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Show h Bancroft Really Loves Cache But Italian Hirelings Won't Work, and What Can the Poor Man Do? Following the gentle raps Tits Republican Re-publican gave the O. S. L. station at v Caohe Junction, Pres. M.' J. Ballard, of tho Commercial Club, got Into touch ' with the O. S. L. officials. A reply from General Manager Bancroft Is of no little Interest, and follows: June 29th, 1907. Hon. Melvin J. Ballard, President; the Cache Commercial Club, Logan, Utah. ' My Dear Mr. Ballard: I have your letter of June 27th, and contents noted. I fully realize the fact that we have not the accommodations ac-commodations at Cache Junction that we should have, and our idea has been to put up a suitable depot there for the accommodation accommoda-tion of passengers, independent of facilities for handling the freight, "but we have been so hampered on account of inability to get materials mater-ials and the shortage pf labor, that a great many more iraport-ant iraport-ant pieces of work that we have been trying to get finished have been seriously retarded, and of course, under these conditions, we saw the futility of laying out additional work for this year. However, I have given orders this morning to have this depot) matter looked over with view to providing more room - at that J) r place for the accommodation of. passengers. With reference to the last , clause of your letter regarding the cut-off to Logan: The same conditions as those mentioned above apply to the proposed construction con-struction of this line, and it has been out pf the question for us to attempt to do anything to this. To illustrate, we have been two years and a half trying to buid the National Park line, and I doubt if we will be able to finish it this year, simply because we cannot get the necessary material and labor. I am now bringing laborers all the way from New York City in order to meet our requirements, as well as from other eastern points. We now have 197 Kalians Kal-ians en route from Chicago, and if ten per cent of these men go to work when they get out here, it will be more than most of the me'n secured in the east have done. Wo took some 434 men out o Nevada recently to put them to work on the track out thero and everyone of them went right on through to San, Francisco. I merely mention this to you to show the conditions we have to contend with. As Boon as the atmosphere clears sufficiently to let us know what we can do in regard to labor and material, I propose to again take up the matter of building the Logan Cut-off, as well as doing a number num-ber of other things for the improvement im-provement of our facilities in the Cache Valley, and in the meantime, mean-time, I hope that you and the good people of your section vjill realize what-wc are and have been up against and bear patiently patient-ly with us a little while longer until conditions improve. With best wishes, I am, yours very truly, W.' II. BANCROFT. |