Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25
AS ConpIetionof Road Approach.
es, Discussion Begins Among
Railroad Men.
HARTMAN in THE LINE.
Ills Offices Discrcdit Stories, Could
People Deny It--opcning Date
Nc,,r Eirst2of Year.
!. as tNesrall seagon approaches, when

AS tHeffal season approaches, when
1t is promised that the new Gould
Il road, The Western Pacific, will be ops
ened for business, interests in the
probable personnel OF officials Of the
road, and even as to the control Of
355t the road itself, become rife. The cons
Il binatioIi of a number Of Incidents, per-
&. haps trifling in themselves. may serve
If to indicate I'M which direction the
Wind is blowing IN regard to this most
important western link IN some trans,
s continental road, 4is
First as to hesroad itself, There are
those who say that when the line is
completed and opened for patronage. IT
VIII be as a Hartman institution, and
extension OF the Union Pacific, not-5
withstanding the fact that II was
built by Could, There is the assc r
ton that Hartman rescued the road
In one of It's financial difficulties
pointed out In support OF this view;
And while this rumor is absolutely
denied in Denver & Rio Grande cir
y eles and not even acknowledged IN.
& Hartman, circles, in. the opinion of
some western railroad men the like
lihood Of the road being controlled
4%bY Hartman seems very plausible II
would give Hartmann, said a coast
railroad mar, discussing the subject
4 IAN absolutely perfect road into Cali
forniii, and one that could never be
33g surpassed. They say that q combine 7, %
Western Pacific would eliminate the
heavy grades of the Central Pa
cifcsGon this emo, and the bad
alignment of the Denver Rio
Cirande +on the other, and that the
Western Paeifc-ll Pacific com
bfnatton8is far moro fitted to the Har-5
srifnan scheme then the Denver & Rio
Grande and Western Pacific to that Of q
the Goulds'
81 SOME GO I1IlD. DENIALs. i5
5s On the other hand, representa- tives
U the Gould interests; nl;lintain that
i Tor the men composing the interests
Z headed by George Gould, under whose
direction the Western Pacific WAS
lanilty&and made perfect from the
start. no money or skill, regardless Of
cost, being spared to evolve the best
railroad ever built in meficas to 2 bring
such a road To completi ons and then
neekly hand the result OF their labor
and ambitions for years over to their
greatest competitor would be simply
worse t ham folly and sonnet thing not
to be- even thought OF. t! !yysi
official, .the idea is preposterous.5
s4After men like George Gould and D. =.
Jeffery and others have spent the
greater part Of their energies and cap-a
Z ital for the last number of years In
making possible this. Western Pacific,
10 think of their. giving 1T up just as
Al Is completed Is all tommyrot- ab-s
solntely silly. Don't you look for any Z.
think like that u ~, 62S
Therefore, considering the road as
purely a Gould line, which 1t undoubt-
#edly Is, the matter of the personnel
sthe officials OF the new line. when
1T goes into operatl ton. this fall, be-
comes of interest. Rumors Of changes
IN the staff b L the Denver a. Rio
Sl1rande officials have been circulating
fbr some months Indicating changes
Of men In high places from one road
to the other n The rurnors have Tnen- |
toned the probability OF the plac-S
ing OF the general m anagenentS
in the hands Of g. RidgWay
nov witf, the Denver. & Rio
se;Jande. Another ruinor gives that
shpnor to "A: Sf1g. NelbY. until recently
with tho Danver 6. fR Ia Gran de, but now
NTH the Denver, Laramie & Northwest
elm And again, it is said a New York
man may be brought in for the place, i
or at least an eastern railroad man.
OTHERS ON THE ROSTER.
For the position Of general freight
and traffic manugern3ft seems entirely
5likely that S. v. Derrall, present as
sistaiit general freight agent OF & the
traffic manager of the eastern division
& OF the Western Pacific, now In opera
tion as far as ShsLfter, New, will be the
man selected. Mr. j errah is now east
on a vacation, where he intends to-
spend several weoks at his old home
In Pennsylvania, after which he will
/ go to New York to confer with the 4