Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-07-17 | Page 3 | Gives Details of R. R. Merger

GIVES DETAilS OF R R MERGER S P Plans Great Lakes to West Coast System TUCSON Ariz Jul 17 before citizens of ot at a dinner gh glien en In 11 his here President William Sproule ot the tho Southern Pacific P a ga e a 11 complete of tho of the Southern I Pacific and El 11 Paso and South South- Southwestern western ostern I alha a a and nd told how howIt howIt It would affect the future of Tuc- Tuc Tucson Tuc Tucson son ln and the southwest south It It the proposed consolidation ot the Southern Pacific and EI ElPaso and Southwestern I is sanc sanctioned bv the Interstate commerce commission and ond we C ht have e no doubt It will be ho he said Tuc son Tuc-son so will be placed in the enter ot a standard mal main line operating cut eist and west bet een the middle west and the coat and south to Mexico City In speaking of ot tire son reason hY v hythe the merger Is being pushed bv the Southern PacIfic Sproule explained that some sometime sometime time ago I a series ot e groupings of large the was s made by the Interstate commerce com com- commission commission mission and that the Southern the El Paso Pao and South South- Southwestern western estern and the Rock Island SS- SS sis were ere placed In one of ot thoe groups Confident that these groupings would some day be en- en enforced en enforced forced by special legislation atlon tho Southern Pacific company he 8 lIa has anticipated the move mo movement 0 ment and in order to accomplish the merger mers-er in a like business and satisfactory n was has entered Into negotiations ne with Ith the EI Paso and Southwestern South to do Another reason he said hv the Southern Pacific wants ants to go through with this merger Is be- be because be because cause It is now competing with railroads that have ve a 11 through line flom the Great lakes and middle estern cities to the Pacific coast Ve too want ant to be able to say that our lines e extend tend to Chicago from San Francisco and this and a possible merger wIth the l Rock Island S tem It possible for us to say that