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Show FORT BOOSTER FOR WEST AND HARRIM AH At a recent meeting of the Tariff elub of New York City, Oerrit Fort, passenger traffic manager of the Union Pacific and the Oregon Hhort Line, delivered de-livered the prineipaladdreae which haa been largely quoted in several of the eastern papers. Mr. Fort took for bis subject, "(onie Weat, uld Man, Come Weil,'' and in hi addreea gave hia audience reasons for the invitation which be extended for them to come west." Mr. Fort told of the wonderful growth of that section of the went com- nrlaeH i- ITtak l.lBkn Unnliia X . V H . (California, Oregon, Washington, Nebraska Ne-braska and Kansas and gave figures in brief to support bis argument for coming com-ing west and growing up with the country. In brief he discussed several of the big irrigation projects of the west that are making possible the cultivation cul-tivation of tens of thousands of acre of laqds. In concluding his remarks Mr. Fort aaid: I "Ob my way from Han .Francisco to Omaha I found in a current magsr.ine an article bearing the caption 'What Availeth 1 1 1 ' la this article the writer, whose experience, I think, has been n ad about Wall atreet, thus referred to a man who, more than any- single individual, indi-vidual, contributed to the present prosperity pros-perity of the western empire: "The great Harriman. .too, is dead. He left two hundred millions of dollars, aad not oho of his dollars speaks to-the world of ur for him. In a few years these two hundred millions will cease Id moralize on 'theVhtvitybf.wealth. and R. H. Harriman will not even tie a horrible example. This giant of finance ia dead. Alas, he also ia very dead-"Although dead-"Although I do not know the writer of these linen except by the product of his pen. I venture to believe that be has never fared forth from the home of the stock ticker and traversed the country served by the Union ' Pacific railroad, for if no he would know that K. 11. Har. riman left behind him a ' monument which will cause bis name to be remembered remem-bered long after this writer and even writers of greater note have been for- rotten. . I do not know whether Mr. iarriman left behind him two hundred milliona, aa thia writer says; but whatever what-ever the amount it was insignificant rompnred with the increased wealth created for the public by the genius of this man, and two hundred millions would have been .small reward, measured' by-fwvnlta. for Harriman 's work for the west. The rehabilitation of the Union Pacific and its affiliated propertiea has built for him a memorial which will, I opine, last for many generations. gen-erations. " RAILROAD NOTES. J. N. Olthens. general freight agent for the Missouri Pacific, and three other officers offi-cers of that road will arrive In stall Lake City Monday noon In a private car. They will apend a day or two here before proceeding pro-ceeding to the coast. see Thomas Akern, superintendent of the coaat dlvlalon of the ftouthern Paelfle and five other office ra of that devlslon . will reach Plait Lake City tomorrow morning In a private car en route to the eaat. to make an- Inspeotlnn of the-vartoua- roada. While here they will be the gueata of E. O. Maason. general superintendent of tbe Oregon Short Line. . . It ' A. Worthlngten. receiver for the Wheeling A Lake Erie Railroad company, will reach here tomorrow momtng In a private car from the eaat en mute to tbe ceaat. Mr Worfhlngton will be the guest of local officers of the Oregon Snort Line. e The work of relaying the main line of the Idaho dlvlaton of the, Oregon Hhort Line with a-pound eteel rails waa completed com-pleted this momtng. Monday morning the work of track laving on the C'aldwell-Homedale C'aldwell-Homedale branch will commence. |