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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER. 26, 1922. 10 Prickett Tells Utah Position in Central Pacific Case Continued From the development of the Inter mountain lesion. The Panama ranal today control the traffic, and the carrier can not. in compliance with the provision of the act, pubhah rate from the Atlantic to Pacific coast porta sufficiently low to attract to them any great volume of each coet-to-eotraffic; therefore, tn these carrier must look toward the detelopment of the territory inland from the Pacific coast. A was stated recently by Mr. Kproule, president of the Southern Paclflo company, "the canal control the business todayh,.and l taking a great volume of the tqftnage between the Atlantic and Paclflo coasts so that wa have to look, a carrier, for the development of our businesa Inland.' . eoast-to-coa- st at Utah Well Located. I Fi,.ifht wa operated the Union Pacific or by interests partial to the Union Pacific the building of the W eatern Pacific. The reason whkh prompted the building of that railroad at a cost approximatingfiITaOflOOO'l, resulting in the present nancial flight of the Denver ft Rio Grande Western which guaranteed the Interest on ID WO. (ssi of Western Pacifio bonds, was the unfavorable attitude of the Harriman interests, when they were in control of the Southern Pacific, in (he Inter, hange of traffic between the Denver & Rio Grande and Southern, or Central Pacific, at ( igden,. Utah. Bearing on this point. I wisn to call attention to language appearing In the 1913 annual report oT the Denver & Rio Grande railroad to its stockholders, reading a a fol1 lows- "In their report for 1905 your director presented the situation as it then existed, and the following Is quoted from that re' port: 'For many years, while the line f railway between Ogden and San (Francisco waa uncontrolled bv Interests competitive with your system, your company enjoyed a satisfactory share of the traffic the reato and from California and one sons moving the management, between to four and fhso ears ago, acquire the Illo Grande Western, wa the closer relationship that would be established with the Kan Francis! o line of the Southern pat If Ic company, and the freer interrechange that it seemed probable wouldwere sult therefrom Subsequent events The control in a measure disappointing of Southern PacifJj, by Union Pacific in-- , restru tlons to led has tercsts unexpected distant drom the coal and iron fields This on interchange, Rnd more especially project is now under wav and already a In wavy of the imt ediments sum in excess of one million dollar has An application securing traffic In territory reached by been expended thereon lino. is now before this commission asking the Southern Pavlftc for authority to h.iifd a certain piece of track to reach Its coal fields These bluet Western Pacific Built. furnaces can b reathed by the Southern In connection "These consideration Pacific through Ogden In connection with with the rapid development of the rt electric lines, or In connection with the lai and Industrial inDenver & Rio Grande Western and I'nlon terest onagricultural 4h Pacific coast, and the Pacific system lines; and the Southern of commerce with the Philippines, Pacific la in position to provide rates China and Japan, let the management, of the products reluctantly, to Investigate the feasibility for the transportation thereof o the Pacific coast that are re- 'of an Independent line. In your Interest, munerative to It and still low enough so from either Salt lake City or Ogden, to that the tonnage to be moved will suc- San Francisco, with such branches and cessfully compete with that moving by laterals as might from tune to time be de- water through the Panama canal. sirable for the (lev elopmt nt of natural reThis Is only one example that may sources within reasonable distance of tbs follow the development of the interior main stem not In view, and with a territory bytn an independent railroad end this "With Interested providing rates to the end manifest obligation before it to advance that through its policy It youri Interests, the management assisted In be mav position to ll tate to our In jrroirjottng the plans ofths Western andjthippers where they shall find Pacific Railway company, a corporation markets for their products organized under the laws of the State of for the purpose of building a California Line Is Independent. ma'n line of railway from Kan Francisco to Lake Salt Oitv, with tertain proposed serves both a us which railroad Tnlike to the eat and west of us and is not branches or laterals. " While a to whether our products Concerned fully realizing the burden that rents upon your "company by the obligamove to the east or west, smh Independent line serving us onlv toward the west tions it assumed on account of W'estern g would not be In position through its Pacific, your directors are of the optnion, policy to dictate whether our explained In former