New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-17
Erie Express Company.

tcrdsy, and the following notices have boon issacd
regarding the transfer
Erie Express Company
oacs Of the President, 81 Cortland st.
New-York. March 10. 1883
,,a Erie rxpress Company having sold wells Fargo
Company Its business good will and equipment said last
named company this day succeeds to the operation OF
express business the lines heretofore Operated W 0
Erie Express Company.
pv between the two companies the agents
and employees Of the Express Company VIII continue
In their respective positions until further Instructed
once OF Wells Fargo Company o5 Broadway,
New-York March 16, 1888.
Wells Fargo Company having purchased the business
good viii and equipment OF the Erie Express company
hereby charge Of the express business
carried ON by the Erie Express Company. -
Agents ana employees the Eric Express Company VIII
10 perform their duties heretofore using tho
books and blanks Of the Erie Express Company
the nare@ wells Fargo Company for Erie Express Com
many wherever occurs until regular DOCKS anu oianA
OF Wells Fargo 8 Company are furnished
Until further orders Mr. W. w. Chandler, jT' as super
ntcndent will report Mr. W. j. Hancock general super
intcndent OF this company, Omaha, Neb
JOHN VALENTINE. ce-presdcnt
The managers Of both the express company and New
York Lake Erie and Western Railroad think that the trans
action Is mutually beneficial The operating onciais Oh
the road figure contract which Is the usual AZ per
cent one should worth about 81 600 Gay TOT inc pe
ent and until the completion OF the system that "ens
Fargo Co have contemplation President hlhg o INC
Erie was loath TO turn company that no
himself had established after the break with the ohea
States Company three years ago. But a'er
weeks consideration and the showing maoe oy "e
Fargo Co. Of the large and extensive alliances "mcn
they would bring Erie system he eventusiJ oecue
that It would be proper and profitable thing to ao'
The Walls Fargo a Co. Express was organized In
March 1852 1t has at present 2 800 omees anu win e
4 will
over 600 The miles railroad covered by the "ehs
Fargo Co. Express including the Erie system eheeo
40 600 The lines Of the Wells Fargo Company extend
from TO and between Boston, NewYork, Cincinnati Uni
csco St Louis New-oreans, Galveston, Kansas City,
St Joseph Omaha, FL Paso' Hous'on'
Santa Te, Helena, Dcsdwood- Denver chey-
enne, Vera Cruz. City of Mexico onih t0,nss
Ogden Los Angeles SACRAMENTO foreanu'
o,esop. Gusvmas Mazauan San Diego. San
Francisco ana Victoria. British Columbia Inc
company has three avenues OF communication -s
the Atlantic and the Pacific coast and us lines
nearly every State and Territory in the Union while from
Nswyort Il communicates with Great Britain France
Germany Asia and Africa 1t Is asserted that the ne" ar
ranrement places the wclsFargo Company on 'up,o
footing giving IT, 1t does, the only through eApre''
tr,osconnental line. Thus the express company hSs
.,n,,Iy established the famous pony express overland
stage line and did enormous business In the mountain
regions OF the Pacific coast and between inc Ne'a
the Rocky Mountains, has grown INTO inc ia's ,s a
EXPRESS company United States or In the worm anu
company has reversed the usual course Oh events
Inv coming East It's said from the first IL was con-
a,ed ultimately TO establish this line from ocean 10
ocean. and that has at last been accomplished u,
There can be no doubt OF the immense value OF th's ~
ance between Wells, Fargo Co. ana the Erie h"aS VI
Of lis great benefits beth companies Al 'he same u
cannot fail TO be OF s, greater benefit TO the general
rullc by enabling send through goods oy oo
COMPANY from and o any portion of the United states
The representatives. Of Wells Fargo q 20 N enev'
this arrangement were j. Valentine Of San Francisco
General Manager Hancock OF Omaha Mr. Peek, is"!er
q Tor eka Kan AMI H. B. Parsons Of this city. For '
Erie Company MessIs. King, Mills and j. L. MeCloush
acted Mr. Mccullough took an especially scu'e pAi' Al
carrying through tho negotiations.