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Show i PREPARES -FOR GRERTj STRUGGLE Haniman to Spend $25,-000,000 $25,-000,000 to1 K3etCompeti-i K3etCompeti-i tion; Wants 5000 Labor-) Labor-) ers for Development ' SAN' FRANCISCO, Nov,' 1. The ' i Southern Pacific js-ants 500O laborers. ) This is the statement of one of the V local officials. Oijders have just come .from Harriman to hasten the develop- jnent of the Pacific slope "lines and the officials are getting busy. ' Within the J nfxt two years over $25,000 000 will ' be spent in the construction of lines on I the Pacific, eoast by the Htfrnman sys- ieit is the preparation for the f struggle in raUroad competition that is Vorniig. With Hill. on the north and he Gould line creeping-across the con--Uinent, Harriman realixes that it will a great fight and that the life of ' ?V)ig systems wUl depend on the Cj.?leteness with which they are eouipped with feeders. . lHence at i every available point ) -imlll wads are being absorbed, others ! e beine built and the Southern Pacific Pa-cific it developing all territory possib e to get ready for what Harriman caUs - . the "age. of railroad competition." |