report that In due of products should tneve east or whether tune the results from the operation of they should move west, or whether they that line, together with the earnings should move at aP, If their movement the Denver Itio Grande company on trafinterferes with that of some preferred fic to and from it will Justify the comcompetitor or interferes with Its general mitments that have been made. I also tall attention to testimony of policies If the Atock of the Central Pacific II J. IMudge, appearing tn transcript In, should be acquired by interests favorable 13 Per Cent Increasem Feight Rates to the Union Pacifio and its oj orating polli y be controlled by the Inlon Pacific, Ogden Gateway Closed. It would not then be in the same position commission of "Before the utilities as If controlled bv the Southern Pacific, Mudge, then preseident of the because if controlled by the latter It Utah. Mr ft Denver Rio stated Grande, stands as a competitor for Utah traffic The Denver A Itlo Grande for many Independently or anv line operating east of Utah and Invites the movement of years had an interx hange arrangement the Southern FatUic that wa satwith on traffic over its rails that originates Mr Jlarrlman obtained confts lines In Utah and also that traffic de- isfactory. of trol the Southern Padflc, closed the livered to Jt at Ogden by the Oregon gateway and the interchange busiShort Line, Union Pacific, Pen ver ft Bio Ogden ness of the Denver & Rio Grande fell Grande Western railroads and the electric dow f. n more That part I get lines operating within the state of Utah. from the than records and I can readily see the situation. how feel about They they Uintah Road Needed. did not want to be cut out from the I "The further development of the state OUlfortila business entlrelv . and at that f Utah requires the building of additional time they did pot have any business in' railroads, particularly a railroad serving the state on their own line to warrant tt the Uintah basin, In eastern Utah, which in going out of the through bus. ness They resource has large undeveloped not did not know about the development of wved by a railroad. It is confidently tills oal traffic no one knew that, and ftxpeoted that a line of railroad will be no one was nlllng to go into it. And Constructed tn the not distant future from they felt that thev vtere going to be I get a point In Utah en route through the Uin-ta- h this from some individual that they were basin to connect with the Moffat line going to bo absolutely ruined If they Such a line ha been were forced to end at Suit Lnke City or ... at Craig, Colo. upon application during ths Ogden and have no through traffic and surveyed and he year 1920 to the puhllc that seems to have feen the program ' early com mtekm of t tah It waa grant-- d The Denver ft Rio Gtande Western. 2 unties a certificate of convenience and necontinued Mr. Prickett, "now Interchange cessity to build from Pros oT"ditah, to considerable traffic with the Ventral or Control or Craig, Colorado Papers accompanying. Southern Pacific at Ogden Such application show the resource along lhSCentral Pacific by interests partial to ic In to Utah be as shown the the proposed line would undoubtedly be n an exhibit whkh I now ask to introfollowed by ft stflctkoig in the lnten hange duce In ev Idem e, of traffic Rt Ogden liefaeea .the Central I uneconomical to build Taclftc and Denver & ltio it would durh a line if it had no western outlet to the Pacific coast, and it is altogether Short Line Action Cited. .Improbable that such a line wou'd be "The restrictive interchange policy of built, or anv other railroad extended to Union Pacific system that I have reI'tah from the east, if the Central Pa- the cific wa controlled bv the Union Pa- ferred to was likewise adopted immediately after the acquisition of the Oregon cific or by Interests friendly to it. Short l.lne railroad by the Union Pacific. Then afterwards the Ogden gateUintah Resources Rich. way. both a to and passenger I The table which Mr. Prickett presented traffic was closed freight to the Denver & Rio showing the resource of the Uintah Grande on bus ncsx to and from Oregon basin, disclosed & surprising tonnage Short I,lne rai.road territory In The states Awaiting the extension of the Moffnt road of I'tah. Idaho, Montana Oregon, and from Provo to Craig. - The table fol- Wyoming, that could otherwise have been lowsn Unit handle! the Pacific. by I Oil shale in the Utah section of ths The of avenues of transportaclosing Uintah basin (crude oil)- t2,SO),ooo,OO0 tion Is not a desirable, condition for any barrels. eomrminltv. If the Ogden and Colorado ' Ammonia sulhpates 509, 000,000 tons. gatewavs were tnrown wide open, so that Gilsonite 150 01,uno tons tarilf originating on the Oregon Short ( Ulsterite 50 000 tons Une railroad could be moved through Uintah oil fields 1 C,7 80(1 000 tons, these gatewavs in connection with the j Vernal, coal fields 35.000 000,000 ton line foreign to the Union Pacific system