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Show SHIPPERS WANT OREM RAILROAD Utah Business Men Petition Interstate Commerce Commission "The continued existence of the Salt Lake and Utah railroad as an independent utility tends to preserve competition, improves the type nntl character of rail service and stimuli! stimu-li! tes the growth and prospt j.-it y of the towns and cities it senes," is the opinion expressed in a petition peti-tion to the interstate commerce commission signed by a large number num-ber of Provo's leading business men and shippers urging the commission ; to allow this road to participate in the haul of transcontinental freight. Many Sign Petition The petition, bearing the signatures signa-tures of practically every manufacturer, manufac-turer, merchant and banker in Salt Lake, Provo and other towns this road serves, will constitute tin' important im-portant part of the evidence to be presented at the rehearing of the case iM'fore ' the commission Decem-hr Decem-hr 3 It is the hope of the business men in this territory 1 that it will disprove the finding of division Til of'the commission which, in reversing revers-ing the case to exclude the Utah route from transcontinental parlici-pntion, parlici-pntion, asserted that there was no "public interest or necessity manifested." mani-fested." IJig Revenue Needed The Salit Luke and Ftab Railroad is seeking the right to solicit among consignees for business originating orig-inating on either coast or in the middlewest; By obtaining the routing rout-ing of freight over its lines, such for instances, as between Provo nntl Salt Lake, it realizes an important port of its revenue. In fact, according accord-ing to officials of the company, this division ot their business is worth an annual revenue of from $100,000 to $300,000 to the compnny. It thus is of vital importance to the life and "prosperity of the road, the petitioners contend, that it be permitted to participate in this type of freighting. Soi-viee Appreciated The petition of the Utah shippers sets forth that the service of the Salt Lake & Utah railroad is furnishing fur-nishing a public convenience and necessity, and that n curtailment or cessation of this service would lie ft public calaiidty . |