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Show TO THE INI ERMOUN TAIN STATES mm I B ! . m fsfw J s maP illustrates the quotation from the IH decision of the Supreme Court of the United I ryf " syAw ) States in the case divorcing the Central H V' ' f( acil'c rom the SoutnerTl Pacific. H I I E ' 1 x' Tbe extract from the Supreme Court decision follows: "Tht A Jv I I proof is ample that the policy of the Southern Pacific System H has been to favor transportation on its line by securing for ifferT i itself, whenever practicable the carriage of freight which VPpa.. J would normally move eastward or westward over 'the shorter H 3n'n iitif Central Pacific Railroad and its connection!, for it Wt I ' ' i TilTi i mm i i , -- ujiLiju.jji-u-.. i ' own much longer and wholly owned southern route." m. mmm The incentive held out to the shipper to and from I East Coast points and to and from West Coast I I points is to route freight by water to and from I I Galveston and New Orleans to gain the 100 I haul for the Southern Pacific and its connecting I steamship line. The effect of this, quite naturally, I I is to eliminate the haul through this state. This I is a graphic illustration of what Utah business in- I terests may expect to receive from any railroad I whose greatest interest lies outside the state. I Nevada and Wyoming are quite as much con- I cerned in this phase of the railroad situation of I today as is Utah. I The request for a free side-trip privilege from Ogden to Salt I Lake was repeatedly denied by the Southern Pacific System I until the Union Pacific announced the restoration of this privi- I lege. The Union Pacific HAS ASSUMED THE ENTIRE I BURDEN OF THIS SIDE TRIP, I |