Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-06-15 | Page 9 | R. R. Wants to Quit Passenger Service

R F Wants to Quit Passenger Service he e Utah Railway company seeks seeka o abandon all its scheduled mixed an service service and has applied to the thee e utilities commission for au- au rity to do tIt so The applicant sets rth th lh that the thc character of the busEs bus busi- Es of the company is the transportation tation atlon of freight principally coal steam railroad between King mIne at Hiawatha an antI antl 1 Provo The e company points out that its tal operating oper revenue during the thear 1 l ar r 1925 was derived from moving coal and this revenue nas w s per cent of its total opo op- op o revenue The result of furnishing furnishing fur- fur the mixed train service resulted res re- re s in a large deficit it states The he company claims the operating for a period January 1 I 1 22 to March 1 31 1926 on ac- ac tint nt of pas passenger enger excess baggage all il and express totaled a and d the passenger proportion of operating operating op- op expenses for the same pe- pe od amounted to which hows bows a deficit of