Show CANT HANDLE THE BUSINESS Railroads Not Keeping Pace With Development De-velopment of the West Chicago That It will be useless to attempt to develop the west with inadequate In-adequate railroad facilities was the assertion as-sertion of transportation officers at it mooting In Chicago on Thursday Tho conference was of general passenger agents of western railroads and tho question far consideration was low liompseekers rates during tho coming winter and spring It had been proposed pro-posed that for tho sake of developing tho transMissouri country tho usual low round trip fares should bo authorized author-ized which rates have had tho effecv of helping to settle tho great district during the past few years After a thorough discussion It was tho consensus of opinion that It would ho useless to go ahead with low rates and attempt to populate tho western states when transportation companies are entirely inadequate to handle the present business It was a 1 frank confession on tho part of the railroad men of tho deplorable de-plorable condition of transportation lines showing that wlillo tho west needs people tho railroads aro not In a position to handle the traffic |