Show BANCROfT DENIES RETRENCHMENT ON HARRIMAN LINES There is absolutely no truth to the story was the statement made this morning by W. W II 11 Bancroft when shown a dispatch from Ogden that local officers off off- cers of the Harriman system including the Union Pacific the Oregon Short Line and the Southern Pacific had received orders to stop all Improvement work and to Inaugurate a rigid retrenchment pol pal icy I The dispatch announced that the order had come from Julius director of maintenance and operation of ot the Harriman system Mr Bancroft Dancroft smiled as he read the dis dis- dis- dis patch Nothing to it it said he at least I 1 have heard nothing of such an order and then with a smile I am Inclined to think that I would have been notified if tr such a move were contemplated In Jn view of the fact that Mr Bancroft Dancroft returned yesterday afternoon from a conference conference con con- ference ferenee with Mr at Chicago local railroad men brand the story as pipe dream The only way that local officers of the Short Line can account for the story coming from Ogden Is the fact that the western headquarters of the Union Pacific are shortly to be moved from that city to Rawlins Wyo and some somo one in Ogden got the idea that the move that the Harriman system was about to go out of ot business |