Agricultural lands In Utah section of and cars of these foreign lines Uintah Basin; Irrigated land under crop. mitted 4o mow to Idaho to be were perUB9 175,000 acres Under ranal In IMS loaded through these junctions, returned then in 000 acres. Capable of irrigation all probabh.ty the gTain, fruit and vegeaOO 000 acres Dry farm land 250 000 table shlpp. r of Idaho be subwould not a res. Area 200 miles by 80 miles Forto yn-- serious car shortages and est area covers 1,978 400 acres. Will cut jetted financial loss a they have encountered 701 000 000 feet lumber, board measure in the past ' A further exhibit showing the resources, "If financial favorable to production and manufacturing of the the Union Pacific Interests sei ute control of the state also proved illuminating as Ind- stock of ihe Central "Pacific, then the icating the amount of tonnage that must vv este-- n Pacific timid be practically forebe moved annua'ly If Utah producers and closed from business originatmanufacturers are successfully to mar- ing at points handling on the Union Pacific In ket their products. W yoming end points on the Oregon Shot An illustration of what might happen Wyoming and' to another line connecting Utah with the lane In Idaho Montana, through the Salt Take gateway, east. In the event that the Central Pacific Oregon, when such business could la handled via IJt 4 entral Pacific another case of practicin' closing ui avenue of transports- - 'TJnh. as a manufacturing center, la strategically situated a having, from a transportation standpoint, an advantage over the Panama canal. It naturally follows that independent lines serving Utah from the west can provide rates for the transiortation of It ah products to the Pacific coast that are remunerative to them and still he low enough to with those provided for the transportation at the same product from the east to the Pacific coast en route through the Panama canal "A striking example is the fact that recently a fifteen million dollar corporation was formed dor the purpose of developing the iron and steel industry at the state of Utah. 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Sale starts Monday morning and we suggest you come early. g clever-4esigninga- nd HALF PRICE h: properties and the public that they serve. if financial Interests favorable to the Union Pacific did secure such control, their representative, together with those of the Union Pacifio system lines, could, through a restricted policy of furnishing line connecting equipment, through methods of solicitation and otherwise, Barriers Feared. greatly restrict the movement of traffic in connection with these electric line "The condition that I have Just to could be controlled bv the Union which they would otherwise handle In Pacific svstem line bv pla. ins barrier connection with the Southern Pacific m the way of fonhtthina Such a condisystem as now operated nVf shippers otherwHo that would tion would weakefi these electric Itnes lompel the movement of the traffic via Inanolally, decrease their efficiency in the friendly line of the Central Pm Ifio. operation and prove otherwise detrimen' Probability it will not be admittal to the publio interest. ted ?by offluals of the I nion Pacific but such fl bave tu Dominating Control Feared. referred to on jractico their part or t pon the "If financial Interests favorable to the 'part of their here thy Union Pacifio obtained control of the delirious of controlling xt routing of the Central Pacific the Union traffic originated on lines of the t nion slock 1 aclfte would then have a dominating Patino svstem their own rails is control a condition withbeyond that naturally would be detriI whkh have teen familiar and is a matter of common knowl- mental to the welfare of the publio in the state .of Idaho, Utah and Nevada. edge among men engaged In transporta, tion in U tah and Jdaho " The Unton Paciiic system would then Itn.-have through northern Vtah, southElectric Lines Element. ern Idaho and Oregon and Washington to Portland and Seattle, from Ogden. e n 4 t tc tv three electric lines Utah. Nevada and Califorwhich operate as a Txrotlnuous line, Utah,to through Los Angeles, and line favorable paralleling Union Pacific system line, a nia from It to Ogden, I'tah, through Utah, distance of about 2o0 miles, from Preston, Nevada and California to San Francisco, Idaho, to Payson, Utah, en route through Fresno and the Oregon line Ogden, Salt lake City and Provo, Utah U Is respectfully submitted that the namely, the Idaho Central, the BamberIn Its disposition of the apger Electric and the Salt Lake & Utah commission. herein, should by Its order prerailroads. These line serve considera- plication vent of financial any possible bly more than half the population of the Interests favorable opportunity to the Union Pacific state of Utah and interchange traffic svstem control of the Central under through Joint rates with the Pacific, acquiring' that It should grant the Southern Pacftlc system at Ogden, Utah Southern