| Show HEADQUARTERS IN SALT LAKE Union Pacific General Offices May ay Be e Moved Aloyed Here Within the Next Three Years Y calS A Union Depot From Irom a n omI source comes the tin welcome Intelligence that within with III tin th I next three years SnIt Salt The LaUe will In th very deed the railroad center of or the tin Intermountain region During the th pu put i few months montha Ink has beet been lay las luvIsh Ish spent In lii assorting that the Union Pacific the tho Pacific and tin th San Pedro loads would converge to i a 11 common center In this city and that thai Salt al Lake lako would woul 1 become the tho great distributing point or of the West Veat WestOn WestOn On top tOil of or this statement comes COlliN tl the plad tidings that us UR soon SOOIl us ru the thc man and Gould Interests per ted their planK and arrangements and nn the are aro In rood good running order th Union Pacific headquarters Il will he be transferred to Salt Lake Ial so eo that the tho of or the tho Oregon Short Line the Oregon Navigation com coni company PaY pany the tho and 11 till the parent union system can cnn bo ho o directed direct ell from a central point GEOGRAPHICAL A glance fiance at the tho map shows that geographically Salt Lake Ialo Is le to all In Intents Intents tents and purposes tho Ideal spot Chat wherein to locate locuto the th general of or orthe the Union lIlon t Pacific At present all 1111 af of affairs fairs of moment nip are operated from headquarters at nt Omaha on the banks bLinks of or the Missouri river and un at nt tho ex cx extreme extreme eastern end elul of or the big system This site elto under tinder thu tho now IIO order of or things Is III a growing sotiro of ot delay and In Inconvenience Inconvenience convenience the necessity of or moving w has hall been een under nailer serious consideration tion for some OnO time Salt Lake Is grow growing lag InK every day her hor dealing clearing house re ye tut nn for tor the thu week Just closed show liow an all liu rense aRO of per rl r cent over ovel gEnii and above abase the same week weck of or u a year ago nHo building Is III In pi progress ogress on all 11 sides new now enter enterprises ate are coming coining Into the State Stat and taken nil all In Iii all Salt BRit Lake City shows solid anti and nut steady stead signs of or progress that are second to none In tiny any 1111 city elty of or tho tIm Great West Her Iler steady and persistent glow growth th Is III attracting capital and drawing the tIme attention of ot throughout the country On the theother theother theother other hand hond Omaha as ono olio drum drama mr r said Caid In tho time Kenyan Kenyon on yesterday Is Js getting to be he a n dead un TILL The Thelast last census returns showed a falling railing off oft offin offin in the population and the city generally general generalIs Is conceded to have havo vo passed the zenith of ot her prosperity Hut But thu relative growth tot f tin tIme two cities In rn tho the punt past and nd In days daysI to t I rome come has no upon the I harriman Interests us lIS before stated It Ills Is ILL n It question of ut geography Tho rhO Un Union UnIon Union ion Pacific Interests now null extend from Portland In the northwest San Ian Francis Francisco co 0 In the th middle west and soon will tap Los Ios Angeles In the tho southwest const coast HUllO Butte In the north clear to Omaha thence by h Its allied lines lInell through to Chicago All the tho lines In this Inter Intermountain mountain region fillon converge In Utah and from the Junction hero here they tho ore are to ho bo directed so eo said salti a II gentleman this morning O 71 PASSED ASan Illustration of the comparative growth and business Iran transaction unction of or the tIme two cities Salt Lake Inke and amI Omaha It Is 11 only necessary to call attention to their weekly week bank bani clearings The former has Imas been going forward by hy leaps and bounds for some come time past while the tho latter shows ph OW a gradual and steady decline For Instance Salt Lake Ialo clearings this week show an Increase of at IOU per pel cent over the same week weel last year ear I the tho volume of at business transacted In I Omaha shows a II falling failing off oft of 9 94 per percent Percent cent It will be ho e readily seen lIeen that this timis sort nort of thing cannot go 10 