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Show G. N. Extension Deserves Okeli If the interstate commorce commission has the interests of the west at heart it will grant the Great Northern and Western Pacific roads the right to extend their lines into San Francisco. The commission is holding hearin.es on the. sub.ieet in the Bay City. The G. N.-W. P. application is opposed by the Southern Pacific, which now rias a monopoly of traffic over a great part of the new route. Healthy competition in travel and transportation between be-tween north and south Pacific coas:s will Hurt no one. it will open up new territory, develop new business and make for spt-edier, cheaper service. Business men and industrialists of the west are almost unanimously for the Great Northren extension to the Golden Gate. There should be little delay in granting the application. |