Ogden Daily Standard | 1913-11-04 | Page 3 | Estimates on Charges to be Made by Canal

I ESTIMATES ON CHANGES TO BE MADE BY CANAL j Salt Lake, Nov. 4. Several of the local agents of the eastern railroads and Hie traffic department of Hi Oregon Short Line, the Denver & Rio Grande and tin- Salt Luke route have been asked by eastern traffic managers to give their views upon the matter of the opening ol the Panama cau.il In respect to the handling han-dling of transcontinental traffic. The eastern men are practically unanl-i unanl-i mous in the belief that it will change the traffic may of th United States and they also feel that Boston Instead In-stead of New York will become the greatest seaport on the Atlantic coast. Th Inquiries which have been Bt nt to this city deal with figures relative to how much freight will come into Salt Lake and vicinity 1 from the Pacific coat with the opening open-ing of the canal, which would under the present, conditions be handled by the transcontinental railroads. Ow-Idk Ow-Idk to the harbor In New York being be-ing blockaded with passenger traffic the railroad men tee that Boston Is to become the great freight shipping center Within a few days the local men will have made their estimates and they will be made public oo