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Show oo OGDEN ON A GREAT RAILROAD. What promises to be another boost J for Ogden is disclosed in a special dis-patch dis-patch from Washington to the Salt ' Lake Tribune It is stated that the j i Rockefeller interests, when the rail j roads go back to private ownership,! I plan to unite a number of roads into a great, transcontinental system, with Ogden as one of the nerve centers of the new organization. The dispatch is highly interesting, and is as follows: WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 30 Word has reached Washington that if the Each-Cummins railroad rail-road bill does not stand in the way, John D. Rockefeller and affiliated af-filiated capitalists will soon launch a plan for linking together existing railroads into a single transcontinental system to extend from both New York and Baltimore Balti-more to San Francisco by way of Ogden, Utah. The plan in contemplation is similar to a scheme once proposed pro-posed but never consummated by E H. Harriman. In brief, it is proposed pro-posed to link into on-- franconti-nental franconti-nental system a portion of the Pennsylvania lines and the New York Central with the Rock Island, Is-land, Union Pacific and Central Pacific in such a way as to connect con-nect New York and Ealtiraore with Pittsburg, Cleveland, Chicago, Chi-cago, Omaha, Ogden and San Francisco. Rockefeller interests, after surveying sur-veying 'the situation, are reported report-ed to have concluded that upon the return of thr railroads to their owners March 1 many uf the trunk line roads will find themselves hard pressed financially. finan-cially. By throwing an abundance abun-dance of capital back of a single trunk line system across the entire en-tire continent the Rockefeller interests in-terests (eel that adequate and reliable re-liable transportation from coast to coast ran be maintained over that one system, regardless of what happens to weaker and competing road Rockefeller is reported to have gone far enough with negotiations to be assured af adequate backing for his enterprise, and, unless the new rih oal la - nden uch a combination o( railroads impossible impossi-ble this consalidation would b permissible under the terms of the Panama canal act, which specifically specifi-cally permits the combinations of lines which arc extensions of each 1 other than which are not in competition. com-petition. Under the Cummins bill as passed no consolidation of railroads rail-roads can be made without the consent of the i r.'.nsportation board, but this leafure of the bill may be eliminated before the bill is reported by the conference com-mittee com-mittee which now has ii in hand. It is thought this feature of the bill was incorporated for trading purposes and Ht it will not be included in-cluded when lie bill finally becomes be-comes a law. Those who are familiar with the i railroad situation in Ogden know that i I high officials of the old Harriman j forces r peatedly have said that Ogden Og-den has a great future as a railroad point and that some day the Union Pacific and the old Central Pacific would be under one control with Og-den Og-den as the operating point. This latrst proposal evidently is but the reviving of the Harriman scheme to give to the country a strong and efficient road extending ex-tending from the Atlantic to the Pacific. |