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Show I WESTERN PACIFIC IS BEING ABSORBED. When W. R. Scott, federal manager of the Southern Pacific and Western Pacific railroads, announced his reorganization re-organization of the roads on Monday last, ,he indicated that the Western II iJaoiuc is to Do adsorbed by tno south-I south-I em Pacific, which is a move for better utility. ' The Western Pacific should be segregated. seg-regated. From Wells to Salt Lake City, the road should be treated as a branch of the Southern Pacific, and the main line should begin at Winne-mucca, Winne-mucca, Nevada, and extend to Oro-ville, Oro-ville, Cal. That part of the road between be-tween Winnemucca and Wells should be under the jurisdiction of B. A. Campbell, superintendent of the Salt Lake division of the Southern Pacific and be operated as part of a double I track, handling eastbound traffic. I The Western Pacific has been a Ios-I Ios-I ing Investment from the day the GouldB pledged the credit of the Den-I Den-I ver & Rio Grande (o its construction. The Western Pacific was built to gratify grat-ify the ambition of George Gould who aimed to operate an all-Gould system from ocean to ocean. It Is 117 miles t longer than the Southern Pacific from Ogden to San Francisco and, now that railroads are being operated on merit, should be cut up and made to fit the purnoso of a higher efficiency. R - rtrv- |