| Show I VANDERBILT ROAD NOW il I Oregon Short Line Becomes Such by the New Arrangement I 1 I FROM TiE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC I 1If 11 Condition 01 1ft tnt 110 Vanderbilt III I itoo 11envtrixr orreamrstr I Many Mouth 1in i I I New York Jan IThe control of ho Oregon Itallwa Navigation Co having been obtained by the reorgant 4 allon commlllee of Ihe Union 1aclfle Railroads Ibo Vanderbllla are now In virtual posmcrmfon nC 1 through transcontinental trans-continental line Tho New York Cen ral Is I the first rood In the combination from this point At Buffalo It eon I I ects with the Lake Shore for Chicago nt which imlnl the chain Is I carried ono I 5 I on-o Omaha by the Chicago R Noith I lIe I western and from there the Union Pit i cities the Oregon Short Line and Dm Oregon llnllvvajr i Navigation com i pan complete tin line lo Portland 4 Oregon unit 10 Tacuma on Puget Sound All Ibo road are Vanderbilt 11 oads and the total mileage Is 134JO I k This achievement by Ibo Vnndcrbllls I In I considered one of tie biggest rail I way deals that his been accomplished I In recent years I gin one company 14 or set of financial Interests an ab j olulely Iramconllncntnl road For I eats thin has been holed for Elrug I Id < for and dreamed oC but never lie I lure have tindlllons been favorable for ondilon tavornli I such a consummation Not only do the Vanderbllls now conlrol the Short 11 R 11 11 Line and the Oregon Hallway Navl I gallon company bill the Union Pacific 1 as well What the future may bring it so to Utah and the Went as 1 result of I R Jeelur the transaction Is I Bill a mailer of con I r I 1 I W H InncroC generra manager and 1V vice presldenl ot the Oregon Short I I I Ilne was seen In his office by n rr enlallvo of the News and asked 1 I ullat lie knew oC the consummation of ol I the glgnntlo deal and he pleasantly and emphatically replied Absolutely I I nothing The newspaper dispatches i alai nil and i more > than I know ot the 11 matter Aookeh as 10 what effect the transtc 1 o I lon would have on Utah and other I i i Welrn Iltert he declared that bo 1 could nol tell anti Intimated that even If he knew he had had too much rail I road experience 10 communicate such an opinion 10 the public Nhero the retention re-tention Of It In Ills own mind might verve a much better purpose In the I future AIn A-In connection with the telegraphed I I statement that the Valderbl have I curd the control II Is I claimed that t hey tnl cut no figure In the deal Ile I Ili I I yond the use of their nl and that it J I J Plirpont Morgan 1 Is I the real power behind the thtone J A i |
