Salt Lake Herald | 1901-12-05 | Page 3 | Western Road's Conference

ROADS Freight and Passenger Th Dis at New Hew York New Xe York Dec 4 Representatives of practically every railroad running ng west of Chicago with the exception of the Creat Northern held a I meeting today in this city The business bu of the theion ses session ion sion was unusually brief lid and az had haC to do chiefly with the problem of or maintaining freight and passenger rates through b the theist vast country traversed traverse by these roads road it I t was announced Perhaps the moat most se serious serious rious problem which presented itself to tot toI the t I ht he railroad men was the tbt increasing ear famine which at this time taxes the ca capacity of all the more important roads road No x 0 conclusion was reached on this point but lut ut it was suggested that it might be bet ben t necessary n to make a per diem charge charp J instead of a mileage charge for the use uee of cars Regarding the rate te situation freight Jt and r reports Orts submitted sub indi indicated rated that these hele were in Ir a hirlY satin satis satisfactory factory condition There were no com corn complaints complaints plaints of rate cutting presented No announcement was made of f action for or t against the proposed pooling bill