Show CHANCES FOR CUTOFF Believed to Be Good by Board of Governors of Commercial ClubS City Council I to Be Asked to Help Salt Lakes chance of getting tho Southern Pacific cutoff arc considered good by the board of governors of tho Commercial club which met last night at the Knutsford hotel to receive the report of tho committee appointed at the previous pre-vious meeting to confer with Mr Hard man In regard to the matter The report Included tho telegraphic correspondence that passed between the commltteo and Mr ICrut schn itt together with other data relative to the route of the proposed cutoff and arguments to be used In advancing ad-vancing the claims of the city to recognition recog-nition In the matter After hearing the report the board of governors authorized the committee to I continue with Instructions to call upon members of tho club and other citizens for whatever assistance deemed necessary neces-sary Tho committee was Instructed to rJ wait upon Mayor Thompson and request him to send a mffisnKC to the Council asking for an official expression from that body favorable to the southern cutoff I cut-off Such an expression It Is believed of would have more weight than tho petition peti-tion of Individuate or even of the Commercial Com-mercial club The committees report was accompanied by tho following communication communi-cation Your committee to which was referred the matter securing a hearing from the management of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads In behalf of Salt Lakes advantages as a terminus on the proposed new route for transconti nental traffic beg leave I to submit tho attached report While tho data available avail-able In the short tlmo allowed the com I mltteo Is necessarily incomplete we lie hove sufficient facts are act forth to Justify us In expecting a favorable decision deci-sion from tho management of tho railroad rail-road companion If the cose IH properly presented to them The telegraphic cor ispondcnce with Mr Jlarrlmstn and Mr Krutschnltt which Is made n part of the roport shows a dlsposlton to accord UB a Call hearing which of Itself may bo taken as an Indication that Salt Lakes claims will be considered on their merits In presenting Its report the committee commit-tee wishes to make acknowledgment of services rendered by MaJ Edmund Wilkes by Mr L II Murdoch of tho weather office by Prof Marcus B Jones and othors who have assisted the committee com-mittee In the collection of Information The Salt Lake public general has shown a most gratifying Interest In the movement move-ment Inaugurated by the club ao shown by voluntary expressions of intermit t and offers of assistance in the work of the committee commltee THOMAS G WEBBER W A NELDEN R A DRLJEHL Committee |