The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1903-10-09
RAILROAD OFFICIALS.
Meeting of Officers and Directors
Held Here Last Night.


a g. 90 o'clock on their special train
and left this morning at Z O'Clock for
FL Paso The object of the trip was
for the annual inspection OF the
lines and for the annual election OF
officers and directors which occurred
here last night at o'clock, on Pres
ident H. U. Mudge's special car.
All of the old officers were re-
eminently satisfactory. Following
are the officers who were reelected:
H. u Nudge, of Topeka, Kansas,
president of the Pecos Valley lines.
He is also general manager of the
Santa Fe. Avery Turner, of Amarillo,
vice president and general manager
of the Pscos Valley lines; j. c. Paul,
of Amarillo, treasurer of the Pecos
Valley lines; Don A. Sweet, of Anna
rillo, secretary of the Pecos Valley
lines: A. L. Conrad. of Amarillo, au-
ditor of the Pecos Valley lines.
&The following were the passengers
on tue special train which consisted
of the special cars of Avery Turner
and II. q. Nudge: H. U. Nudge, of
Topeka; George H. Clarke, of Tope-
ka, formerly secretary of state OF
Kansas and the present state print
er: T. J. Temper, of Hutchinson,
Kansas. president of the Kansas
Grain Co., of Hutchinson; Avery Tur
ner and wife, J. c. Paul, A. L. Con-
rad and Mrs briggs, of Amarillo,
and w. C. Hilton of Topeka, private
secretary to President Nudge.
Mrs. briggs is a friend of Mrs
Turner's and Messrs. Clarke and
Templer are friends of Mr.. Nudge
They were shown around Roswell
last evening and were highly i'm
pressed with the metropolitan air OF
things and our progressiveness and
declared Roswell had, a great future
AID was destined to become large
city. President Nudge left Topeka
last Tuesday, and will leave Ell Paso
over the Rio Grande for Albuquerque
and expects to get back TO Topeka
next Tuesday.
The Amarillo party will return ov-
er the Pecos Valley lines. They were
highly pleased with the inspection
and found the property in good con-
dition. They made several stops be-
tween here and Amarillo to shoot
quail and ducks and they had fine
success and killed a big bag of the
game.
In an interview last night on the
car President Nudge said: I'VE will
frankly admit that the depot you
have at this point is not good enough
for your prosperous little city, and
we are little slow in spending mon
Ay on a new depot until we see what
you. are going to do. If we should
build a depot now which would be
adequate for your present popula-
ton or for population of 5000 or
10000 people the town might soon
grow to be much larger and the de-
pot accommodations would again be
inadequate, and there would be the
same trouble as we have now. II
ve should build a new depot now
the town might grow very rapidly,
and unfortunately, or fortunately we
would have to build new depot.
You can say that later on we will
build a depot here that will be a
credit to Roswell / have not been
here for about six months. and
am surprised at the wonderful and
substantial growth. I notice new buJ
siness buildings, and your cement
walks are solid Improvement ana
iSnpress strangers with your progress
siveness MY friends that are with
me are of the opinion that Roswell
s1has the most metropolitan air of any
town in the country Of 5000 inhabi-
tants and we are highly impressed.
On the depot question we had the
same trouble at Las Vegas before
we erected a new depot there"
Avery Turner was interviewed al
SO. He SAYS: THE origin of the de-
pot fire at Amarillo is mystery and
is thought to be incendiary. It was
o. union station and was owned by
the TT Worth G Denver City and P. /
". NJ e. railway companies, and the
Choctaw had their general offices in
the depot A new depot will be erec
ted and will possibly be owned by
the three roads. but no definite plans
have been decided upon up to the
present time
All OF the directors we're reelected |
except I'd Kenna, the vice president