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Show Utah Business Conditions Sound It is Declared A large number of western railroad officials meeting in Salt Lake thia week, declared that business condi- tians in Utah were fundamentally sound and that while traffic has not been as great as anticipated, the future fu-ture is bright Among those present were: . Harry M. Adams, president of the Western Pacific arrived in Salt Lake Thursday wfth a delegation of W. P. men. , F. W. Robinson, vice president of the Union Pacific in charge of traffic, traf-fic, and several other U. P. men Joined Join-ed the party of Prest Carl R. Gray here Thursday. President Gray was in Salt Lake Wednesday also. F. C. Lathrop," assistant passenger traffic manager of the Southern Pacific railroad, rail-road, San Francisco, arrived here on business Thursday also. During the course of their interview with the press, Mr. Lathrop made the following interesting observation: That his railroad has reached the conclusion that the day of the railroad rail-road so far as handling short haul passenger business is gone, so the Southern Pacific is beginning to place bus lines on branches leading to main lines, in Oregon and California. Busses have already begun operation opera-tion for the company in Oregon and they will soon be placed in service in California. Better and more frequent service can be given at less expense by using busses, he said. Mr. Lathrop also predicted that the time will come when all railroads will be using busses for their short haul business. The long haul business, outside of a 200-mile radius of large central station, is safe for the railroads, he said, but there- will have to be considerable con-siderable speeding up of schedules to hold the business. |