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Show I OEHEERIS COST EFFICIENT OF SHOOT LINES Uad Ita Inception Forty Y ears Ago in a Little Road to Hot Sprint, Electrified in 191Q Jtnlnc to connect th two Urges Urg-es cities in ITiah and paselng tajrougn the richest sgrleultursl ftrHt In lha elate, th Hamherger .lrle Ilea, whlrh la only forty I nailee In ' length, la nrnbahlv one ! the moot eflrtlhe and efficient Wort llnea In the I'nlted Btales. It Vvea as the center link of th tBee electric routes In Utah, with tax Salt lke I'lah on tha south aevi the Idaho Central n th north. The Bamberger electric takes Ita nme Irom Hmion Bamberger, lis faamder, who more than thlrtv yware ago conceived the Idea of rSnstrurllng a railroad to provide lei al service between Halt like ad Ogden. In eplle of considerable consider-able opposition, peaalmlam and dissuasion dis-suasion of hla friends. Mr. Hint-hrter. Hint-hrter. with practically nothing but has own resources, succeeded In (Wnstrurllng. bit by bit. tha o-c4l.d o-c4l.d "dummy Una" Th first air was th mil road built from Malt laka to Hot Hprlngs In KM ailed the Oroat Bait Lake eV Hot rorlngs rallwar. This wss open fr Irsfflo In 11(1, and In KM the rwad waa continued to Ogden and named the Bait I.ka Ogden . rw. Iway. In those days the hoys used to Jokingly call It the "Wan-dei-ing Jaw." The road was elec-! elec-! trtflsd In 10 and HIS. In 1117 the name waa again changed to hat Is ,, now tha "Bamberger Klectrla." EKVI 200,000 PEOPlV .The road serves at preeent a population of apnrnilmalely ftn.. two people, and. although primarily if paaeenger lln. It ilea developed durlhg the last ten ) care a luira-le luira-le freight biialnese, eeieclsllv In fr,i t. vegetables and manufactured articles. The buslnsaa conetanlly Ip. reaaed and waa greatly aided by !nt tariffs with the Denver Bio Grande Weatem. Weatem Pa -rtfin, nouihern Pacific, I'tah-ldaho 'Vntral. Orem line and only rec-nt-lr with lha I'nlon Pacific. Thl haelneea la generally generated by teie nreeenr In Bait Lake and rlen of large Induetrle classified followa: Cal yard, motorcar 1-smp.nlea wholesals dry good a. warehouses, randy manufacturing rampanlee. eand and gravel ran-i ran-i panlee. wholeaal drug rompanlea . ll refineries. Utah alata m. I warehouse, brick manufacturing I companlea I'nlted Btatea govern -I meni arsenal, rnlied States bureau of puhlle roada warehouse, box manufacturing companies and wholesale grocery houses. The road l capitalised tor Sl.tntOAA, the stock being owned by Bltnon Bamberger, Bam-berger, chairman of th board of directors: his son, Julian Bamberger, Bamber-ger, president and general manacer and member of their Immediate families. MAO UNIQUI CLOCK. Hanging on lha wall In tha office of-fice of Julian Bamberger la a pa. runar clock which closely resembles resem-bles the steam guag on an engine. en-gine. Any Interesting story of the history of Ihs I'.amherger line would he Incomplete without It It appear that back In Hot considerable consid-erable dissension arose over the naming of tha flret launch placed on Lagoon lake. Finally, after several sev-eral volleys of verbal verbiage, the t"at waa named Maude Adam . Un",u ' artrea. "i '""-"'ii Miss Adams visited Bali Lsk, , on , ,r)p , laaoon became aware of the boat being named after her. Deeply I grateful for tha consideration, ehe forwarded a ahlp clock, n that tolls th ahlp. bslls. to th Ita.a-berger Ita.a-berger railroad, to hav I, InsLalled on th launch. om that time until Kit Julian Bamberger, whs Is responsible for the story of lha ' tha tariffa mrm piihltshfd It will Lrit.1t tht He,intrar Kiertrle to 1 randla traffto to and from all dirr- i liona and will crtatly Mimulale ihr fraicht buaineaa of thla railroad, ! and In fan, in freiirht itnnig will ba mora than doubled whan a.l tha tariff ar In opofatt Ion. i Krom a paai,r atandpolnt the i Pimberiir line probably la btlrr altuated than ny of th other hi tarurban llnea In tba alata, due to tha fact that It op rat a ba.weeu: tha two I a - clil.e In the aiiua. The HambarKrr Klactrle atalnialuB a liber, pollry In regard to M-curalon M-curalon traffic, t-atarl't to thta claaa of bualnaaa, and dua to Ita low i.-uralon rate haa built un a big volume of Hi la rlaaa of pitaaenaer tualneaa. While tba itaaaerigwr iuio. moblla haa affect eil the paen?er btialneaa of nearlv vry railroad, tba fact remalna thai lha fUrnbM. er Hne la handling cloee tn l.tito.. 0m peopla annually. frnm I h ae flgurea It la'tlear that not all lha traveling puhlio la uainv lha gaao- llna-drUen vehlrlea. antique, said It waa lost In lll the Bamberger power pant .11.1... ,. p,.r,. I,iV.V'V"r V Ban.her.er I sit ?i hanging 0 ,h. I Tk . ""termed, deaptt. fhe fsct I thst windows snd walls were badly ) around He took the i I'?Vk hreeerved It In his etflcs ever elnce. a stranre re-t re-t r'dr or lh. day. of Msus. j 1 On th clock; Is Inscribed. ! From Maude Adama, lol." i Kvoi.t-Ttoaj ij noLi-ixa stock. i i . !rhr'. hss been a tremendous svs. i lullon In Ike rolling atock of Ike I .f it.'."!' " ,h " the little engines were Jokingly railed the tea kettles. Thee give ay for a large, modern tvpe of en- ne. whlrh fl.allv gave w.y to the I 'I.I """,r"- "d at preeent there . are fifteen motor care In paaaen- blcstlon kaggsgs and passenger cars sod ten of which sre paasen-' paasen-' f!J.c?rl, Tl""! magnificent care , sry in isngth from Is to o f.ei ( 1 end have a raoarlly of fifty. .U passengers for the combination oara i a.d aiaiv.tavo to eeventy for the l V paesenaer rsrs. E.ch ,r, ' la equipped with four motera III- hersepower. mulllple-unlt control. 5 Wevtlngheuae combined slralaht , snd automatic air valve. Thev J "lr!1, forty-slg toaa each and are capable of carrying one trailer at a h.rii rate ef ap.ed. The Bamberger Klectrla la the 1 laet of the "Ihrea Inlerurhan llnea to ? '. k" f. ''J".v"n. ' '"'ht rates i Tl' ,,am "" connec. S Then lh Beniherger Electrlo etas primarily s Passenger road and l andicd very little Interline freight . tn. fcvlaht traffic being confined to rurelv local frelaht business. One hv ope the rannn-ttna et.sm lines saw ihe feeder posalh lt les of this line and entered Into traffic ar- lnli glvlnr the Bamberger electric road through frelaht rates. The Hamherger Clectrtc hss built Its fraught trsfftc from practically a minimum, and with a vigormia aoli.-tintlon end good aervlce hss i l.ui'l tiu Ita frelaht btialneaa to such e-t dent thst for th. yesr a;j it 1 l' handled approximately t-ia ,-s-ioada. Jpat recently Ihe P'on I'a.lflc evatem rranled Ihe J (,-..i.-rgrr r'tectrtc a foil line of turouan freight ratae and whea i |