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Show Passenger Railroad Service May Be Discontinued It -is understood some few weeks ago an investigation was made as to the advisability of introducing passenger trains propelled by gasoline motors on the Denver and Rio Grande railroad rail-road from Bingham to Salt Lake City, but from latest reports it seems the matter has fallen by the way and the passenger service ser-vice now in vogue will be discontinued dis-continued providing the Public Utilities Commission grants the request of T. II. Bascom, the Receiver of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Sys- tem. In asking that this train service ser-vice be allowed to stop, the petitioner pe-titioner offers figures to show a loss of $1375 a month in operation opera-tion of the two trains carried between these points daily. One passenger train leaves Salt Lake at 8 o'clock arriving here at 9:05 o'clock each forenoon, fore-noon, according to the present schedule, the petitioner states, while a train also leaves Bingham Bing-ham at 9:20 arriving in Salt Lake at 10:30 o'clock each forenoon. fore-noon. An exhibit of the expenditures expendi-tures and revenues for the nine months from January to September Sep-tember of this year was attached. attach-ed. In that period $12,430.67 loss is claimed. It is presented that in that period $17,552.33 was expended, while the revenue reven-ue was but $5121.66. The receiver claims an average aver-age loss of $2.50 per passenger during the period named. It is represented that 4943 passengers passen-gers were hauled during the period from January 1 to. October Octo-ber 1. or an average of 550 a month. "The loss from the operation of said trains is actually greater than the figures set forth in the exhibit for the reason that the figures do not take into account any expenses of maintenance of roadway, expenses of selling tickets, pro rata expenses of maintaining stations, interest charges on mortgage indebtedness, indebted-ness, depreciation or other general gen-eral overhead charges, the figures fig-ures showing only the actual direct di-rect expenses of operating said trans," the petitioner claimed. Arrangements with the Amer ican Express company, it is made known by the receiver, ! have been made for delivery of express matter to and from the Bingham district by the company com-pany by automobile truck, at approximately the same hours and rates as those with which the residents of Bingham are now served. Express matter for Lark will be handled also by truck under the arrangement. |