Show RAilROAD WOUlD QUIT Idaho Southern May Abandon Abandon Aban Aban- don Lize Make aile It 1 Highway to The Boise Dolse Ida Sept Sent 3 If IC If a n request made to tho the public utilities commission commis commis- sion by farmers In tho the vicinity of oC Wendell ondell Is granted the roadbed ot of the defunct Southern railroad will be made Into an automobile boulevard Tho The commission held a hearing at Goading Gooding on tho the application of ot the Idaho Southern to quit business At Lh the hearing hearing- farmers in the tho lower end of ot Gooding county appeared and asked th that t the roadbed be kept Intact and leveled down for Cor a public highway No action on the tho railroads railroad's Hon tion to pass out of existence has I been taken taleen Until a 3 decision Is handed down clown the farmers must wait walt for tor an answer to Lo their proposition the com corn missioners s said There Thoro were no objections offered at the hearing In Gooding to tho the abandonment of the road the tho farmers being more Interested in getting a new highway between Goo Gooding and Wendell Vendell than In keeping keeping- the railroad thoy they had They offered to donate donaLo all land occupied lJ by the thc right of or way and andIe give I more land if it It was deemed ii necessary cc e r The Time Idaho Southern runs from Gooding to Wendell a distance of or twenty-one twenty miles The Tho roadbed Is Js In fair Cair condition but the rolling stock I Is of little value Members I of or thi the public utilities com com- mission said that thai the Indications sold old that if it the tho rails will be UP and are the railroad goes goe out of or busi- busi ness No so trains have havo been operated over o the road since lato late In June last I I |