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Show I DARK PAGE IN RAILROAD HISTORY. In arguing in favor ot the dissolution dissolu-tion of the Central Pacific and .South ern Pacific. Solicitor General Heck told the United States supreme court i hat when C. P. Huntington and his three associates leased the Central Pacific to the Southern Pacific, ono of the darkest pages in American rail road history was written. He charged i hat when the Huntington group had unloaded stock in the Central Pat IfJc to foreigners, the road was leased to i he Southern Pacific and made to serve the purposes of the Sunset Koute. For years after the completion ol i he Southern Pacific, the Central Pa if ic was neglected and failed to show any life until E. H Harriman became a power in Southern Pacific affairs. Since then the railroad situation has hanged. The Western Pacific and tho San Pedro lines have been built, offer n: new outlets for the traffic which reaches Ogden No longer Is the Central Pacific the one road over which direct connection is made with California. In the old days It was a mistak" for lb' L'overnmfni to have allowed the Central Pacific to be merged with j the Southern Pacific, as the control of the Central Pacific by the Sunset Route allowed the Southern Pacific to force the greater pari of the traffic which should have moved through (g deu to take the southern route. This diverting of business undoubtedly injured in-jured Ogden as a railroad gateway anil held back the development of the Cen Mai Pacific Of late years H broader broad-er policy has been pursued by the Southern Pacific management, i no |