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Show OODEN PRESENTS HEIt CASE. Tho Hearing by tho Itnlhoad Officials of that City's Claims. Ogden, 1'eb. 10 At noon today rresl. dent Hurt nnd Chief Engineer Perry of tlie, Unloq Pacific nnd Oenernl Malinger Kiuttschnltt nnd Chief Engineer Hno1 of the Southern Pacific met tho commit loo of Ogden business men In room 9 In tho Union depot. Tho Ogden committee commit-tee was composed of David Eccles, Prod J. Klesel, Joseph Hum croft, M, H Hrnwnlnsf, John Watson, Ihomns I), Deo and A. T. Viliht, All newspaper men wcio barred and the dnot carefully guarded to see that no ' news gatherer" got nn Inkling of what took place Th meeting lasted about two hours, und nfteivwurt evernl of the committee were seen, but woull say nothing further than thnt Mo hart a pleaseut meet 'UK," willed had a sound of previous srec.nent Cleneral Manager Kruttscludtt, however, how-ever, wi mora gracioue to tho re-i porters, nnd received them In his prl vate car and treated them with the ut most cordlnlltj To The Tribune he stated that the Ogden gentlemen had preented n full nnd complete review of their cae nnd had presented many facts and figures to them which they would tako under consideration As an Important one he stated that they had given thm some valuable Information ns to the tluctuitlon of tho waters of Great Silt lake, Its maximum nnd minimum height nt different per'ods of the jear, nnd a table showing the gra datlons of the lako level All this, Mr Kruttschnltt and hi nssoclntes would tabulate with the results of the Salt Lake meeting nnd forward Immediately to Mr Harrlmnu lie could not tell when the de l-don would be leachel but It would not Interfere with the bids for tho work from Ogden to tho lake It nlnuvs tikes them about ten dnvs or two weeks to examine tho bids before the contnet Is awarded and till matter would llkcl be settled before thnt time Mr Kruttschnltt was asked If n com plete -urvey had been made of the jnutlimi i-nute and replied that It hid before the hike route hud been deelded upon lie was nsked whether It thej should take the southern route, the) would then como from Salt Lake to Ogden, Og-den, or would n cut-off from the capital city to Echo loive Ogden oft the line. He replied thnt ho did not bellovo the Echo cut-off was feasible The railroad magnetos left for Hilt Lake nt : 10 via the Oregon Short Line Mr Kruttschnltt said ho would return In the evening nnd In company with Mr. Hood, proceed on westward, whllo Mr. Hurt and Mr. Herry would return to Omaha. A SAT ISPACTOHY SHOWING. Lite list everlng one ot'lhe members of tho citizens' committee stnted tint Messrs Lei k and Klesel hnd present eel Ogden s case to the committee. Thej elaborated more particularly on the fluctuation of the water level ns alM.vo noticed Mr Hurt nsked the spenkers a number of questions but In each cise wis met with n satisfactory nnswer. ut least to tho mind of tho buslnes men In conversation with Vice-President Kruttschnltt he dropped tho remark tu the effect that the Union l'acllle eom-panj eom-panj wns prcpailng to do simo extensive ex-tensive Improvement work through Wohcr canvon This lemur k Ink. n with his statement that tho Echo-Halt Like cutoff was not feasible and In his decided opinion would not bo built, Is looked upon hero to me in thnt no change will be made In the origin il Plan of the Ogden-Lucln cutoff. |