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Show cific of the benefits ; of that traffic if it had followed its natural nat-ural flow through the Ogden or Utah gateway, and WHEREAS, the Southern Pacific Pa-cific Company i3 doing what it can to obtain the popular support sup-port ,pf the people of the states interested in the matter in its endeavors to have this decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in effect nullified so as to permit it to continue to operate the Central Pacific Railway.' Rail-way.' THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED RE-SOLVED by the Midvale Commercial' Com-mercial' Club of Midvale, Utah: 1. That it is our opinon that the resources of the State of Utah would better be developed and the business interests of this State will better be served by the Union Pacific acquiring the Central Pacific, and 2. That it is the opinion of this Association that the decision decis-ion of the Supreme Court of the United States should be upheld by every citizen of the United States and every association thereof , and that nothing should be done which would in any way nullify the decision of the highest high-est court of our land, even in effect, ef-fect, and 3- That we transmit a copy, of this resolution to our representatives repre-sentatives and senators in Congress, Con-gress, as well as other State and Federal representatives. Salt Lake County Advocate SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COMMERCIAL CLUB At a meeting of the Midvale Commercial Club held Wednesday Wednes-day night representatives of the Union Pacific railroad officials were present and stated their position in the controversy between be-tween their company and the Southern Pacific System. On page five of this issue will be found a statement from the U. P. Company which should interest inter-est every citizen of this community commun-ity .At the conclusion of the meeting the following resolution was passed and put on the records re-cords of the club: WHEREAS, the MIDVALE COOMMERCIAL CLUB is interested inter-ested in the development of the State of Utah as well as the City of Midvale, Utah, and WHEREAS, it has, through many years of business with the Union Pacific System, become satisfied that the management of that System is likewise in-teretsed in-teretsed in the development of this section of our country, and WHEREAS, it is fully convinced con-vinced that the Union Pacific would be materially assisted in its efforts to promote the welfare wel-fare of this State if the Central Pacific were seggregated from the Southern Pacfic as decreed by the Supreme Court of the United States in an opinion rendered ren-dered by that Court in May last on the ground that the Southern P.ncfic Company has, by routing traffic over its line through El Paso to Galveston and New Orleans, Or-leans, deprived the Central Pa- |
