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Show f WhaT Railroads Have Done in 1 908 I '31 Whatever effect the hand-made panic iil I' 'tlu" ,ia 011 ucr mcn ,na,' 'iS " 11101,1 enterprises depending on a plcnti-iTHfcY plcnti-iTHfcY fill supply of money to realize ou funds t6lJl already" sunk in Ihem. the so-called, uHM pauic had no nioro effect on E. II. &jMX Uarriman.ihnn water on tlio proverbial vAW cluck's back. Ho never. altered an in-''iafH in-''iafH tanl. W,1CU financial giants all around RHH liiiu wore crumbling into tho ashes of jjH bankruptcy". Itis faith in the future of rlclH Salt Bake City was serene, and ho con- tinucd his work on the hnndsomo quarter-mil lion-dollar new passenger station at the foot of South Templo street. With the laying out of tho new passenger pas-senger yards, tho. building of tho train sheds, the grading and beautifying of the depot grounds, tho. foot v&duct across tho tracks, tho to'lal cost of this singlo improvement will roach closo to tho million-dollar mark. "But Harri-man Harri-man has never flinched. Why? Rc-causo Rc-causo ho is watching Salt Lake grow, fl ' 1"; U and while he is watching he is working for that end with all tho might of his great financial standing. Tho now station will accommodato tho passeugGr buslnoss of two important transcontinental lines of railroad. Those aro tho Orogon Short Lino and tho San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake railroad. Tho structure is GOO fcct long and two facades front South Temple, looking cast. Tho main waiting wait-ing room will be on tho ground floor, ladies' waiting aud retiring rooms, news company quarters, train boxes, conductors' conduc-tors' room,, train crews' quarters, Pullman Pull-man supply offices, baggage room, emergency "hospital, barber shop, toilet rooms, bath rooms, stores, lavatories, kitchen, cafe, United States mail sorv-ico sorv-ico quarters, express companies' quarters, quar-ters, telegraph offices and a bureau of information. p The second floor will be devoted entirely en-tirely lo tho offices of the oporattng officials; the superintendents of tho two railroads, their assistants, train-mastors, train-mastors, dispatchers, yardmastcrs, road- i mm masters and supervisors of bridges and buildings. IH When Mr. TTarriman look tho Unioc Pacific, at the timo of the reorganize-lion reorganize-lion iu 1898, there wcro 5325 miles of , IH road being operated, and for the fiscal jH year ending .rune TI0, that year, tho en- jH tiro income from tho system was onb $33,291,125. Ten years 'later it had in-creased in-creased to $S7.-17i,7G6. lie did the same with the Southern Pacific. When ho took hold of it the gross receipts of the system wore but slightly ovor $57,-000,000, $57,-000,000, and in 3907 tho incomo had incroasod to over $130,000,000. mmm OREGON SHORT LINE DEPOT AS IT APPEARS JANUARY 1. I : mm |