Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-09 | Page 2 | Western Roads Abandon Rails

WESTERN ROADS ABANDON ABANDON RAILS t WASHINGTON Sept 9 p- p Bowing to the modern motor stage stagecoach j coach coach Imd and truck truck just just as they drove out the tho picturesque old horse-drawn horse coach and the pony express railroads railroads rail rail- roads of tho the west today are ao gradually gradually gradually ally abandoning the steel tentacles that once helped develop tho the great greatt t territory on the tho su sunset et side of the Alleghenies These tentacles the tentacles the small branch lines Jines built to tap tho the great natural resources of the west west have have become useless The line Une is paralleled by a paved highway throughout its Us entire length and trucks and buses have taken the business ss away from it It reads read petition after petition for permission per per- mIsI mission n to take up the tha rails Some Someo o of at the railroads have havo substituted buses buss and trucks truck of their own From October r 31 1934 the date of the last annual report of tho the interstate inter Inter- state commerce commission to Sep 1 the commission had au authorised au- au thorl ed abandonment of 1323 miles nilles of ot rail In all sections of ot the tho countr country The commission In all ll its has approved abandonment of approximately ap ap- proximately l miles mile T the he as complied compIled from monthly reports of the bureau 1 of finance of the commission for forthe forthe forthe the first ten months of the tho current i year r arc arcas as follows No of r Section App API Miles Mile west between and 14 pt 1 river 91 West Westor of Mississippi 15 is 15 InUre Entire middle west 29 18 Mountain Pacific territory 17 11 Southwest ie 6 S 68 Southern territory 13 13 Eastern territory IB 1