on for nay great length of or until tIme the Utah metropolis will entirely her Omaha sister It Is further believed that the th zenith of or the has Imi been hen reached and passed while that oi ol oC the former Is 18 only beginning to make lv It Illie Itself self lie manifest IHO I AUTHORITATIVE A This rIis gentleman when shen It was wall that thIs his assertion of the tIme vision visionary to In li ary and was almost too good true suited stated with extreme that he Its knew what h hm hi was waiL about Ho lIe claimed that he had ha 1 b i J personally told by hy a representing o othe of Oh the Union Villon l Pacific In high ir mr Ills eles ls that such Kuch a move mOIo was ras under tun lUI un He lie told mo inc hi hl sad si l thoU that three tho the Union Pt 1 P chIle lt lit Omaha would In hr h moved loosed lImb Into a 11 handsome building In M Lake and amid that the Southern S the Pacific would also come t ti Salt Hall Lake Iak Ial which Would bo b the gateway of or the tho West Vest In III addition ho said SHIll that the tIme Oregon Short imort Line extension through to the tho coast const was not Hot being madu time for fun tun tim ml the line would lw he h built hullt II and that the present policy of o putting down light rails south of lIt Uvada was waMbeln being Inaugurated so that the grade could coult be e covered In III the tIme absence encl or if heavier ier mr Ir metal and also In order that t supplies sup sop supplieR plies could be bl rushed to the front for forthe tho the further construction of ot the thc road These e tight light rails rail would be 11 taken up liP at itt ata ata itta a later luter ditto date and heavy hean standard steel teI malls substituted before the tho line hue would 1 bo be O completed for tor through business i 1 TO A FINISH i ilIe He lIe further stated that the time Clark road was to bo be fought to a both In III the tIme local Held nod and In Wall street and other of the financial avenues of or time the Ka t Whether r Clark and his associates built or not mot he lie said Mid would not make u It particle of or Short SImon Line was going through Further urther l If Ir lurk Clark could be bought out this would bt II done ilone even esc If It cost rost millions TIme The Short Line Lino be built bulk through to Los Las Angeles Angelas and ami when completed If they were vere successful In freezing out nut the Son San Pedro ledro company It would have hove the time of or feet ert of ot bending oft off any other enter enterprise prise that hOI hind designs on building a I road rond through from Salt Lake to South California UNION PACIFIC l HOLDINGS Continuing he h said It i U hi a 11 well known fact that the tIme Union Pacific owns all 1111 but seventy shares of or the Oregon Origon Short Lint LInE within a II few fell shares of the tIme entire holdings of or time tho Oregon Oreon Navigation company compan thu balance of ot the time power on the time Southern Pacific and In all alia a control In III close upon ullon miles of ot road rou embraced In Inthe inthe the thc holdings As All tImings things are arenow arenow now not a it 1 move mOle Is made on any nn of or the time timelines lines west vest of or Omaha before permission Is first granted from the time Union Pacific and all nil freight matters malleIs if ot f Importance since the time first of tho timo th thear year ear have ben 1 to J A Monroe Munroe for Tor his hili sanction With tho ibm perfecting if or th policy of the time Union Pacific It ItH H K onlY onh natural that a central location IDeation Tor mr their general offices should bo ho 0 elected and that will be he done dono with he the result that Salt Lake luko will be ho hosen choRen UNION D POT TIme The Th News Is reliably Informed hat that tho the Union depot proposition will vili willIw Iw 10 it once more brought up at ut an early forerunner of ot time the cementing of ot he the community of or interests Idea In this th tate state A vigorous polIcy of ot straight ning out the tracks of ot the Harrl mn Anti ml Gould lines will also be bo pushed rIme Die gateway of or the thc West will remain Ipen and at time the same time he rates will Fill be rigorously maintained With theRe hese details perfected the tIme Harriman nd Goult systems In the time West Vest will dc pop loti into tat splendid dividend paying pa ln propositions impositions |
