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Show EXPERTS K TO IS CITY A Washington dispatch says: Examiners Ex-aminers from the interstate commerce com-merce commission arn going to Salt Lake and Ogden to examine the books ul the Oitgon Short Line, Oregon Navigation company. Southern. Par'-flc, Par'-flc, Union Pacific and San Pedro, Li:; Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad cou-p.mles. cou-p.mles. The information to be gatii- red Is for uae of th-? commission !u determining necessity for and reasonableness reason-ableness of advanced freight schedulers sched-ulers recently filed by western rail-toads rail-toads nd suspended pending investigation investi-gation by the commission. All those suspensions became op e-rativo today. Most of the railroad.-; affected voluntarily notified the commission com-mission of the suspension until. November No-vember 1. according to agreement. Where the railroads failed to gi such notice, the commission, through. Chairman Knapp, issued an order of suspension. 1 The examiners have started on their ir vestlgatlons. Chief Accountant Lutz of the commission has been in conference for two days with repre-sentallves repre-sentallves of the Harriman and Hill lines. These railroads announce co-e-peratlon with the commission ami ties-ire accurate Information, as to exactly ex-actly what books are needed. Mr. Lutz will take fifty examiners thM week to Chicago and St. Paul to work on the books of those two systems. Other examiners will go to Salt Lake, uacbing there in September. Work on the books of the Denver & Rto j Crande win start this week. |