The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-03-26
5. P. PRESIDENT
BACK FROM EAST

Declaring that, with the promise of
abundant crops, the Pacific coast
states should forge ahead and help 10
get prosperity started once more,
President VIM. Sproule, of the South
ern Pacific company, returned from
New York Thursday as optimistic as
ever in regard to conditions in gen.
eral. Sproule's visit to New York
ws of no particular significance, it
being part of the natural routine Of
his work to be in the east at least
twice a year.
Preparations for the suit to sepa-
rate the Central Pacific from the
Southern Pacififc,' said Sproule,.
care being handled here, recognizing
that the suit is not merely question
for the railroad company, but one
that touches to very important de-
gree the maternal prosperity of the
Pacific coast states. We have
strong desire to cooperate fully with
the commercial bodies and the state
authorities who have shown so keen
and interest in the suit and desire to
cooperate with the company. For my
self, ! cannot help feeling that the
suit has been brought under grave
misapprehension and that this will
develop quickly as the case proceeds.
We appreciate very fully the spirited
attitude of the communities we serve
and wish to reciproeate their cor
dialty in working out the suit with
them, but we are confident that there
will be favorable conclusion. The
answer to the complaint of the gov
ernment will be filed as soon as coun-
sci are ready
"Like all other railroads in the
United States, we are chiefly engaged
| at present in an effort to cut our cost
| according to our CLOTH Railroad earn
| ings generally are so poor, their un-
avoidable expenses so high and busi-
ness throughout the nation so pros
trate, that it takes an optimist to
maintain the belief that this condi-
| tion will pass with this winter, which
has just begun to smile into spring.
believe we of the Pacific coast are
more hopeful than the states to the
east of us, and without being a
prophet, / cannot resist the belief
| that with the promise We have of
abundant crops on this coast we should
forge ahead and help to, get pros
perity started once more. 1t largely
rests with the president of the United
States, and it is encouraging to know
that he is intensely interested in the
problem of restoring prosperity If
he solves it. this nation should go
bounding beyond our expectations.
"As for California travel, this year
it is dull because people every where
are saving up to come to California
next year for the exposition. Travel
throughout the east is dull, too Such
lines as the Pennsylvania and the New
York Central are cutting down their
passenger train service materially be-
cause there is diminished public de-
mand for such service. The overland
lines serving California find similar
lack of patronage. The lines general
ly are doing more work for less money
| than ever before, with a consequent
decline in net earnings and decrease
in their ability to employ labor. When
we can put all the men back to work,
other lines of industry will be able to
do the same and there will be no army
of the unemployed excepting those
who have no wish to be employed. The
man who desires work and is accus-
toned to it, but who is pithout en-
ployment because of the shrinkage of
business, has tn edeepest sympathy of
every good citiden and it is our duty
to do all we can toward putting him
to work 1t has now become a ma
tional problem which can be solved
only by the resumption of business
activity and not hesitatingly.'