Show I 1 BANCROfT MAKES MAKS Al DEN Al AlNo No Thought of a Cutoff to the Disadvantage of Ogden Many Miles of Steel to be Laid in the Ogden Yards and Ex Extensive Extensive Building in Will Be Nelay i I rr 1 General I W H 11 Bancroft a cOt of the Oregon Short Line system hy by Private Secretary ta hoeker General FreIght Agent Reeves anti Assistant General Freight Agent Plaisted arrived d from Salt Lake this thin morning In the private car 1 1903 0 nn and left fur fill Chicago on delayed No o 10 at 1 While nil 1 of these om dials wore reticent regarding business matters carrying them to Harriman headquarters III the Windy Wind CIt City nt at this time It Is generally assumed b by mn men that the east Rt Is be beIng being Ing made In connection with western and northwestern freight rate com cony complaints plaints now being investigated lIy by the tho Interstate Commerce commission When a Standard representative invaded In the railroad private car attach attached ed cd to the eastbound trait train at the th Union Depot General Manago Bancroft was found In excellent humor Smiling to himself and wading through a pile pilo oi of reports which had just been received rr from lm various departments of the Short Line system Bancroft said the reporter the tho people of Ogden would like to know through the Standard how soon active will be inaugurated on the Improvements mapped out and author luthor authorized for this city cJ t Ca California la newspapers notably tho ho Palo Alto Tribune TrI bune have recently published articles to the effect that the Harriman man management management had decided to build ull a cut oft from Evanston to to e establish terminals at time tho latter I point which are arc to 10 cost In thc llie neigh neighborhood or of cutting out Og Ogden den as far as possible as a great rail railroad railroad road center and naturally and mater materially Injuring the growing interests and prosperity of this city This latter story ItOI Is ne new to me said General Manager Bancroft and newspaper articles or 01 rumors to that effect are absolutely and unqualifiedly without foundation In n fact I 1 am unable to understand un Why I stories of that nature are l published or given circulation Do you OU suppose sc I that such a proposition as this cutoff cut I off were wee entertained at t this time that the Harriman n management would even een contemplate malting making local improve improvements I ments that thal are to cost hundreds of oC thousands of dollars No sir the Standard may assure asure the people of Og I h I e den n that this last st story is 16 without the lime color colo of truth ring and the elest non lion 1 The Important and permanent Im mapped out and eel cd for Ogden b by the Hardman management man are to go forward from this i I time on without unnecessary dela delay The question or of the erection or of the uio now new freight rel hl depot Is now In the hands I of Judge Parley V Williams and evI ev I rel relating thereto will he be set lied fled within a lively short lime rime rho plans for rOI the theother other buildings are no now being pot pe at as fast rast as possible and all will wll willbe he be approved In time tho near future I All improvements o of this ter lel are of an and perma permanent nent nature and cannot he concluded In a da day a week weel or a month Every detail mu must t ho thoroughly gone gono into and this requires time Ume and conserva tI live 0 consideration But matters arc closing up nicely at this time lime and the real work will now be taken up as quickly as possible We Ve n ed additional yard facilities here to handle time the increasing traffic and will la lay about miles or of new steel In th the Ogden yards within the next few months The steel has been ordered and work worl will ill she he commenced even een before the new rails no now on the way 1 arrive arrhe The first of this work wl rill 1 Include new passenger train tracks west of the depot and the I grading for fOl these will begin within Il a very cry short The rearrange rearrangement i ment of time the yards ranIs will follow as 18 fast Cast I I as possible and the great grett work out I lineal will wll keep a large force of men employee employed during the fall winter and I spring months I One hundred and lOd twenty miles of I i I revs new steel to be laid In the Ogden yards will give gie people some conception of the big tasK ahead and this work Is entirely aside from the various new buildings that are arc to be o com can strutted lIy by time the Harriman manage manago I ment In this elt city There ha haw been no obstructive pol polIcy policy Icy In the plans alread already approved and t I there will ue be none In iii time the future The I I Standard cnn can make mako this declaration i authoritatively and the people of Og Ogen Ogden den en can rest assured the work worle will wll begin In the very vcr near future and be to completion as fast Cast as 1 pos possible sible |