Railway Mail Pay-Short Lines; Hearings Before the Committee on the Post Offices and Post Roads, United States Congress, Sixty-Fourth Congress, First S

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1916 Excerpt: ... United States Senate, Committee On Post Offices And Post Roads, Washington, D. C. The committee met at 10.30 o'clock a. m., pursuant to call, Senator John H. Bankhead presiding. Present: Senators Bankhead (chairman), Smith of South Carolina, Swanson, Martine of New Jersey, Vardaman, Hardwick, Beckham, Penrose, Townsend, Catron, Weeks, Sterling, and McLean. The Chairman. You may proceed, Mr. Swobe. STATEMENT OF MR. D. M. SWOBE, VICE PRESIDENT McCIOUD KIVEK RAILROAD AND PRESIDENT WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF SHORT LINE RAILROADS. Mr. Swobe. The Western Association of Short Line Railroads, of which I am the president, represents the small independent railroads operating in the 11 Western States. Our witnesses who are members and who will testify on the mail pay question before your committee are selected from the various sections of the West, and will testify as to the conditions that exist on their own lines, which conditions are typical of the conditions existing on other short lines in that locality, and I would like to file a list of the western short lines which we represent and which comprises 62 roads. (The list referred to is here printed in full as follows: ) Amador Central Railroad, Balboa Building, San Francisco, Cal. Arizona & New Mexico Railway, Clifton, Ariz. Arizona Southern Railroad Co., Red Rock, Ariz. Bay Point & Clayton Railroad, 9 Main Street, San Francisco, Cal. Bingham & Garfield Railway Co., Salt Lake City, Utah. Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway, Butte, Mont. California Western Railroad & Navigation Co., Crocker Building, San Francisco, Cal. Central Railroad of Oregon, Union, Oreg. Centralia Eastern Railroad, Centralia, Wash. Colorado & Wyoming Railway, 720 Boston Building, Denver, Colo. Colorado, Wyoming & Eastern Railway, Laramie, Wyo. Colum...