Show IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED IN INTHE INTHE THE WEST WESTA A 4 railroad official Is au an for far the lie statement that the Har Harriman riman roads are to spend one million dollars In Ogden before the present campaIgn of improvements In tile the yards ards Is ended This reminds us of E H declaratIon n on his return from Europe lie He was asked ii If Union PacIfic sur srn surplus plus was to be distributed to the tho stockholders In the form of af divIde dividends and he replied No o the thc money moner will go to make needed anti and extensions in the West reSL The West Vest 1 has Mr Harriman to think for this decision and Ogden In particular has reason renson to express appreciation of the tho Harriman polIcy of The Harriman system may mar be ox ex exacting acting exorbitant rates on freight trai lie yet e while the policy of those lines Is one of reinvestment and develop mont the Vest has no serious corn com plaint but let the policy become one of draining this section for the bone bene benet lt t or of Eastern stockholders then the West shall have hac cause to rise en m and resist the tho le levy of af tribute All this region Is In need of more railroads and better railroads such as Harriman has made the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific and the country 15 In having a man like liar Har at the head of affairs who knows ours needs and is laboring to meet them |