Show TALK IN RAILWAY CIRCLES union pacific oregon short une consolidation the meetings in salt lake and what may come of them many changes may be the result there will le a meeting of union pacific officials at salt lake today and a meeting ot the oregon short line at the name place on thursday which tapa beadi the omaha bee to publish the following union pacific officials are eagerly watching for an enlargement of the system which they feel sure will take place within ne fortnight the annual meeting of the oregon short line will be held IP salt lake City next and it is freely predicted that t will be the last annual meeting of that nde pendent corporation to be held the fact that the union pacific officials will be in attendance at the annual meeting 0 th e oregon short line has very naturally given rise to the report that the articles of agreement tor the absorption 0 eliat system by the anlon pacific will bo signed at this meeting among the union pacific officials who will attend tho short line meeting are general consul aln alow S pierce director T jefferson cooledge alfeo a director ot the short line president horace G burt and general manager edward whether the short line will be op from omaha ns formerly Is an unsettled question it Is said that this matter Is one of the mooted points to be settled before the absorption of the old branch by the parent line takes place should the management and operation of the short line be moved back to union pacific headquarters more men will elul employment abboth the union headquarters and the union pacific in this city if this should not ba done the control of the short line would still mean an increase of work here though division headquarters for the short line would probably be maintained in salt lake city the absorption of the Ju lesburg branch of the union pacific denver gulf road Is another desideratum that is expected to materialize at an early date the transfer did not take place on oct 1 as was previously expected on account of intricacies of the financial and legal status 0 the problem but it Is anticipated by those who ought to know eliat the union pacific will be running its train between omaha arid denver over its own rails within CO days the bee says predictions are again rife of an early amalgamation ga mation or comb lna ion between the union pacific and he oregon short line which waa originally built as its principal branch ken when the segregation re of the anlou pacific system was completed t was plain that rall loads so identified in interests must sooner or later be brought together again in some to m the alliance may yet be hindered or deferred but it Is sure to come aud that before many years the entire party of officials and stockholders went through ogden last night of local railroad men are that there will be a consolidation it so the result of it will be the return to ogden cf a large number of employed emp loyes who have been compelled to leslae in salt lake since the segregation another question which the meetings have brought up la the matter ot the U P ax caden they still have their grouhal gro which was reserved tor the shops and L P men seem to think that work wall begin almost am mediately after the annual meeting |