Show PRESENT arrangements ARE BUILDING UP RIO GRANDE passengers dislike frequent change of cars change will benefit this city from thursdays standard the salt lake san pedro los angeles railroad will within a short time have its eastern terminus in ogden the authority for the above statement Is a prominent railroad official who la in touch with both of the roads interested in the arrangement the oregon short line and the san pedro los angeles by which the latter road is to come to this city from salt lake over tho tracks of the former road the official further stated that already negotiations had been in progress and were practically completed by which this city Is to become the eastern terminus of the dark road in support of the statements that were unqualified the official pointed to the fact that a large proportion of the short line business to salt lake was in transferring passengers from the east to the san pedro road with through passengers from the east the alark road is becoming popular and the passengers object to being obliged to change trains twice in such a short distance entailing as it does much trouble and vork tor passengers and train men alike it has been known for some time that the san pedro officials were considering si making their eastern terminus this city but nothing authoritative could be learned on the subject although the fact that the road had not built shops in salt lake and were using the short line shops and depot in that city was evidence that the officials of the road were not satisfied wath salt lake as the end of the road with the coining of the san pedro to ogden will come new shops a larger force of pullman employed emp loyes and a great increase in the number of railroad men who make this city their headquarters salt lake will simply be a station on the san pedro this move on the part of the san pedro will greatly increase the business done by that system and will greatly facilitate the handling of traffic a fact that has had great weight in the decision that has been reached in making ogden the terminus of tho road another railroad official who Is not connected with either of the roads said that he had known that the san pedro was to start from this city and that their reason tor so doing was to catch the business now being done by the rio grande western for the san pedro which was in excess of the business now being dona b the short line he pointed to the fact that the short line and the san pedro were owned by moi who were and who wera interested in floth roads and who not in harmony with the gould system the balc calc al referred to also that lia that it the san delro tiaona started from ogden that tho freight nt of that road woud be to this city a 3 at present much of the freight for til san pedro corid caires in to this city ind has to be headed twice onoe in ogden and aaen in salt lake it Is expected that the change in the terminus of the road will be made before winter 5 for a live coyote call on D A smyth european hotel ogden |