Show POLICY Of IMPROVEMENT IS ED Extensions Promised as R Result Re Re- suit sult sui of Expenditure Announced Announced Announced An An- Yesterday H The The announcement of Judge Robert S. S Lovett Lo that the tho Harriman lines will wi expend in double tracking the tho lines of oC the Union Pacific Southern Pacific and Oregon Short Lino Line should be good news ners s ne to the people of tho the west Not on only will j it mean the tho greatly p in increasing 1 creasing of the tho transportation facilities i. i ties but much of the tho money mODey will Wi be spent ane and circulated in the west Wo We 0 have ha e known for or a 1 long time timo that it i was wa but a question queston of time before before be be- fore tho the work would have havo o ha to bo be done dono donoto to meet the thc growing rowin needs of the west The Tho news lews from New Now York is indeed gratifying to me nue This was W the comment made this morning by William H. H Bancroft vice ico president and general manager of the tho Ore Oregon on Short Line rc regarding arcin the tho ac action action a. a ac- ac tion ton of the executive boara board of the tho Harriman lines in voting Hariman yesterday for improvements ts on three of its Jt lines fines in the west as ns announced in THE TELEGRAM I of yesterday The TIme statement of Jud Judge o Lovett was Hindu last Jast ni night ht President Lovett said that by July 1 the Ine lines west of Omaha Omaha would have hav about miles of ot double tracks Tho The entire entre country countr served by the tho Union Pacific and Southern Souther Pacific terns Jud Judge o Lovett Lovet continued in his statement is developing dc rapidly rapidly indeed it I is only In Its Is Infancy and infancy and we wo are arc convinced con con- conI I vinced that Its growth In population and Its agricultural and commercial development develop develop- ment mont mu must t continue and it I Is our purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose to provide If we can transportation facilities necessary to accommodate the tho growing business nes Un Unfavorable favorable Conditions Temporary True Tree Tre the outlook In many respects Is b unsatisfactory With an increase of ot wages nil ni along the line lne with wih the right to increase e our rates suspended by law nn amu and further re regulation and hostile hoste leg leg- threatened and with wih investors ln Investor still timid and asking hl high h rates for mone money required by railroad companies it I may seem a time Cor for curtailment rather than tum Increased expenditure by railroad managers But we c believe this unfavorable unfavorable unfavorable able condition Is temporary The Tho growth and development of tho the country countr at least that portion porIon of it t served by our lines I Is bound to continue Nothing can stop it long Wo It o are sure needs our railroads rail nil ri roads and all al these facilities we are aro going to provide We believe that In the long run rn the people are going to treat railroad Investments Investments Invest Invest- ments Just as they treat all al other In Investments investments In- In vestments for time tho development of their section They cannot afford aCord to do anything any any- thing el else c. c Plan Pla Several Extensions If I wo we wait until all 11 difficulties arc are out of the tho way we wo shall probably find our lines falling behind Instead of or doln doing their share shae in the development of the growing country in which they are situ situ- We have kept abreast thus far farand farand farand and we intend to continue that policy poley as long hong as we can re regardless ardless of temporary disturbances s of any kind hind Plans for fOl the construction of ot a anum mum num- her bel of extensions and new lines tributary tribu tribu- tory tab to the Union Pacific and Southern Southam Pacific in the tIme west vest and northwest which for some time have been under consideration tion ton were also approved toda today the ex expenditures ex- ex to extend over oer a period perio of oC six years ears |