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Show RESOLUTIONS FAVOR I BOTH S. P. AND U. P. PROVO, Nov. 15, Representative business men at a luncheon meeting at the Hotel Roberts last night extend-1 ed an invitation to Ihe Union Pacific! officials t0 submit thejr side of the i railroad controversy to the people of Provo at a public meeting William M. Roylance presided at th-meeling th-meeling and explained its object, which, he said, was to obtain the sen timent of those present as to the advisability ad-visability nr calling a meeting of ihe members of the chamber of commerce .for the purpose of hearing the Union jPaciric side of the controversy. Th I majority of those present were op 1 posed to the chamber of commerce , fosteriug a movement to call a meeting meet-ing of its membership, but they favored fa-vored a meeting of the general public in order that the Union Pacific might I present its side of the question to the j citizens of Provo. FAVOR U. P. . I PARK CITY, Nov. 13. A ihe close : of an interesting session of the Tark j i v Commercial club thi? evening th-: organization went on record by a close vote in faTor of Union Pacific control of ihe Central Pacific. The meeting was addressed bv How lard Klliott. edilor of tho Union Pa clflc Magazine, D. R. Grav and Wesley E. King. At the conclusion of the addresses I Charles Moore introduced a resolution , favoring the I nlon Pacific as against ' ihe Southern Pacific. An effort wa made to lay the resolution nn the table ta-ble but ir failed, and the resolution! was finally adopted after considerable diacusslon Ihe resolution reads in; briAf ; "Resolved By the Commercial club that Park City, Utah, goes on record as opposed to any interferenfe with the carrying out ol the decision of the supreme ro.irf of the Doited Stale?,' and under plans being worked out by i the interslate commerce commission' if the Central Pacific is merged with an;, uther line, it he merged with tbej Union Pacific, with which it would form a transcontinental traffic line, competing with all others ' MANTI BACKS M ABLY. MAN'TI. Nov 15. The Manti Com ! mercial club in a resolution adopted j a a if-c-tMi meeting heartily endorsed, the position taiten by Governor Mabey and the bQard 01 covernors of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce recom-l mending ihe control of the Central I Pacific railroad to remain With the' Southern Pacific company The club weni on record as believing that tho I Ogdengatewa) should always remain i open io present oi future railroad lines operating in and through the: stale. The resolution Which follow?, was i addressed to Governor Mabey. "Resolved, That we heartily en dorse the position taken by Governor Mab( J fnd by the board ol governor of the Salt Lake Chamber of Com merce that 'he control and manage ment. of Ihe Central Pacific line, mas much as ii affect" the growth and development de-velopment of 'he Intermountaio sec tion which it traverses, should be re ! tamed by ihe Southern Pacific Railroad Rail-road company as outlined by the tentative tenta-tive plan of the interstate commerce commission as published August 3.)' 1921, as far as ailect? the subject of 1 this controv ersy "Mantl Comnjerclal club, by ;ien v Jensen, president. E P I ox, lecre lary." on |