andPacific herein, They serve many industries and handle thereby leaving withapplication Utah and the requite a considerable volume of business mainder of the Intermountain region an originating at or destined to points on in di pendent arm of transportation upon the Pacific coast and "points in the east, which, from a railroad competitive standx as well as considerable local businesa. The electric lines have been a source of point, their future development is so dependent. great benefit to the traveling and ship- obviously "To the layman it would appear ping public, and It is suggested that the at least pending the promulgation ofthat, commission consider he effect that the commission s final plan of grouping the the acquisition of the control of Central Paof the United State Into, a cific stock by interests favorable to the railroads number of systems, as required limited Unioo Pacific might have upon these by the act, a denial of the Southern Pa-- 1 - !r svs-to- s . f Suits ce Sines 16, 18, 36 and 38 only. j Tree Trial of a Method That Any or Can U30 Without Discomfort i or Loss of Tima. We have a method for the centred of Asthma, and we wint you to try It at our expense. No matter whether your case Is of long standing or recent development, whether it Is present as Chronle Asthma or Hay Fever, you should end for a free trial of our method. 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Further face of this definite statewas under most of the pounded,sti'lIn were aimed at disclosing a questions being propounded by IL A. ment, in the committee, comproScandrett, attorney for the Union Pa- disagreement cific. In the main the interrogatories mised for the sake of anharmony. "Your statement is Insult to the had to do with theoretical and specuthem lative transportation problems, but the members of inthat committee, all of businesa circles in Salt when Mr. prominent questioning was enlivened Mr. Lake City'." retorted Prickett with Prickett flashed his resennnent over in- some display of anger. "There is not ferred reflection on the Salt Lake comenough money in the country to Influcontained In some ence mittee of twenty-fiv- e thoee men to sell out and to vote of the questions put to him by Mr. other than their conscience might dicScandrett. " and report tate Referring to the finding Mr. Scandrett quickly disclaimed any of the committee of twenty-fiv- e which intention of having cast or sought to cast Mr. prickett had Introduced In evidence reflections upon the members of the with the statement that the report rep- committee of and said he twenty-fivresented the 'unanimous opinion of the did not want to be represented In Salt members of that committee, Mr. Scan- take newspapers a having made any drett asked If It was not a fact there such attack. had been a division of sentiment In the It wa then that Mr. Prickett told committee, but that eventually, in order how tne governor, after the circulation to present a solid front, the m'norlty of false reports In Utah, had called tn had acquiesced In the view from the the members of the copimittee, and how majority, surrendered their own opinions each and every member of the Committee and Joined with the majority to make stated to the goverhor his per' In other words, sona)hadconclusions the report unanimoua reasons for and h1 said Jlr. Scandrett, "did not this comsuch conclusions, and It was disholding mittee sict to get a unanimous op nion closed In this that the way opinion of deJust as a convention act when a the the committee had been unanimoua feated candidate move to make Mr. lie fore Scandrett, dropping the subnomination of his successful' rival unaniject called attention to the fact that the mous? printed report as presented In evidence, "Absolutely not." replied Mr. Prickett carried names of onl, twentv-fou- r "The report of that committee repre- signers. the if this meant that He sents the judgment of- - each and every ne member Inquired of the committee had member who acted oq the committee. to sign There waa no minority opinion in the Mr. Prickett said that was not the fact. committee hn it concluded Its inves"Was not the man whose signature waa omitted Ross Beason?" Inquired Mr. tigation. Scandrett. It a then explained that David A. Investigation Exhaustive. after appo.ntment on thk commit"When that committee wa first or- Smith none of the hearings tee had ganised there was a d.fference of opin- and had attended taken no ipart in the vot and 75 memper cent of Its ion; probably consequently did not appear. bers starting out In the belief that the hisMr.name Wood, attorney tfor the Southern Central Pacific should be Joined wlthj the Union Pacific, but when the com (Contused ea Following cifle application 1 Cross-Examine- d. n, Confused Thinking Goes with confused impressions of the senses.; clearly, must fyou SEE CLEARLY . Get the facts about Y.oOr eyes. Tp-thin- k e, re-fu- I Ftf) f (ID (PUD CAUL (COD. 53? Dr. T).C. James ITlqr, II E.2ND. SOUTH - WALKER DANK SALT LAKE CITY DLDCL |