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Show MEETING Of HI l! GRANDE SfFIGlif Vice-President and Traffic SlafT ager Will Be in Salt ' Lake Today. JW" TRAFFIC ARRANGEMENT lif WITH NEVADA NORTHER!? . This May Be Made Today; Haulr ,! Via Gould Road Would If Be Shorter. sfi C. IL Schlacks, vice-president of tfcji Denver & Uio Grande railroad syatem :lMfC will arrive in Salt Lake City today andfl. ' it is whispered that business of im.lm, portanco brings Mr. Schlacks west atMW this lime. The fact that A. S. Hughe !V general traffic manager of tho Hystenjllifftl is also in the west and that tho twoMN officials will meet hero today gives cre-U denco lo tho supposition. jffl Mr. Hughes, .s. V. Dcrrah, assiBtaniSlt general freight agent, of tho Denver &fls Uio Grande, nnd S. C. Ecclea, viee-prtJljK dent and general manager of the ifHn vada Northern, wera in Ely, Nct"'tBw Wednesday, and it is possible that nnlUlft: of the missions which brings lirMfifv Schlacks west at thia time may bo thiHS' consummation of a traffic arrangenientBr-between arrangenientBr-between the Western Pacific- ami ttaiM&i Nevada. Northern, whereby the traffiegEt of the Nevada Northern will bo liandledil & by tho Western Pacific from the con-t n'ection at Bews Siding. The belief! L that this arrangement would bo mads; has been generally entertained for sorae time. The Western Pacific has not I b seriously considered building into ElyJ :V at least not at present. The under-V standing always has been that a con-t L. nection would be effected with the Ne-sj vada Northern and that it would be-f como the ally of the Western Pacific, j Hr.nl Would Be Shorter. 3 At present the Nevada Northern con-1 f.P) necfts with the Southern Pacific at fj Cobre. If tho "Western Pacific was to L build to Ely it would enter into cempc. 1 u(i tition vith the Jlarriman road for tho J B traffic, whereas if a traffic arrance- f tt-ment tt-ment was effected with the Ely line tho I t' Gould road would get tho business un-i fa-less fa-less otherwise routed. And the aii fa rangemeiit would also be to the advan-A ifc tagn of the people of tho Ely sections because tho haul by vay of tho West-I fe cm Pacific would be some seventy miles-j shorter than over the Hnrriman line. S Among the other matters which may; p. demand tho attention of Mr. Schlacksflk while here may be the new depot, unonp . which work should be rushed, and otherjj Ipt matters of traffic and terminals. Thd it opening of traffic on this end of that; Western Pacific may also be scheduled.; k. Rumors have been current of late;- . that E. II. Harriman has secured soma! h control in Western Pacific affairs. Maf ? Thelen of the law department of tho l-t Western Pacific, at a celebration of welcome to tho new road .at Niles, CaL, g made the following official statement:;; 9 "I have been authorized to say oir behalf of the Western Pacific managerl i ment that the reports recentty sent ouAlS from tho East that Harriman has gob-sj.' bled up the new road and that the line, ? would be controlled by tho Southern Pacific company aro absolutely untrne; f and without foundation. Tt would ba f a calamity if such a transfer should j? come to .pass. The. Western Pacific" 1 company is building its own read, and! It! means to operate its own road indepen-"; ,J dently of Mr. Harriman and the South-'; '-j em Pacific." J |