The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-04-10
ROCK ISLAND CHANCE.



topeka. kss, April i0-rno Rock Is
hud announces several changes ln The
iseinetrins department which become cf-
fccuve today.
20 G. raylor who has been division
e,ig Of the Kansas division has
been transferred TO the til Paso division
at Dulhart re,as
49, A. Van Frank who has been de
VISION engineer of the Miss suri division
has been transferred from rren,,u. Mis-
souri, TO Topeka to be division eiistpeer
of the Kansas division.
e. M Case. division engineer OF the
E Paso division has been transferred 20
grutoa 20 have charge of the Missouri
Civ lsiou
r. Budd. who came to the Rock Island
rrom the Maple Leaf hast year TO DE di-
VISION engineer OF the ST. Louis division.
tho new limo between Kansas city and
et Louis. las resigned 90 return TO the
Maple Leaf
e.. A. Barley WHO has been assistant
20 the division engineer at Trenton. has
Dcon appointed To- have charge Of the
So Louis division with headquarters az
fldcn. NO.
Ihcre WAS talk for a tme OF transfer
ring the Office of engineer of the m
Iaso division from Dalhmt TO Hutch
usou Kansas. but t'as plan has been
abandoned
W. e. Taylor. who gocs To- Dalhart
from Topeka hu, been located here for
abou yeu ana half and has ham
Died the affairs Of hls division in mont
,r,dHa1le mnnner.
Mr. VAN Frank who comes 90 Topeka
was formerly an old HocNiug Valley
iaihoad man and came TO the Rock Is
land from Columbia Ohio. ic was
brought 10 the Rock Island by former
General Manager n. l. Miller.
AR Van Prank IS ON experienced en-
elneer and upon alm viii fnn the re-
81 Ionsibui;y 0f handling the improve
ment work planned upon the Kansas di-
VISION this year
AS soon as Weather viii permit work
viii be begun TO r,plnce the present
seventy pound steel rails with eighty
pound rails. of which work there viii
be about $50 miles ON the Kansas divis-
iou Rock end g'imb ballast win also
be placed undei an the rails where this
work has not already Dten accomplish
eG The ballast will be made ten inches
evep a portion of the line already bal-
h,ed has only oghs inches Of ballast
under the rails. This viii ail be filed in
To- make IT Ten incnes deep.
no accomplish this work more than a
thousand extra mrn viii be given em-
poyment turing the summer in addition
go the regular force OF section men ON
tho division. About this number OF men
were employed last year on the Missouri
DIVISION. un6 consequently the force on
that division win not be 80 large this
year
Nearly a thousand extra men win be
1t work On the El Paso and New Mex
leo divisions. and the safnc number win
likely be employed on the Choctaw di-
Visions
an OF this york viii be directed from
thc Office on Principal Assistant Edgin-
Ger } C B'oom whose headquarters
vcr, moved from. Chicago TO Topeka on
April 1.
Similar work win be carried out along
tho Rock Island lines in Iowa, Nebus-
ka and Colorado, buS this work will not
I've directed from the headquarters at
1ofeka.
/ It is estimated that an the work en-
umeratcd will cost about five million
dollars of which about 70 million and
/ "a quarter VIII bee spent in Kansas.
AS printed heretofore it IS indicated
tta the Rock Island win spend about
100000 81 reparng bridges on the kan-
sas division with new steel structures.
Nurly a million dollars win be re-
tu;red 10 do the balhsting and replac,
/ ihr steel rails with heavier rails.
Nlpi5st as much work win be done ON