ject in taking a four months' intermission at this time is to begin the quarterly meetings meet-ings in December, and so avoid midsummer sessions in the future. In the meantime the members are to retain all their rights under un-der the agreement, and special meetings may be called if necessary. THE SAX FRANCISCO A SALT LAKE. The organization of the San Francisco & Great Salt Lake raiiroad is attracting a great deal of attention in the Fast. One of the most influential papers in the country, in speaking of this enterprise, said on Saturday: Satur-day: "The lvronosed new railwav line be- day: "The proposed new railway line between be-tween San Francisco and Ogden will be called the San Francisco fc Great Salt Lake railroad. The directorate has been increased to fifty members, holding office until the preliminary work is completed. The road will be Duo miles long. The financing was greatly hindered by Southern Pacific olticials, who offered large concessions in the sale of Southern 1'acitlc securities to capitalists who had agreed to put money into the new line. 1 n some cases the oilers were accepted, but members of the directorate claim there will be no further delay in securing money for construction." RAILWAY NOTES. President Huntington of the Southern TueiHe professes to disbelieve the report that transcontinental lines will hereafter refuse to contribute to the Pacific Mail subsidy of ?S0,ooo a year. His sources of information cannot he the ollieials of other transcontinental roads. The At' hison will make a round trip rate between Chicago and Kansas City during dur-ing the Pythian conclave. This action has created a good deal of opposition, and Chairman Chair-man Caldwell of the Western Passenger association lias taken the matter under advisement. ad-visement. There is no doubt but that the $5 rate will be adhered to, whether it is authorized by Chairman Caldwell or not. The situation has become too 6trained to admit of any half-way measures, aud it is evident that the Chicago lines will not permit per-mit a technicality to stand between them and their legitimate share of business. |