Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-20

$3.50 AA' ~
1t was probably due to the arrival Of
the psychological moment in the two
mems lives that Mr.. Parker entered into
the agreement. Everybody in Colorado
knows the result.
THERE was wild excitement in the
mining regions Of Colorado at the
time. As Mr.. Parker's fortunes ad-
|vanced he finally provided Lockhart with
lST5 = month, or which S25 went to Lock-
hart and $50 to the %lntter's wife. Ten
and fifteen years passed. Lockhart never
lost faith In his luck and never lost tho
ability to instil that blind faith into tho
man who was helping him.
Hockhart led In the rush Ia Tonopah
and located the Tonopah Extension. Later
HE trailed across the desert ID the new
.Goldfeld camp. where he mnde his great
strike by locating the Florence mine. He
returned TO Denver With his mining con.
tracts made ont Jointly in the names Of
Parker and Lockhart They are now both
miilionnaires. Mr.. Parker manages their
Joint fortunes and mining properties. and
often tells Mr.. TrumbuIl that the rretti.
lNHN AHiiE dUtNll the NHule uiihlT u luh
close bond between himself and the man
he grub-stakcd.
II was under fine management uf Mr..
Trumhull that the extensive development
of the Colorado and Southern was begun
by the chief factors in the property. Cen
IernI Grenville NJ. Dodge, Edwin Hawley.
OF the Iowa Central and Glover Leaf. mud
Benjamin r. Yoakum. OF the Rock
Island. II was decided that the Inc had
to he extended 70 the sotth anH ron
nected with the West to put Il IN the
position Of transporting the products NJ
Colorado and Texas to the greatest ad.
vantage.
An extension was made rorthward into
Wyoming. and the Colorado Midland
Railway Company was purchased i3intly
with Gould's Rim Grnnfe Western Mr..
Trumbull is also president of the Col.
nrado Midland. which in it's extension
west from Lendville connects the c. and
s. with the Rio Grande Western. and
thus with the Western Could systems AMI
the Hartman lines. giving it a ready ac-
cess to the Pacific coast.
But the most important enterprise was
the building Of the Trinity end Brazos
Valley Railway from Fort Worth and
Dallas 10 The Gulf. giving the system a
funnel to Galveston through which to
carry the growing food Of export ira hic
Of the Southwest. This lire is owned By
the Colorado and Southern. but the Rock
Island has taken a half ihtel est in It..
The tremendous expansioa Of traffic in
tho Gnntku-o-to,, ..n..et-~. - I.t.l. -h.-A
of phenomenal, and Mr.. Trumbull was
one Of the first TO fpresee this growth as
a result Of the development of agriculture
by irrit ytion and the settlement of the
Panhandle of Texas, into which a ire
mendous amount OF Immigration has
poured within the last few years.
After a recent trip over the Colorado
and Southern one of the presidents
friends said to him:-"It's eleven years
since I passed over the Fort Worth and
Denver City, and I could hardly credit the
Expansion in the of that terri
tory. This time / found it in a stat" of
cultivation which, il it had been pro 3he-
sled to me then, would have seemed In
credible. I saw alfalfa fields ~rivaling
those seen Ia California in extent and
condition"
MR.. TRUMBULL is a great believer
in the future of the railroad bust
ness. 'The encouraging thing for
young men in these days" lie says. sis
that there was never before a time in
the history Of the world when brains
were needed so much as they are now.
"The railroad business has reached a
stage In its development where it needs
young men Of scientific training. The
time has gone by when a railroad will put
millions OF dollars worth of machinery
into the hands of i~lliterate and unframed
men.
after the war there was a great deal
OF railroad building in this country, which
forced many crude. unscientiic and even
illiterate men up to the front. But now
we've got into a period where the demand
is more and more for young men of SCI
enti6c training"
In evidence of the great development of
Colorado and the adjoining country Mr..
Trumbull points out that the Colorado
and Southern carries about three million
passengers a year at an average rate Of
2.44 cents a mile. which is only a trfhe
more than a two cent postage stamp.
This low rate is partly in n section
where physical operations are most diff
cult, and where wages are probably the
highest in the world. In England and
Wales. with an area of $1,000 square
miles, the number of passengers carried
Il more than in the whole 3,025,000
square miles Of the United States.
But in England, with much lower
wages, the regular third class rate is a
penny a mile and first class passengers
pay more thar three cents.
Frank Trumbull was born in Arcadia,
Mo. His p%aternal ancestors came orig
inally from Scotland and settled in this
country aboat 1880. His father, who
came from Massachusetts. was a teacher.
and, in fact, taught in the very school in
Pleasant Hill where his boy distinguished
himself in algebraic problems. His mother
was a lineal descendant from Governor
William Randolph, of Virginia. His
parents were married near Richwoods.
Mo, in 1915, aud Frank was the youngest
iof a family of four children. He married
Miss Mary A. Sisson, of Illinois, and has
one child, Roscoe Hale Trumbull, who is
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