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Show i rat of nearly per cent.' The Bant Fa see not paid dividend larger than a pec cent at any tint. Tha Interstate comnwToa com -miaalon la charted by tna transportation trans-portation act ot IMS with ao tixinc run that a fair rat urn will coma to ttaa roada. but thua (ar a fair r-turn r-turn haa not coma. and. aa a con-( equence. tha cradlt ot tha roada haa not baan reetored. Until thta la done, wa cannot do all tha thlna wa ought to do, to say nothing ot tha thinks wa would Ilka to do -Th Santa Fe paid H.4OO,OO0 In tasee laat year and It paid Ita stockholder stock-holder only HMOO.. SANTAFEMAY ELECTRIFY LINE i Colorado Ri-er Surrey Completed PA8ADKNA. Cal. Aug. 14. A urvey ot the hydro-electrlo pna-slbllltle pna-slbllltle of th Colorado river haa been completed by. the Atchison, Topeka Santa Ke railway with a new to aoeslnle electrification of Ita transcontinental lines In the desert region. It waa atated here-y W. B. Htorey, president of the ays-tern, ays-tern, after an addreaa before members mem-bers of tha chamber of commerce. "Our engineer have completed auch a aurvey." he aald. "While wa hare no definite plana now concerning con-cerning electrification, the question may coma op In tha near future." I In hie addreaa he aald: ! "Making my eatlmate on the amount expended by the Banta Pa In the last twenty years. I believe 11.104.000.000 should b expended annually by th rallroada of the country for th next three years I to place them where they ahould ba I In relation to the buelneaa of the country, and after that at leaat i. 000.000.000 a year. t 1 "The railroad at present are In hard straits aa regarda earnings. I epeak of the rallroada a a whole. more than 4 par cant, and thle year. Uhjnsxherjiavearedath |