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Show " A BOOKTO UTAH This State Should Not Join Hands with Arizona toDe- tour Freight and Passengers via El Paso and Tucson. I If the action of certain representative citizens can be con- SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES I ' sidered truly representative, Utah has climbed into Arizo- 7-- ' S, 1 na's band wagon. ..A glance at the map shows that the in- ff " ' terests of these two states in the Central Pacific Case Tw "'X 'TzT CANNOT BE IDENTICAL. If dissolution hurts Arizona 4mS5? it helps Utah. Yet we have the unusual spectacle of men V wm ' jr IS irJ Y City f n speeding to Washington from Salt Lake, to align this state au iJsM" 5 I on the side of Arizona and New Mexico, both of which L-l tJI states have declared through state officials their convic- k j vov waKxi?7 3r&'"- tion that a separation of the Central Pacific from the Sou- NkA "lnn" c thern Pacific would give Salt Lake and Ogden train loads ,. . s. -.,,, , . , , ' . THE OXE HUNDRED PER CENT ROUTE Of freight and passengers Which at present are going This map clearly shows the "One Hundred Percent Route of the Southern Pacific, over which tle Southern Pacific instructs its agents to obtain routing wherever possible. Every bit of traffic tVivnno-Vi TT1 Poon onrl Tiipcnn WTTNlWTW at could Pass over the Central Pacific line through Utah, but which passes over the "One tnrOUgn ihl raSO ana iUCSOll. vVIUNbbiIM. Hundred Per-cent Route" through Arizona, represents a distinct loss to this state. -At the San Francisco meeting on June 19, 1922, of Public Service Com- wrhen the Unlon Paciflc llcquires the cei p,. Unlon p,, missioners, Arizona's representatives were smothered with telegrams stat- the incejUlve to routc passengcrs through Utah that ing that if the Southern Pacific was divested of the Central Pacific the vast the 8outhcrn Paclflc now has for anting Arizona and? New tonnage now carried along the southern line would vanish." Nevada State Mexico Journal, June 23, 1922.) ' H The only point on which all parties to this controversy are agreed is that I "New Mexico might lose all of California freight,, if they dissolve the Cen- tne present situation is unsatisfactory. The Southern Paciflc has attempted B tral and Southern Paciflc, said Corporation Commissioner Hugh Williams t0 remedy it by glittering promises. The Union Paciflc is spending millions I i in discussing the action of the New Mexican Commission. 'This state would f dollars to develop its territory and will apply the same forward-flooking i lose by the deal. It would nose all the California freight coming now from policies to the Union Paciflc. H the Central Paciflc which would go to the Union Paciflc" Santa Fe New 1 n ,,.-, ,no I tQe Ogden line is to compete on equal terms with the HI Paso Line, every fg Mexican, June 22, 1922. - 9 link in the chain from San Francisco through Ogden and Omaha to Chicago, 3 must work with an eye single to the promotion of this routa. With the west- Chambers of Commerce of Arizona and New Mexico might well congratulate en(J Qf m& rQut6 Jn the handg of a n8 wQrka actlTely agalDst lt themselves that certain citizens of Utah are taking steps to Insure that the needed, support is imp0ssible and the Supreme Court of the United Pheonix, Tucson and El Paso will continue to get business which rightfully States so found belongs to Salt Lake and Ogden If a firm in San Francisco has a shipment for New York, the Southern Pacific Paci-fic tries to send it via Galveston and its steamship lines; falling in that, the 8 A vote to uphold the Supreme Court decision is a vote for Utah. A vote to Southern Pacific would try to move it via. New Orleans and rail lines east, nullify ,it Is a vote for Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. This, in effect, is i cr if that were impossible, then via El Paso and the Rock Island. Only In what the Supreme Court of the United States determined, for the decision e tli".v ild not get it any other way would they route It through Utah. said the proof was ample that the southern route of the Southern Pncific was ft More fro-.;ht and passenger business moving through Utah means more men H 'Ttn preference as a result cf which the Southern Pecifc pot the "whole I j employed for maintenance and operation, larger shops and offices, greater a loaf," whereas a shipment via Ogden gave them only "half a loaf." purchasing power in local territory, more touriBts, more homes and1 more people to clothe and feed. Efforts put forth to maintain the Southern Pacific's half-hearted particlpa- . ... . . . , . . ., . , The Union Paciflc is endeavoring to remind the people of Utah and the tion in Utah s affairs are tremendous help to Arizona and New Mexico. Intermountain country of its purposes, policies and accomplishments. It would be interesting to see a list of things the Southern Pacific has prom-It prom-It is paradoxical that Salt Lake and El Paso should both be working for ised to do for Utah since tho Supreme Court's decision of May 29, 1922. To the Southern Paciflc. One of them is going to suffer a disadvantage. Which? they have done wouW What the Union Pacific has done it will continue to do assist the communities I 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 faci-lities and service to the public. We shall furnish additional information from time to time. 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