Show W h U Y if 7 es souther ou I 1 h er bi V I 1 ilia rl r W W al all 01 L e I 1 A e U UNTIL antil recently the literature issued in behalf of the southern Soud hern pacific retention of the cen central aral pacific I 1 in i n violation of the decision of the supreme court of the united states was silent as to the western pacific maps issued in support of A plain statement of facts show only the union and centra central P pacific railroads within the last few weeks the southern pacific has admitted the existence of the western pacific but has represented that the western pacific is too wee weak to be regarded seriously as a competitor of the central pacific such representations are misleading what the southern pacific would like to have the public believe 6 finally it must be apparent that the domination of this state and section by one transportation agency no matter how well intentioned that agency may be is a dangerous thing and menaces growth by minimizing or completely removing that competition of markets which is essential to development provo dumber chamber of commerce resolution Sep september tern 29 1922 the disruption of the existing system of the southern pacific corn com pany would afford opportunity for another system to develop a position of monopolistic and predominating strength state of petition of intervention intel bention to interstate commet ice ce commission october 28 1922 A strong effective transportation agency would be irreparably ruined in order to create a transportation monopoly for western america will this section permit the utter domination of one railroad system southern bulletin october 2 1922 A plain statement of facts with 3 maps and 9 exhibits to prevent the domination of this state and the intermountain see seo tion by any single transportation agency five reason why in the central pacific controversy issued b salt lake city chamber of commerce and commercial club november 8 1922 what the facts really are the real fact is that th the west western rn jacif c is a standard railroad which does now and always ill give zi e the central pacific formidable competition no matter who owns the central pacific during the world war the western P picric mcfie and central pacific were operated as a double track railroad each line carrying its it share of the traffic western pacific fast fi eight trains between the pacific coast and utah are scheduled foul fout I 1 ota s quicker it each direction than the central pacific the scenic limited of the western pacific providing through service between st louis and chicago and san feancisco Fian cisco is faster nule for mile than the overland limited on the central pacific the pacific has mor than one thousand mile of railroad A 41 its facilities compare favot favorably ably with other lines of mileage the western pacific now ha has an order in for 2000 new refrigerator cars the western pacific built co coil coal al cars in 1917 and more in 1920 these were used in coal and beet cirvice in idalio idaho and utah both bo th on and off 09 western pacific rails according to the railway age the western pacific is malting making in equity quily foi te venty ton gondolas equal to 1100 fifty ton cars and fifty ton stock cars at no point on the western entire line is the grade more than 1 10 10 it has the best grade of any line in western united states western pacific competitive activities according to western P official the western pacific except at timet when all roads wire issuing embargoes has never declined a shipment of freight ahe he western pacific has on anouk occasions detoured train load of fruit for the santa fe on account of washouts and other interruptions to traffic on that line t the western pacific has assisted in building up the livestock industry in nevada fully 98 of which is competitive with the central pacific and has equipped a liberal supply of stock cais with double decks for both sheep and lamb movement the western pacific mikes m ikes as good time on stock to eastern markets as the central pacific 0 the western pacific reduced the rite rate on copper bullion from garfield to san francisco which permitted it to brove through the panama canal the central pacific never met this rate utah business men have been t led to believe that this reduced rate was put in by the southern pacific which is not the case the western pacific also initiated reduced aratea on ore from california and nevada to rutih smelters the western pacific on its own initiative reduced coal rates to the pacific coast in an effort to develop a market for thousands of tone tons of utah coal in competition with coal from australia manchuria Man chuna and eng land from january 1st to october 1922 a period of only ten months the union pacific received from the western pacific at salt lake 1 loaded freight cars and delivered to the western pacific 2649 loads a total interchange of 10 cars these figures do not include the very substantial business which the western pacific interchanges with the D R G W at salt lake city the denser denver rio grande Ny western estern also has been omitted from the sou them thein Pich fies plain statement aa facts every summer the western pacific brings in to salt lake city each day 14 or 16 15 well filled passenger cars the scenic limited between st louis and chica and san francisco has observe observation tion and dining car service all tsway effi way at least fifty per cent of our passengers stop off at salt lake city says a passenger official of the western pacific ile the foregoing proves conclusively that the western pacific la is an important competitive element in transportation structure no matter who owns the central pacific the western pacific competition win continue and increase why should the thel southern pacific ic ignore such com campeti peti tion and service s VW AVIC U unless ni ess it be that to admit the western W estern a pacific v existence would spoil moil F the picture of domina va A tion of f this h state L C aa and ajla section by one railroad jt A ik tv NS we shall furnish from time to time t A 11 IV nion pacific all fic system f salt L lake e city 0 V f y US ji |