| Show BIa 1116 AGAINST CLARKS ROAD Story of O Syndicates Effort to t Prevent the IIi Build Building ing mg g of the Line Linc to the thc Coast Const as Told Fold by Los LosIF LosI I IF Angeles Express Ii It If an force torce seek se k to 0 tUII ua while we Ve aro Are upon our vur own there might bo a n conflict otherwise however I do donot not 1101 any trouble T K t I Gibbon GILbon h of t time the law department of It the Pan Jedro Lou Los Mi railway lIway r out jut In th lIas of at Nevada where the tIme sage luge bruit has mum il been een In iii undisputed pos moms possession session Immemorial a struggle sic gle gb fur for sUP hau Iua suddenly the like hike of tJI hns imn not been known Iown the th In Itt the Iho early carly sixties when the time j Pacific was headed out ln with the Southern fiig from this timis end eul em In Us lbs at attempt tempt to tin checkmate c Its then t two systems the tha by each with time Ih millions of subsides au nut the time gun guilt of it e uh f Just lUst at the tho tit con Coil in what Is In several Important practically u n similar contest aft the rue 5 tl 1 II Ill Oil und and several other othor tru potent on tho lie one hand stud and the millions of t Senator W IV A Clark wn un the time other lher Hi lIt rn Union Pa rim rift sure are r now no combined the bite two t j tl lI Jointly In the time cf et effort fort furt t t It a W V A lark Clark ll States senator from from Mop Mon tuna given It out publicly that 1 what may mar he would build u a situ mil to connect southern California with Stilt Bait Lake City und Clark lark Is III gen Aun era 11 known no ns nn an Individual who wito Is In time the bl of making good con contract tract he may sot set himself out to per luer perform form forte I LOS IOS ANGELES Till TIlE OBJECT Haik hack In NW w York there has hams grown crown grownup up In iii years n it of capital Isis timid and financiers n u half a dozen In number who aba aro nyu gradually tightening the tile grip upon tho the land transportation of I tim h country so ito that they lIre aio cor tain tam wIthin u 1 very short to own In itt one line vail vaut solid system every rail call railroad road in the UnItes United States In this tills com coat nr ar aru John D 1 Rockefeller tho the head if f thi th Standard Oil company J Pierpont Morgan hanker banker and J 1 J lull Hill railroad d builder whose whORe genius first led the tho last transcontinental line hue built anti and later kept It above water stator when every r other othor road paralleling his own north and south fouth was submerged In the tho big panic that over overlook tool look th country five years ago With these men tire are associated Wm Win Harrl tahiti another r genius for tor absorption and atud divers and bankers whose con connection American and European havo have made them tho the financial giants of blue tho civilized world Senator W V A Clark was Induced to become Interested In the bite San Sati Pedro reMo Los s Salt Snit railway purely as asan II an atm Investment Such a n m line little tittle batIk for years yearn by the railroad men who Wilt figure out rates upon Ullon com cOIn commodities and tho e of ot their also who t peculate upon Ullon the tho cost of ot ties and other material immaterial necessary for tor hauling building operations Tho Time Idea however never n ft gut IM beyond that stage for tOI Wall Street lots has always had hul railroads enough so su tar nr as nh the tho vast Sast western des deserts de erts urt of the country are concerned und mini street la is not In the oC ot cling out Its IIi maglo unless thoro Is M at least l an equivalent In 11 sight thi the war had been fought and won antI and the time suddenly had hR become becom tho the scene Acene of ot the worlds future commercial development Then Wall street str et suddenly awoke with u Lu start and began to pull Itself together cr or erSI SI CLARKS S Senator Vf W A Clark Is l a man maim of ot tire tireless tIreless less energy and his huls financial mite ate have no limit within anything Ilku a 1 reasonable showing His tilt accumulations of ot capital Stave have recently been so RII vast as ns to place limbo them prop properly properly properly erly had hlll suddenly become a Il problem to their owner r ClerIc Clark when he Ime was In Los LoR Angeles about five nc years ago Informed an acquaintance that If It he lie could only obtain 3 I ir wr cent int c from his Investment such a II turn would more than please him What he ho meant to convey by br the tile was that his capital taunt must ho tue in i leek heck lest It multiply so iio rat rap rapIdly Idly hilly that Its ownership would be he a n bur burden burtlon burthen then den When time the th Terminal owners finally slims Ills disposed posed of ot n II controlling Interest In tn corporation time the people of ot Los Angeles began tn to realize ralIe fur for the first time line that the blue long bug inspected expected Ix competing line to lo Suit Salt Lake Inke mid thence EliOt East I was Wall to be ba become bacomo become come como a II reality went wen about his hili Is work with nn no n of If trumpets HP lie and mInd those thoc all with him first obtained their out of ot Salt Lake City Esst I alit then they thoy begun began railroad con ron on us I large scale rahe They asked no til bonus bonu nor anything else olo from truman troman any anyone one lIme and lust just t what tho blue details of their eastern toIlet outlet t the HOdey moun mountains tame really arc cannot be learned At Suit Salt Ity they will encounter the tho Union the Denver HIo Itie Grande Western c nd prospectivelY till tho Bur Burlington Burlington lington ms Y e rif All of lit these companies with the bitt th n perhaps III of ot the tho last named ur sr already