| Show RECOGNITION FOR ELECTRIC ROADS Competition With Railways Brings Interchange of Mileage CLOVER LEAF ROAD IN LINE General Belief That Electric bail Hoail ill Cause Further la lit laSalt Stilt Salt and amid Hate bate Electric interurban lines hues In the East and amid Middle West are uro slowly und and surely surely sure sure- ly forcing their way to recognition by bylie bythe the lie steam roads according to recent from Chicago which are arc to th the effect that It will vill be tC only a short time before time tho Central Passenger association tion tiomi will be obliged officially to recognize nize the he traction lines hues in their conferences confer confer- regarding passenger rates Another Another An An- other step that thata a Is imminent will be tie for several of time the Ohio and amid Indiana railroads to establish a system of In Interchange in- in of mileage with the elec electric ti-Ic ti roads The consideration of this lik question has already been forced by bytho thin tho Toledo St. St Louis Western which has made arrangements with time the Lake Shore electric road between Cleveland and Toledo so that passengers passengers pas pas- ticketed between Cleveland and amid St Louis will use ruse the electric toad road between Cleveland and Toledo Time The question of recognizing electric railroads as competitors competitor of any consequence conse conse- quence was as not mint regarded as a remote possibility six years ago even In the states where the great Interurban systems are now flOW centered hut but In iii Utah It Is one that already attracts the attention of the passenger departments departments depart depart- ments of the lie local roads rends although the first Utah Interurban electric road is yet to be completed In Iii this uric line It Is the tho opinion of local railroad men although not of officially of- of tIdally expressed that the completion of the Salt Like Ogden railroad with Its extension to Ogden canyon will result in further changes In passenger pas rates between Salt Lake nod and Ogden Just as the tho completion of tho road to has re resulted rc- rc in a competitive round trip rate that Is lower than any other regular rate on either cither the Oregon Short Line or the tho Rio Grande Western West West- era ern In Utah |
