| Show IL P DEPOT has gone in am BANCROFT will consider the matter employment for Provo MenT table superintendent carwin boad master nickerson and master mechanic hinckley of the division of the union pacific railroad came down from salt lake yesterday morning and remained until the return train in the afternoon the gentlemen were called upon by mr probert and a couple of newspaper men with the object in view of gaining if possible some definite information in relation to provo s proposed new TT P depot mr carwin stated that the commini aaion in relation to a depot for provo aad gone in bat what action oe taken in the matter was as yet an ari certainty money was very tight and the change in the management of the road had delayed matters somewhat superintendent bancroft would probably be in the city in a few java to look over the situation they were down at present on ice and roadway business the ties piled at the provo yard and elsewhere were to be distributed along the road instead of on a special work train a force of thirty five men would be lifred at to repair the portion of the road in the vicinity of this cily the time table was to be changed the two morning trains which pass through provo the one going south and the other north were to be run ten minutes earlier and the northbound afternoon train would pass through provo at instead of at 25 during conversation the mr probe rt of course got off several of his charac te speeches be explained to the ent lemei that utah county was the conaty not only of Utah but 0 f the west chore was not another county between colorado and California that had such facilities salt lake county of course would pass but then what was there in the county outside of salt lake utah county had mini ral and agricultural resources a number of towns all of which were well supplied with water when the people of salt lake got salty from bathing in great salt lake they could come down here and bathe in the utah lake and get freshened up and of this county provo is the county seat hundreds of strangers haye come in during the past four months and each one of them has from twenty to fifty friends who are coming next season I 1 tell you gentlemen this depot is the thing that give the torri a black y the gentlemen all agreed that provo was deserving of new depot accommodations a union passenger depot and a separate freight depot for each of the railroad companies in the afternoon a drive was taken to and around the city |
