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Show CITIES AFFECTED BY FLOODS. Tlic newspapers of Salt Lake estimate that the hotels of that . city and other business places have lost $350,000 by the floods, beginning begin-ning with the one that destroyed the Los Angeles route. They claim that Salt Lake is suffering a loss that promises to total over half a million dollars before the restoration of railroad traffic. If that is a correct estimate, then Salt Lake is more severely injured in-jured than the Southern Pacific physically has been by the floods in Humboldt valley, Nevada. The worst damage to the railroad is the seventeen miles in Palisade canyon, and, if that stretch of road had to be entirely rebuilt, the expense would not be much over $20,000 a mile, or a total of $340,000. The most serious damage, of course, is not in the roadbed, but in the loss of traffic. The Southern South-ern Pacific has been completely blocked for nearly two weeks and it will be another week or more before through trains can be operated, which means that nearly one month's business has been lost, or one-twelfth of a revenue which aggregates millions in the course of a fear. Cities like Salt Lake, which depend in part on tourist trade to keep business alive, are sensitive to the interruption of rail communication, com-munication, and at such times experience a slump which, if long continued con-tinued presents a serious problem. Los Angeles is another tourist point which is experiencing a period of extreme dullness because of the blocking of passenger travel. Ogden, because it does not depend to any great extent on sight-eeer3, sight-eeer3, although a railroad center, has suffered but little from flood conditions on the railroads out of here. The greatest loss has been ttiat inflicted on the railroad men who have been taking an enforced vacation, although a big percentage of the trainmen arc now doing duty on the work trains employed in repairing the damaged tracks, j |