The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-06
PROSPERITY SURE
J SAYS HARTMAN
Railroad Maynate Talks Poll
TICS and Some Business to
Reporters in Ogden.

IL doesn't matter who is elected presi-
aent at the coming election, the country
VIII prosper just the same" said e. H.
hartman as he sat in his private car
yesterday talking TO newspaper men, The
people are going right along raising grain.
growing fruit and so forth. or course II
may be little severe for while but
the people are becoming more rational
and II cannot last long"
That is the way the railroad magnate
answered question as to what would be
the result in the event of Bryans cleo
ZION next fall He was in a talkatiye
mood and chatted with the reporters as
i Ioms az tne tram was in Ogden. He
laughed when an inquiry was made as TO
MS health in connection with the reports
sent out from Omaha.
1t was pretty warm in Chicago.
guess i have the right TO feel a little in
disposed once in a while. I'm going over
10 California to rest for a month or SO"
he said as his train pulled out at I:iO for
the west.
what there was 10 the report that he was
going TO effect a combination with the,
you'd lines. Turning sharply upon his
tpestioner he<said:
'Dont ask me anything silly You rad
the papers, don't you? | haven't talked
on anything of that sort In New York or
Chlcago and there is no reason why you
should expect me to talk on it here. /
can't afford to pay any attention to such
foolish subjects
Talking on existing conditions of the
railroad world he said that in 1905 he told
President Roosevelt that il was wrong to
give the interstate commerce commission
so much power without giving the rail-
roads any protection. "Since that time"
ne said they have come to realize that l
was right. In all the messages TO congress
you could see where they were reaching
out In that direction and at the present
time they are cropping around in the dark
and don't know where they are at The
people are becoming more rational these
days and things have to be conducted on
more conservative basis. These erratic
acts work no good for anyone Like every
thing else. these matters will adjust them
selves in time.
Traffic is not nearly as good as IL was
last year. In spots II may be just as good.
but it is not general Like the financial
situation, traffic conditions are gradual
~ resuming normal shape. Money in the
east is easier for those who can furnish
the necessary securities. but for those who
cannot furnish securities it is just as tight
as heretofore. However. 1 believe the
general condition OF the money market is
gradually improving all the time. We
have been making some improvements
along the system all the time but not to
the extent we would like. Our intention
is to increase the Improvement work as
fast as we can secure the money"
BY way of illustration as to what crop
conditions are in the middle west Mr.
Hartman said:
Il was asleep when we passed through
Iowa. but ] saw what was going on in
Nebraska. I told Mr.. Kruttschnitt to pre-
pare to ship pianos and automobiles out
there as ! thought the people there would
need more of them than anything else this
year"
Mr.. Hartman was accompanied as far
as Ogden by Vice President and General
Manager A. l. Mohler of the Union Pa
cific. At Ogden he was met by General
Manager w. II. Bancroft OF the Short
Line. who accompanied him west.