Show GAIN I If IN f FREIGHT SHOWN SHOW OY BY IN 1926 P Passenger Revenue Decreases De De- De Decreases Decreases creases During During During Dur Dur- ing Year An Increase of ot in freIght revenue for 1926 over ver 1925 1 Is shown by the annual report of oC th the Salt Lake Utah Railway company company com corn pany with Henry I. I Moore and D D. P. P Abercrombie receivers filed lIed with wit the public utilities c commission Tuesday This gain was made de despite despite dee de- spite the decrease in the beet crop which Is always a source of oC important im important important im- im revenue for the line There was a decrease in In passenger passenger pas pas- revenue of compared with the previous year There ha has been a big decrease ase during pas past years in the passenger business according to officials of the line due to the construction of ot hard hare surfaced roads and the increase ii in hi automobile traffic However th the h decline in passenger business business- I 1 believed to ha have reached ve-reached- reached bedrock a ait as asIt asIt it was far le less s marked during 1926 than during the previous four yearn year Improvements cost and included new substations at Chipman Chipman Chipman Chip Chip- man and Curtis and additions to the stations at Granger am an and The gross income of the road was operating expenses anc and taxes were and the net railway railway railway rail rail- way operating income was The accrued interest on corporate funded obligations totaled |