The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-07-26
Railroad Officials Visit Here
Promise To Come Again Later

q schedule to work to, and we will be
e gin at once After brief talk a
t this place by President Gray, we will
t start on the trip. President Ora
, will ride with w. F. Bergman an
= party; H. v. Plat, the genera
manager of the Short Line, will rid
, with Cecil Clark and his party. E
, E. Calvin, the vice president of thu
!, Short Line will ride with Byrd Tregt
} and his party. J. A. Reeves, the
, general freight agent of the Shor
i, Line will ride with Frank Sorgati
/ and his party. H. M. Adams, vice
: president in charge of traffic, viii
, ride with H. c. Tavey and party. G
H. Smith, the general attorney for
the Short Line will ride with C. S
Beebe and party. R. E. Brooks, the
superintendent of the Montana
division, will ride with Neil F. Boyle
and party DR.. Roeder, of Omaha
will ride with DR.. c. A. Hoover and
/ party. Joel L. Priest, commercial
agent for the Short Line will ride
with F. E. Seeger and party. Mark
Austin of the Utah-Idaho Sugar COM
pany, will ride with Judge Ralph
Adair and party. D. S. Spencer, the
| S6u0l dl pdOScASSI d60AL LII ClC
Short Line, was detained in the
Yellowstone park, and l voice the
regrets of our community when I say
that it is a disappointment not to
have him with us"
| The company left Firth on
schedule time, APO, and made it's
| first stop at the stock farm of Eric
Sundquist, where they looked over
the herd of registered and pure bred
Jersey red hogs and some fine horses
and cows. President Gray was much
interested, and fingered to talk with
Mr.. Sundquist, after Mr.. Bergman
got into his car to go. Mr.. Gray
wanted to know if Mr.. Sundquist
raised enough to feed his stock or
did he have to buy the raw materials
for his factory" And Mr.. Sundquist
answered yes and no. He raises
sufficient quantity to feed his stock,
but in practice he sells it and buys
again for them. Why does he sell
and buy again of his neighbors?
Well, most of his crops are certified
stuff, and neighbors and others bid
up on his certified seed so he can
afford to accept their offers or sell
at market prices for his high class
grains and potatoes and pay the
market price for the common grain
to feed his stock. Mr.. Gray found
that the first farmer he met in Bing-
ham county was producing raw ma
teria1s for market and buying raw
materials for his factory this be-
ing at once a violationof and in har-
many with the ethics of good farm
ing as 1t is preached. Here was q
man who had plenty of land, plenty
of water, plenty OF stock, and things
about the place looked prosperous.
Sundquist himself looked like he was
Well fed and happy, and the Scan
dinavian name fitted in with the
thrifty look of the place. Mr.. Grayl
wanted to stay little longer.
The next stop was made at thel
Charlie Taylor farm at Rose, and Mr..
Gray's talk there as at other places
was neighborly, brotherly, and >sensi-
BILE. He spoke Of railrOading, and of ,
It's problems; of how they are gov :
erned by law, and restrained from ]
doing some things and required by ]
law to do others, which as applied to .
most lines Of business would be left
10 the discretion of the owner or ]
owners or the management. A rail- ]
road company Is required to furnish
certain service and the public, thru
is laws and commissions, tells them !
What they may collect for the SER {
vice. They must buy goods and ]
abor Of the public and pay the ]
market price, and they must pay 1t {
n cash and open no credit accounts. ]
They must keep their credit good, {
Keep their road good and keep the l
'ervice good, and these times have {
lept railroad management as per- 4
)lexed as the farmers and stOckmen. {
We are all pretty much alike, only {
We are in different lines of business, T
md we do not always understand the +
ther fellows problems, and for pur- \
'Oses OF harmonizing our views 1t T
you'd be to our mutual advantage F
o see more of each other and look F
t things oftener from the other fell f
ows' side OF the question. He and +
is associates are managing the n
ctivities of railroad system that A
, owned by the people. A system I
hat has more stockholders than 1t G
as employees. Has one owner for n
ach employee, and few OwnersI N
esides. The owners are our own! r
ountrymen; the employees are our Y
the managers are J
1osen from American homes; the %
Dad serves ourselves and our fellow r
when 1t prospers, these A
j share in that prosperity, these n
hen 1t suffers, these all suffer with I.
The things that make railroad v
'osper are the things that make the G.
,Ople prosper, and vice versa. II H
.ilroad people have taken the view O
at the people were something B.
'art, it was an error. If the peo- R
e have taken the view that the W
ilroad company is thing apart, E
something to be opposed or If
'alt harshly with, it was an error. M
le good of all is the good of each, Ii
ID the good of each becomes thet Pl
and total that constitutes the total e,
advantages. The whole public, ].
lated and bound together in it's I'll
tivities, has its world of problems II,
st now, and our best way out of L.
r dilemma is to reach the common! F.
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