Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-09-10 | Page 1 | "I Do Not Want Western Pacific"

"I DO HOT WANT This Is How E. H. Harriman Explodes Ex-plodes Some Newspaper Men's Dreams. HE HAS ENOUGH ON HIS HANDS AT PRESENT Has Not Entered Into Any Negotiations Ne-gotiations for Purchase of Gould Road. Special to The Tribune. OGDJ2N, SepL 0. "I do not want tho Western Pacific railroad; have entered Into no negotiations for Its purchase, and have no engagement with Engineer Alfred Robinson to moot him In Salt Lake and look over any data lie may liavc collected concerning that road," was tlio way In which Edward IT. Tlarrlman, the railroad magnate, denied Wednesday afternoon a story which appeared In a Salt Lake morning newspaper, as ho stepped from hfs private car "Ardcn" when the special train bearing him to tlip East rolled Into the Union depot In this city. Mr. Harriman. with his peculiar mnn-ncr mnn-ncr of nnswerhig questions by asking Uir questioner one In return, inquired: "Don't you think I have enough on my hands already without taking hold of anything else?" Of the report ho said he had heard nothing, aa lie never reads the newspapers, and when an out-of-town newspaper man started to read the clipping clip-ping containing the report, he smiled and motioned for him to discontinue, remarking remark-ing that there was absolutely nothing In the story. Salt Lake Car System. Regarding the continuation of Improvements Improve-ments on the street car system of Salt Lake City. Mr. llarrlmun said that he was not entirely posted, the matter being I In the hands of Genera Manager Can-croft Can-croft of the Oregon Short Line, but that I work and Improvements on tho entire sys- 1 tern would continue as long as the revenues reve-nues and other conditions warrant It. , The special train reached this city a. few minutes after 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, and after a thirty-minute stop Mr. Uarrimun nnd Ills party continued east. He said that he had wanted to stop over in Salt Lake, but by doing so he would have lost a day. and that he was anxious to' return homo so that his son could enter school when the session opened. Accompanying Mr. Harriman to the city were a number of prominent railroad officials, including General Manager Bancroft Ban-croft of the Oregon Short Line, who returned re-turned to Salt Lhkc on a special train with other officials immediately after the departure of the Harriman special. Governor John C, Cutler, W. S. Mc-Cornlck Mc-Cornlck and T. R. Cutler were presented to Mr. Harriman by General Manager Bancroft at the depot after he left his car.