Show HAYS VISITS OGDEN Southern Pacific President Talks of Harriman Combine Ogden Feb 4 Chartes M 31 I Hays Hars president nt of the Southern Pacific system ays tem tent came in from the west Weilt today at by special train A dele delegation gation headed by Mayor MaY r Browning IWas was at the depot depo to meet the special train train with carriages cairIes carri it having been previously arranged s T by y telegraph that the party should shook be given ve drive about the city and up as ae far ae 8 a the power house hou e of the te t Utah Light Li bt Power com corn company company pany Mr Mt Hays Bays was reedy ready dy to step from the car into in a carriage e but de erred starting on the drive until an interview had been given to the news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper men melt He confirmed in iii general terms all the previous interviews given io n by the theAs Associated As Press Pre e about the acquisition of ot the Southern Pacific by the Harri Harriman Harriman man mari syndicate and the probability that no sweeping changes of policy would result lt No there will be no DO extensive changes in to n consequence of the union of interests said Mid he As Aa I 1 have before stated there will w l be no DO change c of of dears on the Southern Pacific because of or this change hi ownership No of officers officers fibers will be removed from Ogden which continue to be the Southern Pacific terminal The straps shops here win wID certainly not be removed or curtailed I can conceive of their being enlarged to meet the re to requirement qun of the Union Pacific as well as the Southern Pacific No young man there is nothing detrimental to any Ogden interest tl I may say to any aDY western interest tia in this change in ino o ownership of the Southern Pacific Regarding the proposed to be constructed 41 the lake u Mr Hays said I 1 am entirely unprepared to speak about that You see Bee ee I lam am pretty green as 8 a Southern Pad Pacific He president and have not given it any y attention I However while Inspecting this divis division Jon ion I readily saw the Ute need of ot some BOine such I improvement for overcoming the digit difficulties of our present t roadway I found fo nd from my inspection that the I I Salt Lake division is III in good shape I very good shape There are some BOme drawbacks drawback but improvements are al already already already ready under way to t remedy them then My trip east te s at the request of I President Burt of the Union Pacific who wants to talk over er matters matter with me I do not know when or where here I shall hall meet him We had started from Los Ios Angeles on our trip of ad inspection I when this eastern trip tri became cores necea necessary nary ear I II I understand the tile Oregon Short Line I had been absorbed by the tile Union Pa Pacific PaI cUte before this th recent reee nt deal so 80 that the three tOadS roads are of course coune un under under Under I der one ODe general seral control COI fOI In the party besides President Hays were General Manager J JH JH H Wallace together with Mr Phillips I and Mr secretaries of Mr Hays and Mr Su Superintendent I NoMe Noble Je earns eIDe in from the west with the party and accompanied them in the drive bout about t the city Among the other cither citizen dUse in the party were Mayor Browning A 4 T Wright Dan Hamer Hamel and Sidney Stevens The party returned to the Reed hotel w where here a H banquet buquet was w given in honor of the visitors mUon at which Og den business men mea were present Mr Hays made a brief add in which he expressed express himself as much pleased planned with ith Ogden den O and her and hoped that the present pre relations rel will wm always exist between the railroads and tile the city After the banquet a conference for about an hour hoar and a ugh was ara he h 1 l in inthe Inthe the parlors parlo Mr Haya spent t the night nl In isis his private te car ca tOfA Will wiH go P on OD east easton easton easton on a special train Mt an the Union Pacific tomorrow |