Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-05-20 | Page 4 | One Billion for Railroads

I ONE BILLION FOR RAILROADS. When Secretary McAdoo made pro-ripions pro-ripions for f-pending one billion dollars dol-lars on railroad improvements, he displayed dis-played pxrrllont Judgment. Of that large fund. $30,397,000 enrs fo the- Union Pacific. $29,432,000 to the Southern Pacific. $2,848,000 to the D. & R. G.. and $1,870,000 to the Los An-gIei An-gIei & Salt Lake. Tart of the sixty million dollars allotted al-lotted to the Union Pacific and Southern South-ern Pacific for additions, betterments and equipment should be expended in the local yards, which, in periods of congestion in the past, have been one it the weak links in the transcontinental transconti-nental chain of traffic. oo