Show MR WESTERN WORK telegram there is hardly an eastern newspaper that has not a dally fling at mr hariman in high finance ho may have played some royal games most men with his opportunities and do not forget that he made the opportunities would tried to imitate bis work but wo are not considering that today them is another point of view some six or seven years ago h acquired the control of tap union and southern pacific railroads both were loaded down with debts and neither amounted to very much more than a streak of rusty steel and right ot way they had evidently both been worked by the old owners with the idea of milking them to the limit and then turning the wreck over to the government when the bonded indebtedness tell due since then mr har alman has spent about upon them in relaying track with heavy rails reducing grades and curves and in adding rolling stock we lienk he made the mistake of other railroad men he did not in places af least kept the railroad solid enough to support the tremendous locomotives and heavy trains that havo been substituted tor the old rolling stock but suppose the roads had been carried on during the years as they were for the six years before be took hold kind of a fix would we be in now the rio grande would be about our only dependence and the coal shortage last winter would have been a famine sue enough the situation will be relieved when the ban desro completes ts repairs and the western pacific comes with its relief and within a couple of years the road ought to be herc but the union and southern pacific roads ought to be double tracked at once and the work would have been begun before Ws except that the raised by the eastern press has mada it impossible notwithstanding the unparalleled business that has been crowded upon western railroads for their managers borrow the conoy to make the heavy freighters over the union and southen pacific are unanimous in expressing the opinion that except for what mr harraman Harrl man has done for these roads there would now be a congestion in traffic that would cripple halt salt lake in this connection it may be stated after a full hearing tho interstate commission has made a most conservative report on the management the only harsh word jn it la in reference to the chicago alton deal which the commission designates as indefensible finan ciering which is an indication that even the administration boa learned the fact that an indiscriminate warfare upon a great railroad is table to cause more loss to tue patrons of the road than to the directors of th railroad company |