Holmes, Artemas H.:

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ARGUMENT SUBMITTED ON BEHALF OF THE KANSAS PACIFIC RAILWAY CO., BEFORE THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR AND THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF THE U.S. [wrapper ... Argument written and compiled by Artemas H. Holmes, legal counsel for the Kansas Pacific Railway, and addressed to the Secretary of the Interior and the Attorney General of the United States, outlining the company's argument in a legal dispute with the Union Pacific Railroad. In the 1870s, the two railways were in competition for transcontinental traffic to and from the Pacific, with the Union Pacific operating a line between Omaha and Cheyenne and the Kansas Pacific operating a competing line between Kansas City and Denver. To get to and from the West Coast, however, customers of the Kansas Pacific had to use the Union Pacific's Cheyenne-Ogden line, which was connected to the Kansas Pacific via the Denver Pacific Railway running between Cheyenne and Denver. As the present document explains, the dispute between the companies arose over the Union Pacific's rate structure and, more specifically, over its practice of charging as much, if not more, to transport passengers and freight over the 516 miles between Cheyenne and Ogden as it did to transport them over the entire 1,032-mile route between Omaha and Ogden, thereby effectively forcing transcontinental customers to choose the Union Pacific's own line over its rival's. Such discrimination, the Kansas Pacific and its lawyers claimed, was a violation of the Pacific Railway Acts o

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