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Show THE NEPHI. UTAH TIMES-NEW- Central Pacific Separation A Boon to Utah It This State Should Not Join Hands With Arizona to Detour Freight and Passengers via El Paso and Tucson. M i1 i ....( in B i It 99 SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES action of certain representative IF thecan be considered truly representative, Utah has climbed into Arizona's band wag-onA glance at the map shows that the interests of these two states in the Central Pacific Case cannot be identical. If dissolution hurts . 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 of Arizona and New Mexico, both of which states have declared through state officers their conviction that a separation of the Central Pacific from the Southern Pacific would give Salt Lake and Ogden train loads of freight and passengers which at present are El Paso and Tucson. WITNESSETH: going-throug- at Jl 5 f " vcsjl ' ROUTE" THE ONE HUNDRED This map clearly shows the "One Hundred Pei cent Route" of the Southern Pacific, over whkh the Southern Pacific instructs its agents to obtain routing wherever possible. Every bit of traffic that could pass over the Central Pacific line through Utah, but which passes over the "One Hundred Per-ceRoute" through Arizona, represents a distinct loss to this state. PER-CEN- T nt "At the San Francisco meeting on June 19, 1922, of Public Service Commissioners, Arizona's representatives were smothered with telegrams stating that if the Southern Pacific was divested of the Central Pacific the vast tonnage nrw carried along the southern line would vanish." (Nevada State Journal, June 23, 1922.) " 'New Mexico might lone all of California freight, if they dissolve the Central and Southern Pacific,' said Corporation Commissioner Hugh Williams in discuss'ng the action of the New Mexican Commission. 'This stnte would lose by the deal. It would lose all the California freight coming now from the Central Pacific which would go to the Union Pacific.'" (Santa Fe, N. M., New Mexican, June 22, 192?.) Chambers of Commerce of Arizona and New Mexico might well congratulate themselves that certain citizens of Utah are taking steps to insure that Phoenix, Tucson and El Paso will continue to get business which rightfully belongs to Salt Lake and Ogden. A vote to uphold lb Supreme Court's decision is a vote A vote to niif!5fy it is a vote for Arizona, New MexUtah. for ico and Texas. This, in effect, is what the Supreme Court of the United States determined, for the decision said the proof was ample that the southern route of the Southern Pacific was given preference as a resull of which the Southern Pacific got the "whole loaf," whereas a shipment via Ogden gave them only "half a loaf." put forth to maintain the Southern Pacific's half hearted participation in Utah's affairs are a tremendous help to Arizona and KfTarts New Mexico. It is D&radoxicaj that Salt Lake and El Paso should both be working for the Southern Pacific. One of them is going to suffer a disadvantage. Which f When the I nion Pacific acquires the Central Pacific the Union Pacific will have the same incentive to route freight and passengers through Utah that the Southern Pacific now has for routing them through Arizona and New Mexico. The only point on which all parties to this controversy are agreed is that the present situation is unsatisfactory. The Southern Pacific has attempted to remedy it by glittering promises. The Union Pacific is spending millions of dollars to develop its territory and will apply the same forward looking policies to the Central Pacific. If the Ogden line is to compete on equal terms with the El Paso Line, every link in the chain from San Francisco through Ogden and Omaha to Chicago, must work with an eye single to the promotion of this route. With the western end of this route in the hands of a line which works actively aiming it. the needed support is impossible and the Supreme Court of the United States so found. Jf a firm in San Francisco has a shipment for New York, the Southern Pacific tries to send it via Galveston and its steamship linos; failing in that, the Southern Pacific would try to move it via New Orleans and rail lines en.st. or if that were impossible, then via El Paso and the Rock Island, Only in esse they coul-.- n.t uA it :'nv other wav would they route i it through Utah. a More freight and passenger business moving through Utah means more men employed for maintenance and operation, larger shops and offices, greater purchasing power in local territory, more tourist-, more homes and more people to clothe and feed. The Union Pacific is endeavoring to remind the people of Utah and the Inln mountain country of its purposes, noSeies and accomplishment. It would be interesting to see n list of tilings the Southern Pacific has promised to do for Utah since the Supreme Court's decision of May 29, T.'J- -. To know what they have done would be equally enlightening. What the Union Pacific has done it will continue to the communities along its lines to grow 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. do---ass- ist We shall furnish additional information from time to time- 1 ..'... . .. i Union Pacific System SALT LAKE CITY It if ai |