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Show HUMS' TREATY WITH RAILROADS That the application of the "Safety First" principle as maintained on the line of the Southern Pacific railroad between Ogdcn and the Sierra Nevada mountains dates back to the days of the construction of the Central Pacific, Pa-cific, is a statement that appears in the latest issue of "The Bulletin." Continuing the author of the statement reviews the following interesting inter-esting bit of western railroad history: "In the early eighties a treaty was entered into between the railroad company and various vari-ous tribes of Indians, under the terms of which i the red men. even when on the warpath, rigorously rigor-ously abstained from molesting our passengers passen-gers or employes. The attention of the United States senate was called to this in 1888, when Attorney Creed Haymond referred to it in an argument before the senate committee on Pacific Pa-cific railroads in the following language: " 'The situation in like respect was not less dangerous between the Sierra and Ogdcn. That country was infested with hostile Indian tribes, constantly at wnr with the whiles. While this danger existed and had to be met, it was not by force of arms, but by a treaty made between the Central Pacific company nnd the Indian tribes hetween the Sierra and Ogdcn, which has on each side been most faithfully faith-fully maintaind from that day to this. " 'Many times since the construction of the road these tribes have been at war with the United States. In no single instance have they violated that solemn treaty or injured a man connected with the railroad or a passenger i ... tu. :n r .k. UUII1C UUtl 113 IIU1113. &tl 11111111.111.1. vt lllt- trcaty was felt long years afterward, and still is felt, on the Southern Pacific railroad lines. "The same obligations were impliedly entered en-tered into between the Apache Indians, the wildest tribe known to the continent, and to the tailroad company. Although that tribe has carried murder and arson over the territories of New Mexico and Arizona and the northern stales of Mexico, in no single instance has it interfered wilh the trains of the Southern Pacific, Pa-cific, its passengers or section men, though repeatedly re-peatedly war parties have crossed and re-crossed re-crossed the track.' "Even to this day, under the terms of a treaty with the Piutcs made in 1882, members of lhat tribe arc entitled to free transportation transporta-tion in the stale of Nevada." |