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Show THE RAILROADS. There Is a Strong; Probability That tho Hranch O III era Will ba Closed. Within the past month all of the local agents of the railroads having offices in Salt Lake have been summoned to general gen-eral headquarters. The suddenness of this general movement clearly shows that tho main object in closing these of-lices of-lices is to reduce expenses and have one general office somewhere in the cast. An old railroader says that such an action will be detrimental to the interests in-terests of the lines in question. The stockholders are crying for more money and tho management in order to give an ear to their demands has pursued pur-sued this course. "For a man to sit in his office," continued con-tinued tho railroader, "and say such and such offices shall be abolished is all very nice. Ho can do so and does he look at the results with a practical eve? The presence of such offices is a mighty big help to shippers. Tho latter can and do hunt up delayed freight and otherwise render large accommodation to local patrons of the road. Suppose all the roads did have only one general office aud freight should go astray and other matters of importance go wrong, the independence of the general office in the east would be apparent at once. As a general thing such stands do not give the satisfaction as the local offices actually do to the public. I think the closing of the offices wnild be a mighty big mistake." |