Show MILLIONS OF DOLLARS SOON TO BE EXPENDED coal supply to be quadrupled the largest shops on the gould system to be constructed at salt lake two hundred business men of salt lake cheered wildly when pros B r bush of the gould lines announced quietly at the commercial club last night that the gould system proposed to construct in salt like the largest shops of the system and to bring to silt lake a large number of additional employ ces the cheering was moro than redoubled when mr bush in his cisa conversational 64 ie said that tho denver rio grando railway would co operate with the coal producers of utah in increasing the tonnage of the coil mines and ho predicted that within five veirs the coal output of utah would be quadrupled he tint in five cars the coal output of utah would be tons per year instead of also he remarked that nowhere in the country were coal fields equaled continuing mr bush said that the denser rio grande proposed to electrify the road from grind junction to salt lake i distance of miles and to continue the work of double tricking and building extensions just as rapidly as the finances of the company bould warrant he baid thit he felt sure that it would be possible to secure finan cal assistance for such extensions as were necessary to aid the local builders in opening now countie and providing transportation necessary to the development of local re sourhea president bush however sounded a note of warning in his address ho served notice on the public and especially the business lc a radical change in public sentiment toward the railroads was made the government would either have to take over the business of the country or stand responsible for the credit of the transportation companies ho said tho credit of transportation compi was greatly impaired and the development of the country hampered by the prevalent anti railroad sentiment the promes of mr bush took the members of the club by sui prise never in the history of the club it was said has there a ap who has brought utah more definite promise of greit development than did mr bush tribune |