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VOL. XVIII

OCTOBER, 1916

THE WESTERN PACIFIC*

No. 4

WARREN OLNEY, JR.

The Western Pacific Railroad is of some little importance in this community. It has recently been much in the newspapers. It is entering upon a new period in its history, with new owners and new management and new hopes. I have thought the Club might be interested in a brief review of its vicissitudes up to this time and of its present condition and outlook.

The history of the Western Pacific really goes back to the acquisition of the Southern Pacific by Mr. E. H. Harriman. The situation at that time was this:

Mr. Harriman had a few years before acquired the Union Pacific. Mr. George J. Gould had for a number of years controlled the Denver and Rio Grande. Both these last mentioned lines crossed the Rocky Mountains and had their Western terminals at Ogden. Both were largely dependent on through business and were in direct competition for the same through business. Both were dependent for direct entrance into San Francisco and Northern California upon the same connection, namely, the old Central Pacific line from Ogden to San Francisco, which for many years had been and still is owned and operated by the Southern Pacific. This line was the only line into San Francisco and Northern California except from the far South and the far North. The importance of it as a connection to both of the Rocky Mountain roads was very great. If it chose to do so it could cut off from one or the other a very

* A paper read before the Berkeley Club. Mr. Olney was one of the receivers of the Western Pacific appointed by the courts.

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