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Show OCWEN ritESENTS H13II CASE. The Ilenrlng by the llnllroad Officials of that City's Claims. Ogden, Peb. 10 At noon today President Presi-dent rturt nnd Chief I3nglncer lterry nf tho, Union Paclllc and Oencrnl Manager Knittschnltt nnd Chief Engineer Hood of tho Bouthern Pacific met tho committee commit-tee of Ogden business men In room 9 In tho Union depot. Tho Ogden commit-leo commit-leo wa composed of David llccles, I'rod I, Klesel, Joseph Scow ci oft, M, S Drowning, John Watson, Thomas 1. Deo and A. T. Wright. All newspaper men weio birred nnd tho dooi carefully guarded to see. Unit no ' news gntherer ' got nn Inkling of whnt toclc place. Tho meeting lasted nbnut two hours, and nfterwnid novernl of tho cominltteo weio seen, but woull say nothing further than that "Wo had a pleas mt meet Ing," which hnd a sound of previous u(,reement General Manager Kruttsehnltt, however, how-ever, was moro gracious to tho re porter, nnd received them in his prl vnto car and treated them with the ut most cordlnllt To The Tribune be state 1 that the Ogden gentlemen hnd presented n full and complete review of their case and bad presented man facts nnd figures to them which they would tnko under consideration As an Important one he stntel that they had given thAm some valuable Information ns to the Hue ttmtlon of tho waters of Oreat Salt lake, Its maximum and minimum height at different per'ods of the ear, nnd n table showing the gra datlons of the lako level All th!, Mr Kruttsehnltt and hi nssoclates woull tabulate with the results of the t?alt l.ake meeting nnd forward Immediately to Mr llarrlman. llo could not tell when the de lIon would be reached hut It would not Interfere with the bids fm the work from Ogden to tho lake It nlwios takes them about ten dns or two weeks to exnmlne the bids befoie the contract 1 awarded and thl matter would llkel be settled before that time Mr. Kruttsihnltt was nsked If a com plcto survey had been made of the southern route nnd replied Hint It bid I before the bike route laid been decided upon He wns nsked whether, If th'j should tnke the southern route thej would then come from Salt Lake to Ogden. Og-den. or would a cut-nff from Die rnnltn! nen, or would a cut-off from the capital city to L'oho leave Ogden oft the line. Ho replied that ho did not believe the I.cho cut-off wns feasible. The inllioid magnates left for Halt Lake nt S 10 v la the Oregon Short Line Mr. Kruttsehnltt said he we'd return In the evening, nnd In company with Mr. Hood, proceed on westward, while Mr, Hurt and Mr. Berry would return to Omaha. A SATISPACTOIIY SHOWING. Late last evening one of 'the members of the citizens' committee stnted that Messrs Lecle and Klesel had presented present-ed Ogden s ease to tho committee The elnboiatet moro particularly on the fluctuation of tho water level ns above noticed Mr Hurt nsked the speakers n number of questions but In ench cise wi met with n satisfactory nnswer, ut least to tbo mind of tho business nien In conversation with Vlcc-Picsldent Kruttsehnltt he dropped tho remark to the effect tint the Union Pacific company com-pany wns prepailng to do simo extensive ex-tensive Improvement work through Weber canyon This lemark taken with hi statement that tho Ilcho-Snlt Lake cutoff was not feasible nnd In bis decided opinion would not bo built. Is looked upon hero to me in tint no change will be mndo In tfie original plan of tho Ogden-Lucln cutoff. |