Show t 8 PH PRODUCERS 0 MUST P PROSPER OSPER TO Am AID UTILITIES Western Pacific President r Points pints ints to Essentials of Sound Prosperity Tho uTh l hp Essentials Es of Sound Prosperity Prosper Prosper- ity forms the subject of an article contributed to Pacific Industries by i Cb rles M. M Levey Lever president of the Western Pacific Railroad company company a copy of which has been received here i Mr vey refers reters to o the value alue of transportation to any community and sa says say s 's How to bring the people and andI I the land together is s the problem of the Vest and one of the functions t ind studies of any utility company I Mr Levey's views follow All AU the California utility com corn comI companies whether rail raU power water or I what not must depend for expansion and nd prosperity on the development of Df the tie primary industries o of the soil These are products of ot tho the farm and ranch anch of of mines including Ing oil and andor of or tho the forests Even a corporation like tZ the Spring Valley Water company company com corn pany which supplies the peo people lo of ofSan ofSan ofSan San Francisco with water is indirectly indirectly indi IncH deeply concerned in a the prosperity prosperity prosperity pros pros- of pf the rural element with which the corporation has no direct contact five Eighty-five per cent of the business of San Francisco is based first or last Jast on n the well being of the tho primary primary mary producers of California Give the primary producers what their spokesmen insist is aH aU they ask ask ask- which h is cost and a fair profit for their efforts efforts and and the remainder of the commonwealth will take care of ofUs Us itself el 1 Every utility corporation I think will subscribe to this general statement statement statement state state- ment as to the ultimate foundation of any real prosperity OLD THEORY DISCREDITED Nothing could be e more thoroughly discredited than the old theory that the tho railroads and for that matter all utility companies selfishly aro are satisfied satisfied satis satis- fied tied so so long as they get their share sharer of r Business in any arty designated section fth state slate or country in which they theyo o operate X te the contrary contrarY the railroad and ancl th Utility companies are keenly alive atIt atI to the well-being well of the population popi- popi lation they serve Every ery utility corporation corporation cor cor- man desires most of all that the people with whom he does business busi busl- ness ness shall ness shall be up up to the m minute nute in business activity and permanent de de- de It all makes for more and better business for the utility itself These principles apply to to the Western Pacific We operate in central central central cen cen- and nd northern California in Nevada Nevada Ne Ne- Nevada Ne- Ne vada and Utah If the rural element of California or-California receives Just returns for forit it product if miners are paid re- re m prices ir It the cattlemen and the everywhere are finan financially prosperous If the Utah primary industries are active if the mass ass of the people in our territory are busy and satisfied and launching into new and legitimate enterprises while whilo the old ones grow then thep we cannot help being prosperous ourselves if our business is properly managed How these hundreds of or thousands of people are to attain attall that happy condition condition con con- condition is one of our problems in so far as It pertains to transportation the tho largest single factor in the grow growth th of any community or state or of the I nation for that matter TRANSPORTATION ESSENTIAL n u. u I V L u U pt nave adequate transportation transportation trans trans- the they solve In largo large measure measure meas meas- ure tire all of their the other problems To give satisfactory transportation Is our first and big task All Pacific coast railway lines traverse territory that could easily support many times the present lation I E should hesitate to say how large a population could be bo m maintained main main- tamed in that portion of California from Bakersfield in w western west west- stern st- st em ern Oregon and Washington and in northern and central Nevada and in Utah Unused land or land only slightly in use Is found by the t tofts s of thousands of square miles All these districts need people and Inmany Inmany in inmany many many sections there Is ample water and the land fand is naturally productive But the land needs capital as well as people We have undeveloped wealth of untold amount right at our doors and tributary to our railroad track track- age How to bring the people and I Ithe the land together is the problem of ot the West and one of the tho functions 1 and studies of of any utility company company Every additional family means more I traffic for some transportation company company com corn pany more stores and factories in the cities and an addition to the wealth of the nation nTo n. n To expand along the lines here hero laid down Is the settled policy of the Western Pacific To announce a definite definite deli deli- nite program would be out of place at this time The plans we have hav must be unfolded one by one as the time comes for their 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