owned ined or nr controlled by the St n lard n trust The Time to hp hi about aboul ready read to drop trop tub the sumac same maw but the th hanC s ore It If lime HIP facts are ever kni knit n that when Wall Vall street treet oh ob obtains tHins taint Ih 1 U D O 0 and amid Its allied lInes linos Mr Ir Hoik his hili associates n will tall fall belr I t some Rort or mom nr nf agreement In III the mw n w San Pedro Loi lo 1 bes and auth Salt alt lt I Lake rail call railway way will till willI K 1 found f und to be tie n a party of ot the blue th second pirt IS THRU TJi tIt u P I SElL Few pi pic really believe that Standard till cui III crowd Intend to extend the time lo In ic ftc t to Los Emmeh a n ri 1111 M would servo f sr the th double put pur purpose pose Inie of f k the flue Southern Pacific always vm it us besides le hl checkmating tho ito prop l new fleW Clark enterprise The Union Pa Pacific combi combination nation in ii 1 the Oregon Short Line coit connect with tIme the Sonia Santa Ve Fe Vent l lat nt mU Harst or thereabouts thereabout II thus thug bring ing It right Into southern California with feeders of ot UH Its own owl already here herc und uM no track to 10 construct nt at u a ubI big ex cx expense louse pense o cool beyond Into this territory Theme Theio rh r ID II no doubt but that time the Standard oil iii people are ur fully tully con oon convinced vinced that with their present tactics they will be able to scare ore oft Senator S Clark and his lila associates Their Idea ID It that railroad construction Is like Ilko every evory other oilier enterprise nowadays merely a scheme and that It If Hen Sen ator Clark Clork can call be he Induced to tn with commercial profit to In himself he IB Is cur tain to do so Thuy know nothing of ot Senator Clarks 3 per c nt observation made while ho lie was Wit In Log Angeles three years oarl ago their present teethes tactics not hot prove successful Lots Log Ango ngo leg lea Is IN titan then pretty curtain certain to have two new lIew transcontinental lines for tOI the time mat tor ter will then become u II nice rusco for tor trulbia In what t Is ha I now looked upon AH all an aim ex IX exceptionally fertile Held fIeld II I 1 The oregon Short Line which Is n a Union PacifIc feeder feed or began the r ent struggle by a n t tow few days ago ngo time tho Utah und and a n link In Utah projecting this way The fhe price j paid for tor the property Is wild to hue have been DOO Senator Clark stood ready scatty to ac uc lulle this property hud humid the Harriman s not embraced Its opportunity Tho Union Pacific had as In the bite original construction of the road roast und timid the lie money was probably largely in liquidation for tor ma mo l tonal und anti other oilier supplies furnished Time Tho Oregon Short Line had Stud a 1 op eli tion to purchase The transaction tak ing leg the thc stocks und anti bonds Involved nt lit their face fato value amounts to Time Thu road wa stocked for or 82 and bonded for tor or Hut Of ot these bonds bonda time Short Lino company already held for tor the rolling stock anal Iron used u cd on till thin roast road roal It J PI In Its determination to beat Senator Clarks road roud to tho the coast time the Oregon Short Lino II a court coup Every available empty cur car on ott tIme tile Utah lines lilies of or tho time Short Line has hils been buen placed In commission no au a receptacle for ties tle The Tho order Is that these cars shall bo bt b used In Iii gathering up UI ties tie wherever they timey have been distributed along the trucks Whether they thoy havo been distributed for till repair purposes purposed or not hot tinny they lire are to bo ba put into these them cars cams as rapidly as ble so they lucy may ma be shIpped d In largo on It a moments notice There Thero Is a n largo attached to tho time order und tumid It Is 18 helm beIng carried Into effect with the tho utmost dispatch This nut order Is III construed to mean that the time ties tiCK are aro going to be he used on the tite No o grade which the Nevada NOld hind of lice flee yesterday awarded to the Clark people Thin graIl grade Is la the key k y to the California situation anti It Is said time the Short Line Limie will occupy It first and ap op peal Its case calle If It the tie order toes slots not mean this lila then there therl is nothIng In III Indications Thoro Is no rush about any an other on time the rond The straightening out of or the time kinks between lie tween Salt Lake and tho time of the Gar lar Held field Stench track dan cnn nil nih be arrant nt at time the of the time thou lion gangs nut lInt the time other oilier Is IB urgent ent Delay D lay may nitty mn moan menn the tIme loss Ions of 01 the time grade So Bo lb realizing that Is la nine points Joints of the law hI tho thu syndi into cate Is going saIng to secure that grade nt ut nil hazards This Timis explains time the statement of a Short Line Lino official that That grade Is lit ours and we ice tire aro going to occupy It whenever WP ie get gd ready reldy The decision of time the Nevada land does not nob amount to anything There in li no news here regarding the struggle now on In Nevada T 10 E lib Ihli bun bon wired to P b O C White Whitemore more Utah representative for the facts acts In the tho contest now hew nn but up to noon ho lie lund liml received no Tuft advices He lie in us of the opinion that Mr is it awny from froma any of or the telegraph wires and can therefore not poM him him In a hurry Mr GIbbon Is linn In time the state statement ment that lint no mm matter who obtains this grade In the end this the San Pedro Los Angeles and Salt Lake railway Is rem tain to ho ito built and atul he ho does dark not any sanguinary conflict over the property In iii dispute |
