Salt Lake Herald | 1890-10-19 | Page 8 | Witcher Jones on a Union Depot

Wltcher Jones on a Union Depot What will THE HERALD have tomor ow today on the Deep Creek business asked Witcher Jones who is Bacons right band man of a HERALD reporter THE HEU VLD will have what the people have to say on the subject good bad or ndfferent said the reporter and added If you have anything to say THE HCUALD wants to print it The union depot is not understood said Mr Jones and if it was the peopole would not be for it Six separate depots mean the employment of six times as much local help to run them as would be required to do the work at one union depotWill Will you illustrate this point Certairily There will be required six ticket agents six baggage men six train dispatchers six guards day and night twelve truckmen and six telegraph operators opera-tors and a like number of all other kinds of help There you have seventytwo men and their families against twelve with a union depot Of course the railroads favor it as it is the cheapest way to do business but the cheapest way of doing business for the railroads is not always best for the city Take Chicago for instance The thirteen trunk lines there offared a million and a half of dollars if the city would provide pro-vide them with a union depot but the shrewd business men of that city readily saw that it would cost them a million and a half dollars every year in operation or nearly the exact amount it would save the railroads Besides Be-sides there is the omnibus business that thrives best where there are separate depots and this with the hackmen is no small matter in a city like Chicago nor is it to J be despised in a city that has so many tourists visiting it as Salt Lake While a union depot saves money to the railroads and the travelers it keeps this same money from getting into the pockets of the local business men