| Show i AFTER THE O R N i Diverted Soldier Traffic Causes Trouble I Trou-ble in San Francisco I San Francisco Sept 25 Trouble Is brewing1 among the transcontinental lines over the division of the eastbound soldier travel out oC this el yrhc dlfllculty grows out of the fact that I the Santa Fe has not received Its I promised 27 per cent of the business I since the Oregon Railroad Navigation Naviga-tion company i has succeeded In diverting di-verting to the Portland route about I 10 per cent of this traffic It Is said I that forty men who returned from Manila on the Grant have refused lobe lo-be ticketed over the Santa Fe and may I go East by the northern line There Is a possibility that the ngreement for a division the soldier business may be canceled Mr Clarks Statement In his official statement made at Los Angeles J Rosa Clark of that ellI ell-I speaking for himself and for his brother included this paragraph Wo shall also nsk certain concessions from tho people of tho city of Salt Lake concessions which will cost them Individually j Individ-ually nothing but which will bo worth a I great deal In placing us upon an equal footing with like enterprises now In that eltWo rccoKnlxo tho fact that while I sill existing railroads with whom wo will be brought IntO competition have been built largely by subsidies received from I the Nation State or counties and cities and In some instances from all thcso sources combined that at tho present tlmo this method of assistance Is not open to new enterprises of this sorL Wo do foal1 however that those communities and sections which will bo directly benefited bene-fited by the Investment of our capital In a new and untried enterprise would dc sire to show their friendship to tho en tornrl40 by making the way easy for us by giving us good entrances Into the cities and towns by seeing that our right of way Is not made an expense to us ana by other such acts or muuia1 assist once as will bo the means of saving to ua very largely In the llrst cost of construction construc-tion ana at the sumo time will bo no considerable con-siderable tare upon any Individual Wo belleve too that the patrons of the road when completed will ba directly for all time benefited by anything which they may be able to do In the Inception of the enterprise to lessen the cost ot Inaugurating Inaugurat-ing It to us It will be our effort to make the original Investment us small as compatible com-patible with a construction which will enable en-able us to give n perfect service so that wo may avoid loading up the corporation with largo llxed charges hi tho form of Interest on bonds which will mean extravagant ex-travagant freight rates Trying to Get Together Chicago Sept Executives of the Western railroads wore In session the greater part of today considering the advisability of framing a pool on military mili-tary business to and from San Francisco Francis-co After much discussing a committee commit-tee representing the Santa Fe Southern South-ern Pacific Union Pacific and Rio Grande roads was appointed and requested re-quested to submit a representation concerning the formation of a pool on military business and organisation of a transcontinental combination on passenger pas-senger business The committee presented pre-sented a report later in the day The provisions of the report favored the formation of two pools one by lines east of Denver and El Paso and the other of lines west of those gateways In this proviso the setttloment of their differences Is left to the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific without Involving other lines In the dispute Railroad Notes President A W McCune of the Utah Pacific goes East today The Oregon Short Line has never done such a splendid business in Idaho as this year The Oregon Short Line will soon order or-der more locomotives says the Railroad Rail-road Gazette Wells Nov parties have shipped into in-to the Salt Lake stockyards live cars of sheep for disposition here President Mellon of the Northern Pacific Pa-cific wont Join the other roads In any agreement and comes out strongly against pools l Keogh Bros loaded yesterday at Soda Springs one train of yearling steers for Donelson Bros of Larimer county Cob and will load another train today for Eastern parties General Traffic Manager S W Eccles of the Oregon Short Line Is back from a New York and Chicago business trip lie reports good traffic conditions everywhere and Is of the opinion that this will be a banner year for railroads all over the country Senator W A Clark has not only Interested In-terested himself In the project of building build-ing the Salt LakoLos Angeles railway rail-way but several years ago he became Interested in the Alamltos beetsugar factory and has Invested more tItan a million dollars in that enterprise Edwin M RIne has been appointed acting superintendent of the Scranton division of the Laqkawanna with office at Scran ton Mr Rlnes appointment Is made to fill the position mode vacant va-cant by the promotion of T E Clarke to the olllce of general superlncndent of the Lackawanna J Ross Clark of Los Angeles passes through Ogden this morning on his way to Chicago VicePresident Gibbon Gib-bon meets him and the two will proceed pro-ceed East to meet Senator W A Clark at Chicago where all the leading men in the great enterprise Avlll be gathered Mr Gibbon will return here not later than next Tuesday |
