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Show UNION PACIFIC HEAD i PREDICTS FREIGHT RATE ADVANCE With the turning back of the Union Pacific system to private control on Murch 1, no radical development or chauges will be made, according to President Carl R. Gray, who with ; other members of the railroad party will be Ihe guests of the Ogden Chamber Cham-ber of Commerco this afternoon and ovenlng. Officials or the Oregon Short Liu will retain their positions, he stated in Salt Lake. With the roads going from government to private control on I March 1 the rates of the roads will i be increased, he said. President Gray said the Union Pacific Pa-cific lines are in first class condi.ion. Included in the parly with President Presi-dent Gray arc the following: II. M. Adams, ice president in charge of traffic; J. L. Haugh, assistant lo the president; E. E. Calvin, vice president in charge of operation and federal manager of the western roads; E. E. Adams, consulting engineer of the Union Pacific system; Guy Adams, nml traffic manager; R. L. Huntley, chief engineer of the Union Pacific. President Ofay and other members of the party will address the members mem-bers of the Ogden Chamber of Commerce Com-merce at the dinner which win be served in their honor at S o'clock tonight. to-night. President Warren L. Wattis of the Weber club will preside at the dinner.: The members of tho railroad party i will c'eparl for the east tonight. oo |