| Show I KANSAS PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT I Union Pacific Said t bo in Trim for Booming that Road Word comes from Omaha that the real significance of the Alton Kansas City s Southern alliance with the Union Pacific is the future rehabltation of the old Kansas Pacific now Kansas cll I IHlor of the Union Pacific that line running from Kansas City to Denver It has been dIn these columns how the old Kansas Pacific along with the I Short Line Gulf wore In tho old days of tho Union Pacific sacrificed the benefit of the main line 1 I But when the reorganization committee bought the Union Pacific the Kansas division was a part of the property and It cost considerable money so the now managers man-agers with tho foresight marking all their movements at once cast about for a plan whereby the Kansas division di-vision could be built up Independently of the main line This can be accom plluhed by the combination of the Alton Al-ton Kansas City Southern and Union Pacific Kansas division The Alton runs to St Louis and thence to Kansas City therefore will not compete with thC Northwestern or interfere with Omaha traffic Tho Kansas City Southern South-ern runs from Kansas City to Port Arthur Ar-thur on tho gu I By this arrangement the two roads can work up n now traffic traf-fic for the Kanoas division and only compete with the Sana Fe Missouri I Pacific and other systems In the south central region and at the same time not be l menace to the OmahaOgdpn or OmahaChicago lines The plan is I certainly cer-tainly I clever one and the result will certainly bo for the good of the Kansas division and the two roads mentioned with no detriment to the main line of the Union Pacific |
