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Show THE SALT LAKE TKJtBUNE, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER : A 4, 1922. t t I sate' . JSomiM.. . This State Should Not Join Hands With Arizona to Detour El Via Paso and Tucson Freight and Passengers ' ' - ' ' ' , . , i - ! , F THE action of certain representative citizens can .be consid-- . ered truly representative, Utah has climbed into Arizonas band "wagon. A 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 trainloads of freight and passengers which at present are going through El Paso and ' .Tucson. WITNESSETH: i SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES wwmwwwWmwmmmwx . . t - , At the San Francisco meeting on June 19,. 1922, of Public Service Commission- -' 'AriionaV representatives were smothered with telegrams stating that if the Southern Pacific Was divested of the Central Pacific, the vast . tonnagw now eaCried along the southern line would vanish. (Nevada State Journal, Juno 23, 1922.) New Mexico might lose all of .California a freight, if they dissolve the Central era, and Southern Pacific,' said Corporation Commissioner Hugh Williams in. discussing the This atate would lose by the deal. It would action of the New Mexican commission. 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, 1922L) the one xnnrosxa rtat cent aoxrra lent' i Chamber 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 i and Ogden. , V ' VA vote to uphold the Supreme Courts decision is a vote for, Utah. A vote to nullify it is a vote for Arizona, New Mexico 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 result of which the Southern , Pacific got the whole loaf, whereas a shipment via Ogden gave them only half a loaf ' Efforts put forth to maintain the Southern. Pacific's- half-hearted participation in Utahs affairs are a tremendous help to Arizona and New Mexico. .. It is paradoxical that Salt Lake and El Paso should both be working for the Southern Pacific. One of them is going to suffer a disadvantage. Which? When the Union 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 thaj the present situation is unsatisfactory. The South-- . cm 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 . . , 1 " - . - , . - . . f t ji 1 i forward-lookin- g policies to the Central Pacific. i 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 against It, the need' ed support is impossible and the Supreme Court of the .United y . States so found. If a firm in San Francisco has a shipment for New York, the Southern Pacific tries to send it via Galveston and its steamship lines failing in that, the Southern Pacific would try to move it via New Orleans and rail lines east,, or, if that were impossible, then via H Paso apd the Rock Island. Only in cai they could not get it any other, way would they route it through Utah. ' 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 tourists, more homes and more people fo clothe ' and feed. The Union pacific, is endeavoring to remind the people of Utah and the intermountain country of its purposes, policies and accomplishments. It would be interesting to see a list of things the Southern Pacific has promised to do for Utah since the Supreme Courts decision of May 29, 1922, TO know what they have done would be equally enlightening. . . . Thl of Oil 6outfcf Paelfle, errot whiel p eleariy ebowi the "On a Hundred tor Cent the Southern Poeifle inetructe it agent to obtain routing! wherever powtble. bl that couldI pail oyer tbe Oentral Pacific lino through Utah, but which pane ever the "Oae Huadred Per Celt Route" through Arties, repfeeenu s diiftlaet loie to thie itate. -- , , . . What the Union Pacific, has done it will continue to do assist 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. ' - v ' t , - . ' - We shall furnish additional information from time to time - . . x Union .Pacific' .'System1... -- - SALT LAKE CITY - v i |