Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-08
SALT LAKE ROUTE
OFFICES TO CLOSE
WaShOut Will Force UnWeIeome
Holiday Upon an Army
Of Employees.

That all Offices of the Salt Lake
pair of the road following the washout
will be temporarily closed and the Of
ficials and clerks of the general trafflc
departments forced to take an unwel-
come holiday seems certain from state
ments made locally This Will affect
the Offices in all cities where they are
maintained and particularly in this city
and n Los Angeles and other or the
larger California Salt Lake Route head
quarters. District Freight and Passen-
ger Agent Manderfleld stated to Tho
News this afternoon that the curtail-
ment was imminent. but the details
would not be decided upon for several
days, Whether or not the uptown Of
fees of the company In this city Will be
closed at once, he would not say. From
tho statements made, however 1t up.
pears that all business for the road will
BIO transacted at the depots and the
offices OF the various engineering and
construction departments will be the
only ones maintained on a large scale
All through passengers who bought
their tickets before the disaster, can
have them exchanged for tickets over
the Southern Pacific road at Ogden or
this city. All traffic both passenger
and freight, will for the time be han
died exclusively by the Southern Pact
fc.
CONFERENCE HELD TODAY.
General Manager r. E. Wells of the
Salt Lake Route held long conference
with Vice President Bancroft this
morning. in the latteTs office relative
to traffic matters, but both subsequent
ly said they would mako no state
ments for publication. Mr.. Wells stat
ed early this afternoon. there were no
new developments today, further than
what had already been made known
He had been intending TO go to the
front by tonight's train, but would not
know for q certainty until late in the
afternoon Relative to existing con-
ditionS, Mr.. Wells said. 1T is impoS-
Sible to state just what they are at
this date for we are shut off from all
access to the locality involved. both
by the washouts and the destruction
OF the telegraph lines. We Will not
know where we are until our chief en-
gineer has been over the line He left
Los Angeles this morning with a pack
train for the scene of disaster. and In
the course of a week. he will have trav-
eled over the destroyed line. Then he
Will know just how the situation Is.
and we will have some idea OF what is
to be done"
When asked IL he thought the road
through that section OF the country
would have to be relocated up tho
mountain where the floods could not
reach the track. Mr. Wells said nothing
could be said on that matter now. it
would be entirely speculation. But
the food was certainly the worst that
ever happened in that part of the coun-
try, far more so than the great flood
of 1907. While the road is out of COM
mission on through business. 1t viii be
operated between Modena and Salt
Lake for local traffic.
WAIT ENGINEERS REPORT.
Mr Wells then reiterated what he
had said at first, that until the chief
engineer had completed his survey. no
Information could be given out as to
the future, how many miles OF road
would have to be rebuilt. or how long
1t would take to restore the line where
1t was before the flood AS TO the
curtallment of the Office forces, that
was out of his linc-under the traffic
department, of which Mr.. Mahderfleld
Is In charge at this end.
Mr.. Manderfleid the assistant general
freight and passenger agent, stated
to News representative that the re-
ported curtailment would be made; but
IL was impossible at that time TO state
just what 1t would be. or whether
the uptown Office was 20 be closed for
the time being. 1t Is likely to be Sow
cral DAYS before this Is decided upon
Superintendent Van Housen was seen
at the depot He stated that as far as
he knew traffic would be continued as
usual between this city and Modena
There is a general air OF depressing
and repressing gloom pcrvading tho
Salt Lake Route offices. the only ex-
ception being Mr.. Manderheld who Is
bound to be cheerful.