Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-06-07 | Page 4 | Powerful Rail Interests Plan West Control

POWERFUL RAIL INTERESTS PLAN ISTJONTROL Big Mergers Are Under Way to Seize Advantages in Great Undeveloped Empires Em-pires of This Section . KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 7 Hy V t IV)- Powerful rail groups were mobll- ling foreeg today to war for the trans- j port m Ion control of the West. I Merger of the Chlcfco Alion and! "Katy" systems, and purchase of the! lOntrul I'acific by the L'nion I'acific, j I reliably reptrteA ' In Kanst-: City. St. , !,oiii and fhlcago railroad c.rcb as' bdn umliT n'gotl.ition. were dfclsired to bo the first moves iti ulih'iimet.t t millions. Kucli of the merger if completed , j would form hcpHiute efforts in train the( tonind of the futuru industrial empires i now only partially developed, it was' believed. J Tim Alton and "Katy" comblnnt Ion would nivc th- Santa I V uroup hvsh m ; the gratet competition for the trains-j p-rttit inn of the Southwe.it which it' now controls. The l'nion Vaciflr. In purchasing the Central Pacific, wuuld Un k horns with lKwt-rful Western road. Plans for -purchase of the Central Pacific by lb- l'nion Pacific arc ldng drawn in the hitter's legal officea in Oninha. Iivorcing of the Central Pacific from the South rn Pacific by t he supreme court was declare! to have been responsible re-sponsible for opening of miot iat ions by the l'nion I'acific and the prexeut invest Igation of b italitlt s in contemplation contempla-tion of the purchase.