The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-26
WESTERN PACIFIC
NOT Affected

Virgil G. Bogue, vice pres dent
and chief engineer of the Western Pa
cifc, has issued the following sigued
statement:
Mr.. Bartnett has resigned as vice
president and general attorney and as
director, and his relations with the
Western Pacific are entirely ended.
AS matter of fact, his relations prac-
tically ended the first part of this
year. At that time he was superseded
as general counsel for the road by +.
w. McCuteheon of New York. Mr.
McCutcheon was given entire charge OF
the legal affairs of the company, ard
Warren Olney, Jr., was appointed
attorney for the company with immo-
diate charge of its legal affairs on the
Pacific coast. Mr. Bartnett remained
as vice president aand a director, and
was also given the title of general
attorney, but these positions were in
reality merely honorary, and he con
tinued to hold them, out of considera.
tion for his previous services to the
company.
g He has performed practically 10
service for the company and taken no
active part in its affairs since that
time. With his resignation ceases all
relations between this company and
anybody connected with the Califor
MIA Safe Deposit and Trust company.
''The company's relation to the
California Safe Deposit and Trust com
pany has never been anything except
that of depositor. The company IS
funds are kept in New York, but such
of its funds as were needed here for
current uses from day to day were de
posted with the California Safe De
posit and Trust company. The Western
Pacific occupies exactly the same
position as does any other depositor
and it will act with the other deposit
ors to recover what it can.
"The company is not affected by the
failure. Shortly after the suspension
of the California Safe Deposit and
Trust Co. the Western Pacific made
permanent banking arrangement with
the Bank of California, and is doing
its financial business through that in
sttution. It's work has not stopped
and will not stop Practically all
other railroad construction work in the
United States has come to an end for
the time being, except that of the
Western Pacific.
"The Western Pacific will go on. It
is now expending from a million to a
million and half dollars a month in
construction work, and this will con
tinue during the winter. just as soon
as the weather permits in the spring
an increase of force will be made at all
points, and the work will be pushed
so as to finish the road at the earliest
possible date. The total length of the
road when built will be 925 miles, and
of this the track is already laid on
about 300 miles, and there is approx
mately 800 miles more of roadbed all
ready for the track.
"The difficulty in the way of i'm
mediate completion is the long tunneus
of which there are four, and two or
three big bridges. The iron for the
bridges is on hand, but cannot be put
in place until after the winter floods.
The tunnels are being driven with ev-
cry man that can work upon them and
with every appliance known to mod
ern engineering and mechanical skill.
'It may be of interest to the public
to know that for some monehs past
the amount of wor~ done each month
on the Western Pacific has exceeded
the Panama canal, where more than
10000 men are employed.