Show ELM A OIL IM M W f A A B boon t to U utah a t ate should boula 5 not join hands with arizona to detour freight and pai via via el E I 1 paso and F the action of certain representative citizens SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES JF can be considered truly representative utah has climbed into Ari zonas band waon wagon A glante glance at the map shows that the interests of these two states in the central pacific case cannot be identical if dissolution hurts W arizona it helps utah yet we have the unusual spectacle of men speeding to washington from salt lake to align this state on the side JOAW of arizona and new mexico both of which states have declared through state officers their conviction that a separation of the central ad pacific from the southern pacific would give salt lake and ogden train loads of freight THE ONE HUNDRED PERCENT ROUTE this ahti ma map p clearly shows the one hundred percent per por cent route of the tha southern raci pacific over which and which at present are going the sout southern her n pacific instructs its agents to obtain routing wherever possible every bit of traffic passengers that could pass over the central pacific line through utah but which passes over tho the one hundred percent per cent ceaf route through arizona represents a distinct loss to this state through el paso and tucson WIT TH at the san francisco meeting on june 19 10 1922 of cf public service commissioners when the union pacific acquires the central pacific the union pacific Ari zonas representatives were smothered wr ittu telegrams sms stating that if the th southern will have the same incentive to route freight and passengers through utah pacific was divested of the central pacific the th vt vast tonnage now carried along the southern line would vanish nevada state journal lane june 23 1922 that the southern pacific now has for routing them through arizona and new kew 31 mexico exico now new mexico might lose los all of california freight if they dissolve the central and southern pacific I 1 said corporation commissioner hugh williams in discussing the tho the only point on which all parties to this controversy 0 V 11 r 9 y aro are agreed is action of the new mexican commission this state would lose by the deal it would that the present situation is unsatisfactory tho the S southern 0 U t b 0 rn pacific has loso lose all the california freight coming row now from the th central beatz 1 pacific which would go 1 to it the union pacific to the union santa ve fe N M now new mexican ju june 22 1921 1 attempted remedy by glittering promises is spending millions of dollars to develop its territory and will apply tho the chambers of commerce of arizona and new mexico might same forward looking policies to tho the central pacific well congratulate themselves that certain citizens of utah are arc if the ogden line is to compete on equal terms with the el paso line taking steps to insure that phoenix tucson and el paso will every link in the chain from san francisco through ogden and omaha to chicago must work with an eyo eye single to the promotion of this route continue to got get business which rightfully belongs to salt lake with the western western end of this route in the hands bands of a line which works and ogden actively against it the needed support is impossible and the supreme court of the united states so found A vote to uphold upheld the supreme courts decision is a vote vole if a firm in san francisco lias has a shipment for now york the southern for utah A vote to nullify it is a vote for arizona new mex alex pacific tries to send it via galveston and its steamship lines failing ico and texas this in effect is what the supreme court of the in that the southern pacific would try to move it via now orleans and united states determined for the decision deci eion said laid the proof was wao rail lines east cast or if that were impossible then via el paso and the rock ample that the sout southern heni route of the southern pacific was given island only in case they could not get it any other way would they route it through utah preference as a result of which the southern pacific got the is whole loaf whereas it a shipment via ogden gave them only y more freight and passenger business moving through utah means meana half a loaf more men employed for maintenance and operation larger shops and offices cog greater purchasing power in local territory more tourists efforts put forth to maintain tho the southern halfhearted half hearted more homes and more people to clothe and feed participation in affairs are a tremendous help to arizona and the union pacific is endeavoring to remind the people of utah now mexico and the intermountain country of its purposes policies and accomplishments it would bo be interesting to see a list of things the southern it is paradoxical that salt lake and el paso should both ho be working pacific has promised to do for utah sinco since the supreme courts decision for tho the southern Paci pacific ono of them is going to suffer a disadvantage of may 29 1922 to know what they have done would bo be equally which t enlightening i what the union pacific has done it will continue to do assist the communities along its lines to gj geow ow and prosper it is a matter of record that no line has ever come under the control of the union pacific which has not been improved in facilities and service to the public uc j i we shall furnish additional information from time to time union I 1 1 I I 1 VF A k ALMA pacific C b JR n C system StAMM VT SALT LAKE CITY |