Show DENVER VS SALT LAKE the tile effects odthe of the D it G B R it on the trade of f the two towns it appears from the denver papers that fears have been expressed that the new pow road which connects colorado with utah and which will soon become a great highway for commercial competition between salt lake luke and denver will show the odds largely in favor of salt lake tto to the detriment of denver such forebodings are based upon the assumption that the denver rio grande at the earliest opportunity will form a combination with the burlington missouri for the through shipment of freight to salt lake at a rate that will make con sign ments to that city cheaper than to an any y point between salt lake and gunnison city also that it is within the power and may become the policy of the company to place aice lat goots goods from denver to salt lake at the game same rates and with the same purpose in in view view the latter position however is scirce scarcely a ly tenable iu in the view odthe of the denver tribune because denver has nothing that salt lake cannot obtain as cheap as in the eastern markets main making 9 allowance 1 for ta the it far on oil freight in in case of sharp competition this whole argument is answered according to the views oft enver merchants that there is one thing only which the denver rio grande can do in the tile interest of salt lake and that is to open up the means of a fair competition between the two cities for the trade of western and southwestern colorado at present this trade is too small for a division probably a few years hence there will be enough for both any other movement on the part of the denver b rio grande can be checkmated check mated at once b by y the L union pacific and as much to the benefit of denver as to salt lake this we have reasons to believe ha having vi hig been informed in the course of a casual conversation with a prominent U P official in ogden that the U P can afford to carry freight as cheap as anybody even for for nothing this latter however 13 s undoubtedly more for effect than dorany for any practical purpose for as long as men are human and ral railroad directors aro are men men railroads will continue makin making g as mue much it money as they can so somewhat in what in unison with most other mundane institutions A reporter of interviewed several merchants on this freight business thus air C S morey of the chicago firm of sprague warner co 00 whose branch house in denver is probably the largest in the west was asked for his opinion concerning the probability of a ahr through ol 01 u h freight right combination when the following r remarks were made by him awin which ich may wel well 1 betoken betaken bo taken aa as the exponent of the views of denver commercial circles on the matter 1 there is not the least danger in t the he world of euch a thing the me moment ment such a movement is made it will be headed off by the union pacific while it always contends for tariff prices it would not allow the denver fe kio RIO grande or any other competitor to haul roods goods cheaper than itself so you see sea that there would bo be nothing nothing gained the tho rate rates thus being 11 19 made tado equal you can see that in any event each road would pet get only so much patronage but could nota not the denver rio grande maintain a low rate of freight whether with or without competition in favor of salt lake only for the sake of the small business within the border of colorado west of gunnison salt lake will have the utah trade anyway with euch such a policy of discrimination 10 a salt lake could not come as far aas east t aa 03 gunnison city because tile south park division of the union pacific would come in in danvers Den vers behalf aud and then it would be an easy matter to la lay competing lines for the trade of tributary tributary sections if such a condition of things should become necessary suppose the denver rio grande should discriminate in favor of salt lake for that western trade it is is so email small as I 1 said before that it would not be worth th tho e undertaking with an increase of po population ul atlon such ae as we may reason reasonably aby anticipate within the next few years the tive trade mar may be large enough for a division vision which can be ma manewith made with profit profi tto to both and by that time it may be regarded as certain that the union pacific will tap the country with competing petin gb branches ranches so you can that the ilio grande hae has nothing to gain by playing into the bands hands of salt lake while the road will not be of any special benefit to denver for some time in except in the way of general dl larmo development barm lp in ent it cannot do us any fc |