Show WASHOUT ASHOUT COSTS ZION lION 1000 DAY Passengers Passing Up Salt Lake City and Business Comes Through Ogden Salt Lake Lako Feb 12 A conference of or vital Importance to the future policy and reconsideration ot of t the tho Salt Lake route will be held In the the office ot of Wil William WIllIom liam Ilam H Bancroft In this city some somo sometime time tomorrow III At Al the conference will be bo William WilliamH H Bancroft first vice president of the Salt Lake route J ROBS Ross Clark Clork sec second ond end vice v president of the road R n E B EWells ETe Wells Te II s general manager E P G Tilton chief engineer of the road read Carl Stradley locating engineer for the Harriman Harrimon system Engineer or of the Salt SaIl Lake route and probably officers one or two other railroad Vice President Clark cl rk and General Manager Wells left loft Los I s Angeles last night eight and are arc due to reach this city tomorrow While no definite Information information tion LIon has hns given out it is understood that the engineers who returned to this city two days ago after an In Inspection of the thc two new possible routes will bo be ready road to make a arc re ro report port at al the conference tomorrow While this report maj not bo be as full fullas fullas fullas as one ono that will be later lator sent to New NewYork NewYork York It Is understood that It will give a working basis for the officers of or the tho company and that something definite may mar be decided on as ns a result of tho the conference Local railroad men say that every evory everyday everyday day that the Salt SnIt Lake route is out of or commission means a n loss of ap proximately proximate 1000 to Salt Lake City alone llone A large largo item In fu this is the sal arles cries paid to men who had their homes and families in this city Local cal hotel men are feeling every day the result of the washout Tourists who formerly passed through and stopped for one ono or more days in this city on I their way to and from southern Cali California California fornia fornin are now either taking the i southern route or are going via Og Ogden I Iden den without paying a visit Isil to this city It is estimated that thal such visitors tors spent on an average of 10 a aday ada aday day da each during their stop in this city In addition to this tho the city elt Is losing by the fact that fruits and vege ege vegetables vegetables I tables which formerly were shipped In carload lots via tho the Salt SaIt Lake Lalio route are now coming in small express shipments over the tho Southern Pacific P i |