The herald., 1897-08-25
General Headquarters of
the Santa Fe System
IMPORTANT
CHANGE
TRANSFER TO BE MADE BY THE
FIRST OF SEPTEMBER ..
Albuquerque Left on the Side Track
Los Angeles the Chicago of the
Southwest

Los Angeles will on or about Septem-
ber 1 become the general headquarters
for all of the western divisions of the
Santa Fe railroad system. The rrepar-
ations for the change are about complete
and some of the officers who will be af-
fected by it are now on their way to this
city For years the general officers of
the company from which nearly all the
business west of the Missouri river is
controlled, have been located at Albu-
querque, N M, and It is from that point
that the offices are to be moved to Los
Angeles. The change has been conte M
plated for several months and once be-
fore, nearly year ago, it was about to
be made, but for some unknown reason
the order was not issued until within the
last mont tn. 1t has been known here for
weeks by the officers of the company that
the move was to be made, and prepara-
tions have been begun accordingly but
the matter has not been made public and
even now the officers will not give out
just what changes in the offices will be
caused thereby.
The first intimation here that such an
important move was to be made was OBJ
tanned yesterday from a press dispatch
from Denver. According to this dis
patch General Superintendent A. c.
Wells and his entire office force were
reported to have been ordered to Los
Angeles by Friday of this week, but in
quiry at the Offices here. ELECTED the In
formation that the change will not be
coY,1 y,1pted haf SaDte m I,ar
General Manager William c. Nevin, of
the Southern California railway, was
seen at his office yesterday and asked
as to the effect of the change of Offices
He stated that the matter was not as
yet in such shape as to permit him to
make public the full particulars. He ex-
poets additional orders and information
in few days when the official announce
ment of the change will be made.
From another source, however, it was
learned that when the offices are moved,
Los Angeles will bear the same relation
to the western divisions of the Santa Fe
system as the Chicago headquarters
bear toward the eastern portion of the
road. This will mean that the business
of the system as far east from the coast
as Albuquerque will be controlled and
directed from this city. This portion of
the system includes several divisions.
On the main line west of Albuquerque
there are two division headquarters east
of this city. One is a Gallup and has
charge of the road from Albuquerque to
Williams. The other Isl at the Needles
and controls the line from Williams to
Barstow and thence to Mojave. The
Los Angeles offices look after the busi-
ness of the Southern California railway,
which is also part of the system.
Just how many additional employees of
the company the change of headquarters
will bring to this city has not yet been
decided upon by the company, but the
number will not be large, as they will
include only the office force of the general
superintendent Those who have been
mentioned as coming are j. w. Walker,
chief clerk; F. B. Sutton and E. c. Gott,
stenographers; S. w. Saltmarsh, Mrs.
w. A. Walker and Miss E. L. Robbins,
car clerks. The report that ]. H. Kuhns,
general storel1eeper and his office force,
are to be removed to Santa Barbara is
believed here to be erroneous. While the
Storekeeper's Office may be moved it is
not considered probable that his head
quarters will be at that point, but at
some city which is the terminus of at
least two divisions SO that his work could
be more easily performed.