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Show I CARRY FIGHT j I TO WASHINGTON Tift I I Mayor and Others Leave Tonight to Intervene in C. P. Case Mayor I rank Francis, James H De-Yino. De-Yino. James Bronnan and C. K Hol- llngaworth, will leave tonight at 925 o'clock for Washington, where they win take up the fight for Ogden and! northern Utah by Becking to aid ihej grouping of the Union Pacific syatem i ind the Central Pacific at the hearing; ti2 to be hPid before the Interstate com merce commission which opens next Tuesday morning. Mayor PranMs w!U represent Ogden City, as the chief Intervener In I he, move of the Southern Pacific to retain! control of the Central I'acitl- lines and will take up the cudgel not alone fori gden. but Brigham, Logan mid other Utah cities which believe they will benefit through the grouping of the Central Pacific with the Union Pa-; Pa-; ij.f . ific. Mr. DeVine will represent commercial commer-cial interests or Ogden; Mr. LJrennan. j the Ogden chamber of commerce, and Mr. Hollingsworth, who Is the Ideal ultornoy tor the I nloh Pacific will, i represent that system. The delega-: Hon will be gone abutil 1" duys EXPECTS niM l J i TO OGDELS Mayor Francis has been given the 1 frupport of the northern Utah cities in, resolutions passed by commissioners i n ' the grouping fight and will be one tt 1 the, most Impoitant figures at the hearnig. "Great good shouM come t. ' 'gd-n 1 If the Union Pacific la grouped with: the Central Pacific,' Mayor Urancl-Euld Urancl-Euld todav. "and the oity should great-J ly benelit.flrst in th" building up of the transcontinental rail highway i which was firsflo link the east with I the west. 1 "In the building up of the great transcontinental route. Ogden mustal- bo build and grow and will become much more important railroad centi i An advancement will i- broughl to the community which can scarcel) now be measured. i "If the .spirit of the supreme court 1 of the United stales followed there !i can be no qu stion that eventually the Central Pacific will become the- property prop-erty of the Union Pacific and in that event Ugden will become the operating operat-ing railroad center of the entire l nion Pacific system. "At the time of lli. control of the Central Pacific trj the Harrlman interests in-terests plans hail b n niadt- foi larger larg-er terminal facilities In usden and for other very extenslvi improvements which have nover materialized. but j which under Union Pacific direction ehould be revived This Includes the doubling of the capacity or the railroad rail-road shops, perhaps the building "i B lurge foundry for the manufacture of car wheels and the- instruction of of- flee and other buildings. "It is my opinion that Ogden will never come into Its own as a railroad point until the Union Pacific and the ! Central Pacific are operated as one evstem. at least not until the control of the Central i'uciMc i- in the hands of Interests solely d voted t" the building build-ing up of this transcontinental route. TRAFFIC DEFLECTED. "At present, according to the supreme su-preme court findings', the route is discriminated dis-criminated against by the houtherti ; Pacific .which has deflected a con siderable percentage of the traffic , which naturally belongs to this rail highway. "From a Southern Pacific standpoint stand-point this Is undouotidl good railroading rail-roading to divert all traffic possible to ."' 100 per cent Southern Pacific route which Is the Sunset, through 101 Paso ' 1 and Galveston, but such a policy Is highly injurious to the Central Pacific Pa-cific and all places depending, in any measure, upon the Central Pacific as a railroad. "And Ogden Is one of the most important im-portant of these places and Is perhaps more deeply concerned than any othr city Involved in this controversy. "In 1912 arrangements had been made for divorce of the Central Pacific from the Southern Pacific and at that time Southern Pacific officials, Including Includ-ing a number who are now adverse to the change, pointed out that the segregation seg-regation was not only feasible. but would work great benefits to all interests in-terests concerned. If the segregation was feasible in 1912 there is no rea- son why it cannot be succefsf ully ac-Icomplished ac-Icomplished today." During the absence of Mayor Frnn-'cls Frnn-'cls In the east. Commissioner Arthur F Lxirson will act as mayor pro tern, 'it was announced today. |