Show ANENT THE UNION PACIFIC president burl has a conference with president burt the nion pacific people are very friendly toward but they ex hect to do nothing for some time burt will come to ogden president shurtliff has returned aiom omaha where be went in the interests of the closing up of tho end of the exposition and incidentally ho looked up the matter 0 the intentions tent ions ot the union pacific toward ogden and the prospects of any improvements prove ments or additions to their forces here about a year ago when general manager dickinson was in ogden he was met hy a committee 0 tho city government and tho weber club and the conference was most satisfactory and since then there have been other conferences which developed the fact that the company realized the importance of this point as a railroad center and proposed later to do considerable work here at the more recent conference between mr shurtliff and ho officers of the company president burt was present and the talk further developed the fact of their friendliness mr shurtliff says that mr burt stated that they had not decided as yet what they would do they were cutting down their chop force bad cut out the laramie shops and otherwise curtailed expenses but the large and steadily growing business of the company might compel them to enlarge their chop facilities president burt expresses the desire to come out to ogden and remain a week or more looking thoroughly into the details of the situation and the intention of so doing later everything about the conference suggested the close friendliness of this company for this city and in case president burt does come out the result cannot be otherwise than beneficial to this city |