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Show A. L. MOHLER HEAD OF THE U.P. V SAYS IMPROVEMENTS WILL COME TO THIS CITY. But Yards Will Not Be Transferred to Union Pacific Cut-off Will Not Be Built. General Manager A. L. Mohler of the Union Pacific system arrived from the east on the fast mall train this afternoon and, in reply to various questions ques-tions submitted by .1 Standard reporter report-er who Invaded hi private car at the Union Depot, said: "My trip to Ogden at this time has no significance whatever, and I am simply out here to rest up and to meet old friends personally and enjoy a brief vacation after several months of bard work. I am going out over the cut-off this afternoon and, when return, re-turn, will spend a day or perhaps two with friends In Ogden and Salt Lake. I havo not slent much time in this section for several years and am simply simp-ly taking a day ofT, as It were, from railroad business. ' "No, there Ia absolutely nothing to cay in reference to the alleged Weber canyon cut-off, and that project Is not likely to occupy the attention of Union Un-ion Pacific officials in the near future. Like other propositions advanced along those lines, the question is a dead Issue at this time and Is not likely to be resurrected. In tho immediate immed-iate future at least. We are making needed improvements all along the. lino between! Omaha and Ogden and this work will be continued according to plans outlined and approved by President Harriman and those in authority. au-thority. "1 tell ou frankly I know of no radical changes ofyiny character being be-ing thought of or even remotely contemplated. con-templated. "So far as the Union Pacific taking over terminal facilities at Ogden is concerned, I do not apprehend any change of that nature at present or In the Immediate future. The Southern Pacific and Oregon Short Line Interests Inter-ests dominate here, and Mr. Bancroft Ban-croft la In a position to haudle terminal ter-minal matters more satisfactorily than anyone elfee. He is thoroughly familiar famil-iar with the situation, and the present pres-ent arrangements are quite satisfactory satisfac-tory to everyone connected with the Union Pacific management. "I seo that important. Improvements are mapped out and being carried tn completion at. Ogden, and I am glad of 11. This city is a natural railroad center cen-ter and l regarded by ruilroad men as one of the several more Important cities between Omaha and San Francisco. Fran-cisco. It will always remain so, and, as a very natural result, the facilities here will have to be enlarged and improved im-proved In order to handle the Increasing Increas-ing business of the Harriman lines centering here." 1 |
