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Show HEARINGS ON MERGER Union Pacific Made No Attempt to Open Poriland Gate New York, Feb. 17. In the continu-, continu-, alton of tho hearings of the govern-i govern-i ment s suit to dissolve the Union Pa-i Pa-i elflc merger today, John A. Munroe, general freight manager of tho com-jiany, com-jiany, was questioned by II. N. LoomU j cf counsel for the defendants with re-s-pect to the practicability ot the Union Pacific moving traffic through the Portland gateway to San Francisco. Fran-cisco. "The Union Pacific officials." said Mr. Munroe, "from time to time havo discussed the proposition of opening ' the Portlaud gateway to San Fran-I Fran-I Cisco, but they have always came to " the conclusion that It was lmprac-I lmprac-I ticablo and would be unprofitable to the Union Pacific. "In tho tlrst place, Portland was the same distance from Omaha as was San Francisco, and the question of delay de-lay in transferring freight and making mak-ing connections with the boats was considered There was only the San Francisco business to be secured by this means, as it was determined that Sacramento and Stockton promised to business for such a route. "Another thing that had to he considered con-sidered was the altitude1! of the Southern South-ern Pacific, which bad connections to San Francisco. Such a move cm tho port of the Union PaelQc would be considered hostile by the Southern Pacific, Pa-cific, and it could, and would, retaliate by deflecting from the Unlou Pacific that which the Lniou Pacific could not. get except through the influence of the Southern Pacific," |