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Show thing, for 11 tbia inUrmounUin region. For twenty year and more the old Central Pacific road waa run in th intere at of San Franciaeo and the 'Union Pacific in the interest of - Omaha. Neither road waa run aa a common carrier; both were carried on for the aole purpoae of adding add-ing to the revenue of tha chief atoekholdera. and the ihortaightedneaa exercised at both end of the long line waa apparent to the dullest cititeo in the interior who ever studied for an hour the aitua-tion. aitua-tion. Had they been merged and their business directed from this central point, instead of being kept separate and directed from the east and west ends, it would have been much more effective in results; for the truth, would long ago have been discovered that this interior ragion had more ele-menta ele-menta of profit to an honest railroad than any railroad rail-road in the rich valleys of the -east. The through business waa what both roads mosj earnestly sought, and the business along yie line of the roada wss treated as only so' much plunder for the stockholders. It waa a common remark for the chief stockholders to refer to the interior re-gion re-gion as merely a bridge. - And when in more than one case it was made clear that, to a railroad, one healthy lead-silver mine waa worth more than a township of the finest land in the Mississippi or Missouri valleys, and that a road through such a district was worth more to ita owners than one through a rich agricultural' county, it made no difference. They ran the roada for what they could get from them with the leaat repairs poa-aibla poa-aibla until tha dht Ml Hm, and than left thorn shattered, a mere streak of rusty steel and right of way, and did not know that they "Lika tha baa Indlaa. throw apaari sway "lobar thaa all hi triba." As Mr. Harriman made clear in the first three years of his management. With them it waa a caae not of vaulting ambition, but 'of vaulted avarice, which overreached itself. THE. U.P.MERCER CASE. Without considering the bearings of the Sherman Sher-man or any other law on the case, from a busineas standpoint thef deciaion in the Union Pacific merger mer-ger rase is manifestly right. That merger ahould have been made the day the locomotives touched noses at Promontory. It would have been a great t '. |