Show Three Quarters of a Million Dollars Spent During Year by Ogden Traction Company CONFIDENCE IN FUTURE Superintendent Says Company Is Not Philanthropic But Keeping Abreast With Times Ogden Nov 25 One might ask why the Ogden Transit company has expended about past year or so In its street car system Superintendent Joseph Bailor answers that It is because the stockholders stock stock- holders and directors have confidence n in the local situation and believe that they cart can see as is a result of these theae heavy expenditures profits in proportion to the Investments it is not entirely from a philan standpoint that tho Ogden Rapid Transit Ti company has spent this money said Mr Bailey but it Is a clear in indication in- in that the board of directors are satisfied with time the outlook and believe that In extending the company's lines not only will Immediate returns bo be realized but the tho Improved will assist materially In develop develop- ing the tho latent resources of the district and with this development and Us its attendant at at- at Increase In population will come the future profits Among the recent Improvement made by the tho street car company Is the tha extension of time the Ogden canyon line front from the mouth of or tho tito canyon to m a point just above the Hermitage a die dis lance tance of three and a quarter miles This cost In the neighborhood of and the expenditure appears justified when the tho records show an average of 1000 z a day ilay during during- time the summer season As many as people have been car car- nod ried to the thc Hermitage In a single day The busy months are June July August Aug Aug- and September The extension makes j. a total of five and one 1 half miles from Washington avenue or nevea miles from the Union eta sta tion The Plain City extension nine mile In extent beginning at Five he Points cost Five miles of this road between the brick yard an ana Plain City Is now operated by steam The passenger traffic has thus fari farj failed to pay on the Investment butt pounds of sugar beets beeta wet hauled over the line lino this year which must be considered a substantial item and would justify In iii a way the con con- of the extension rIme Tho North Ogden line Is he not par par- a paying proposition from a passenger standpoint but carloads of cf fruit and pounds of sugar sugar- beets were ivere hauled this year which Is sufficient Inducement for the company corn com pan pany to continuo continue operating the lisle line The Tho City extension seventeen seven coven teen and one half miles In length from station cost a quarter ofa of ofa a million dollars and has averaged passengers a a. day since the tho opening o othe of the road nearly a year ago New equipment Including new cars motors generators and an electric lo locomotive 10 cost the company this year and to this expenditure can bo be added tIme tho extensive Improvements at Glenwood park and the Hermitage ermitage resort ra- ra sort the tho Twenty fifth street extension and the Wall avenue extension In addition to these Improvements the company Is contemplating the tho early completion on of an extension of the canyon can can- yon yen line to Huntsville which will re require rt- rt quire eight miles of new track at a cost of from to |