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Show ' ' " "" Central Pacific Separation A Boon To Utah This State Should Not Join Hands with Arizona to Detour Freight and Passengers via El Paso and Tucson JF THE action of certain representative citizens can be considered truly representative, Utah has climbed into 1 Arizona's band wagon. A glance at the map shows that the interests of these two states in the Central Pacific case cannot be identical. If dissolution hurts Arizona it helps Utah. Yet we have the unusual spectacle of men speeding i to Washington from Salt Lake, to align this state on the ! side of Arizona and New Mexico, both of which states have declared through state officers their conviction that a separation of the Central Pacific from the Southern Pacific Pa-cific would give Salt Lake and Ogden trainloads of freight and passengers which at present are going through El J Vise) and Tucson. WITNESSETH: "At the Ran Francisco meetlnp on June 19. 1922, of Public Service Commissioners. Arizona's representatives were smothered with telegrams stating that if I lie Soul horn Pacific was divested of tho Central Pacific tho vast tonnage now carried along thn southern line would vanish." (Nevada State Journal, June 23, 1922.) "'New Mexico might lose all of California freight, if they dissolve the Central and Southern Pacific.' said Corporation Commissioner Hugh Williams in discussing the action ac-tion of the New Mexican commission. 'This state would loso by tho deal. It would lose all the California freight coming now from the Central Pacific which would go to the Union Pacific.'" (Santa Fe, N. M , New Mexican, June 22. 1922 ) Chambers of Commerce of Arizona and New Mexico Mex-ico might well congratulate themselves that certain citizens citi-zens of Utah are taking steps to insure that Phoenix, Tucson and El Paso will continue to get business which rightfully belongs to Salt Lake and Ogden. A vote to uphold the Supreme Court's decision is a vote for Utah. A vote to nullify it is a vote for Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. This, in effect, is what the Supreme Court of the United States determined, for the decision said the proof was ample that the southern route of the Southern Pacific was given preference as a result of which the Southern Pacific got the "whole loaf," whereas a shipment via Ogden gave them only "half a loaf." Efforts put forth to maintain the Southern Pacific's half-hearted participation partici-pation in Utah's af lairs are a tremendous help to Arizona and Xew Mexico. It is paradoxical that Salt Lake and El Paso should both be working for thi Southern Pacific. One of them is going to suffer a disadvantage. Whh'h .' When the Union Pacific acquires the Central Pacific the Union Pacific will have the same incentive to route freight and passengers through Utah that the Southern Pacific now has for routing them through Arizona and New Mexico. SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES Afc-ntl. . X If L VA vtk m T J 'THE ONE HUNDRED PER CENT ROUTE." This map clearly shows the "One Hundred Per Cent Route" of the Southern Pacifie, over which ihe Southern i'aciilc instructs its nts in obtain routings wherever possible Every bit of traffic that could pass over the t'entral Pacific lin through Utah, but which passes over the "One Hundred Per Cent Route." through Arizona represents a distinct loss to the state. The only noint on which all parties to this controversy are agreed is that the present situation is unsatisfactory. The Southern Pacific has attempted to remedy it by glittering promises. The Union Pacific is spending millions of dollars to develop its territory and will apply the same forward-looking policies poli-cies to the Central Pacific. If the Ogden line is to compete on equal terms with the El Paso Line, every ev-ery link in the chain from San Pranciseco, through Ogden and Omaha to Chicago, Chi-cago, must work with an eye single to the promotion of this route. With the western end of this route in the hands of a lino which works actively against it, the needed support is impossible and the Supreme Court of the United States so found. f ;i firm in San Francisco has a shipment for Xew York, the Southern Pacific Pa-cific tries to send it via Galveston and its steamship lines, failing in that, the Southern Pacific would try to move it via Xew Orleans and rail lines east, or if that were impossible, then via El Paso and the Koek Island. Only in case they could not get it any other way would they route it through Utah. More freight and passenger business moving through Utah means more men employed for maintenance and operation, larger shops and offices, greater great-er purchasing power in local territory, more tourists, more homes and more people to clothe and feed. The Union Pacific is endeavoring to remind the people ef Utah and the In- termountain country of its purposes, policies and accomplishments. It would be interesting to see a list of things the Southern Pacific has promised to do for Utah since the Supreme Court's decision of May 20. 1022. To know what thej have done would be equally enlightening. WHAT THE UNION PACIFIC HAS DONE IT WILL CONTINUE TO DOASSIST THE COMMUNITIES COM-MUNITIES ALONG ITS LINES TO GROW AND PROSPER. IT IS A MATTER OF RECORD THAT NO LINE HAS EVER COME UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE UNION PACIFIC WHICH HAS NOT BEEN IMPROVED IN FACILITIES AND SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC. We shall furnish additional information from time to time. UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM SALT LAKE CITY |