The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-28
HARTMAN BOARD
Is SELECTED
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said yesterday:
1T was thought best TO have two
thoroughly reliable and competent
business men on the board who are
not officials of the Oregon Short Line
Mr. Wells is without doubt one of the
best business and executive men in the
west and the same thing can be said
of Mr.. Ritter. Coupled with the latter's
executive ability, is his knowledge of
railroading. He was for years super
intendent of the old Utah Western
narrow-guage railroad when Farley L.
Williams, now at the head OF the Ore
gon Short Lines legal department was
it's attorney. Both men are friendly to
the Hartman interests and anxious to
see Salt Lake and neighboring terri
tory bettered and thoroughly capable
of taking a part in the advancement Of
local conditions"
Church Steps Out.
The transfer involves approximately
40 per cent of the total stock of the
Utah Light & Railway company. This
portion was formerly held and has just
been yielded by the church and Nc
Cune interests. The Mormon church's
holdings We're represented on the old
board of directors by President Joseph
F. Smith. President John r. Winder
and President Anthem H. Lund. The
y repre-
sented on the board by Joseph s.
Wells. w P Read and c. L. Rood,
The officers were: President, Joseph F
Smith; first vice-president, John r.
Winder: second vice-president Joseph
s. Wells; treasurer, L. S. Hills, and
secretary and general manager, r. S..
Campbell. While announcement has
been made that the president, vice
presidents and directors, with three ex-
afternoon, outside of the selection of
new directors, nothing is included in
the statement about new officers. 1t
has been learned from an authentic
source that Mr.. Bancroft will succeed
Joseph T. Smith as president. Mr.,
Campbell, present general manager
Will probably retain that office for
some time and a superintendent will
be brought from the east to look after
operation.
Utah Power ReorganiZed.
With the transfer and reorganization
of the Utah Light & Railway COM
pany, the reorganization of the Utah
Power company, a subsidiary corpor-
alton, was necessary. This was eff
fected yesterday morning at a direc-
tors meeting. The new officers of this
company are; President, P. L. VIII
menD; vice-president, d. E. Burley
Oregon Short Line general passenger
agent; secretary and treasurer, F. II.
Knickerbocker (private secretary TO w.
II. Bancroft). These officials with Vice.
President and General Manager w. II
Bancroft and Superintendent E. Buck
ingham will also constitute the board
of directors. The new board met, or
ganized, filed the oath of office and
Iox
morning. 1t will meet there at o'clock,
Immediately before the meeting Of thel
board of directors of the Utah Light
&, Railway company, when the transfer
will be closed. The old officers of the
Utah Power company were: President
J. z. DoOley; vice president, G. L. |
Rood: secretary and treasurer, j. S. |
Wells These officers with William p |
Read and the late Vivian z. McCune, |
constituted the board of directors.
This company has been kept a sep
arate organization during the changes
made in the corporate life of the local
street railway company, from the time
of it's inception TO it's present growth !
The late Fr1nk Armstrong was its
promoter during his life and the COM |
pany was the original power PROPOSE |
ton of the system, erecting a large
power station in Big Cottonwood.
Several Mergers Effected.
There were three companies at first, !
the Salt Lake City railroad (the old
horse-car SYSTEM, the Rapid Transit
and the Utah Power company. Wheni
these were merged August 9, 1901, and
called the Consolidated Light & Power
company the Utah Power company re- |
manned a corporation by itself, al
though its stock and holdings Werei
t.
manned a subsidiary company when the
local light and railway companies were
merged into the Utah Light & Power
company through an intermediate I'M
ion, December 80, 1899. Among the light
companies involved in this merger
were the Pioneer Power company, thel
Salt Lake Citizens Electric Light COM
pany, and the Salt Lake & Ogden Gas
and Electric Light company. A third
merger was effected January 2, 1904, !
involving the Utah Light and Power
and the Consolidated Railway & Pow
er companies. The consolidated COM
panies have been since known as thel
Utah Light & Railway company. The
Utah Power company remained intactl
through these various mergers and
changes and had its separate officers
and directors until yesterday morning
The Pioneer Power company built
the power house at the mouth of Og-
den canyon The first officers of this
company were: President, George Q
Cannon; viee-president, John r. Win
der; secretary, G. X. Bannister, and
general manager, Frank j. Cannon.
These men with President MILFORD
Woodruff and President Joseph F.
Smith constituted the board of direc-
tors. r. s. Campbell succeeded Mr.
Cannon as general manager and has
retained that position to date.
The church and McCune interests
have surrendered all their holdings IN
both railway and power propositions
affording the Hartman interests COM