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Show Rumor Says U. P. After Western Pacific Lines With a view to making the Union Un-ion Pacific independent of the Southern Pacific In transcontinental transcontinen-tal business between San Francisco Francis-co and Los Angeles, Cal . It Is currently reported In local railroad rail-road circles I hat the I nlon Pacific is looking forward to friendly relations rela-tions with the Western Pacific with the ultimate Idea of gaining gain-ing control of that property. Local railroad officials point out that the Western Pacific has put a traveling freight and passenper agent In southern Idaho Which has always been considered strictly I'nlon Pacific territory and that despite this move on the part of the Western Pacific there Is but the friendliest relations re-lations existing between the two companies. Tho'.' conversant with the relations rela-tions between the I'nlon Pacific and the Southern Pacific state that at various times those relations rela-tions have appeared to be somewhat some-what strained which is also cited as additional support of a possible merger between the fnion Pacific and th Western Pacific In both the Western Pacific and the Rio Orande railroad circles the reported approaching merger Is common talk. oo |