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Show . I, - l A I . - . . , ... . ' 1 N' i' V ; Tr .' ; '- V L-iwr lt.iiuiiuiierz : C:-:cti:n WMf lib i Grc::c 7i!l Give Hill S!::rt Rcutc'tp Ccist TThUe In Ogden Saturday, E. H.' Har-rlman. Har-rlman. who control the great railroad tystera which bears his name, said that his trip from New York to San Francisco Fran-cisco was merely' a pleasure Jaunt for his daughter's health. "Of course,' he said, "X have la hand a few business matter that require, my. attention." That was the "burden of his explanation for the public. From a few remarks made privately it appeara that among these few business matters that required re-quired his attention la one, at leasts of the greatest Importance to Mr. Harri man and his railroads. The contracts entered ltb last year .Vby the United States Government and James J. Hill's railroad for the trans " portatlon of Government troops and i supplies to the Philippines expire July 1st. ; ' Wanta GpTernxnent Contracts. From remarks . made by Mr. Harrl-rcan, Harrl-rcan, It appears that he Is determined to secure the Government's Philippine business this year for his roads, which Include the Union Pacific, the Southern Pacific and the Pacific Mail Steamship company's line to the Orient, which he Is also said to control. When last year the Government decided de-cided to withdraw a large number of its transports from the Philippine service and to let the transportation of troops and mails out to the companies operating operat-ing steamship lines between the Pacific coast and the Orient, the fight between Harrtman and Hill for the business waa a bitter one. Hill won It, and since that time the business has been going over the Great Northern and by Hlli;s steamships to. the Orient from Seattle. . When Harriman learned he had lost .the fight he declared he would get the business In the future If money and good railroads would make It possible. He cald he waa going to cut down the time from New York to San Francisco to three and a half days and. with this object In view, authorised improve-ments improve-ments on the Union Pacific and Southern South-ern Pacifio that wUl cost In the neighborhood neigh-borhood of HO.OOO.OOO. Many of the improvements im-provements have been made and many others are nearlng completion. Beady for Tierce Battle. ' That he Intends to be In a position by July 1st to wage a fierce war against Hill la evidenced by the fact that all alone; the line of Improvements, both on the Lucin cut-off and elsewhere, the construction gangs are . working both day and night. These things all considered, it would HJfppear that the trip over his line he 7 Is now taking Is for the express pur-i pur-i pose of organizing his forces for the coming fight with Hill. The Importance to Salt Lake of the outcome of this fight is great, for the .(' reason . that if .the Government favors San Francisco Instead of 8eattle for the Pacific coast port Hill will endear-or. endear-or. to secure the business to that point In connection with the Burlington and the Moffat road cut-off from Kremm-Ung Kremm-Ung to Wolcott on the Rio Grande, and eventually over the Moffat road to Salt Lake. - Moffat Line Is Shorter. This route will give Hill a shorter rqute to the coast than Harriman has. It Is well known that the traffic alliance alli-ance existing between .the Burlington. Moffat and the Rio Grande are of a nature na-ture to Insure the success of such a deal. - - What the outcome of the fight may be remains to be seen, but It la certain that while the fight is on it will be for blood. |