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Show TRACTION COMPANY AGAIN REPORTS LOSS Continued loss, as compared with the corresponding month of last year, is shown In the November report of the I Utah Light & Traction company which was filed yesterday by General Manager H. F. Dicke with the state public utilities utili-ties commission. "No doubt you will recall that the results re-sults of opera t ion for the month of October Oc-tober were very dismal." Mr. Dicke says in a brief accompanying the note, "but nfter looking over the attached report you will see that November is even worse." ' Part of the loss fs accounted for through influenza regulations. Decrease in passengers pas-sengers is found in the fact that the number num-ber of students and pupils carried was much reduced through closing of the schools. v Gross earnings 1n November, 1917, were ?1 2tiJ4.0Sf according to the report, and those for tho same month this year were S1O1.021.97, v In November, 1917, the op-crating op-crating expenses were $92. 020. OS, while those for last month were SSS.372.70. Net from operations, exclusive of depreciation, in November. 1917, was 5r4,o93.95, and last month. 5n.TvJ9.27. |