The San Francisco call., 1909-12-07
Gossip of RaiIwaymen

HE telegraph line of the Western
Pacific is now completed. accord
ing to information obtained at
the executive office of the company yes
terday afternoon. Between this city
and Oroville and between winnemucca.
New, and Salt Lake City the line is in
operation. All communications be-
tween those points are sent by the tel
egraph, while between Oroville and
Winnemucca business is transacted by
telephone. The washouts reported from
0roville were not of a serious nature.
Il. E. stanton, newly appointed gem
era1 agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul, will return here today
from Chicago to ass ume his new posi-
ton. When Stanton left for Chicago
week ago in response to a telegram
from the head office of the company he
was contracting freight agent in this
city. He returns as general agent. sue
ceeding the late C. L. Canfield. Charles
III. Miles, travelling passenger agent of
the company, was appointed division
passenger agent at the time of Stan
toms appointment and the Office will be
conducted Jointly by stanton and Miles.
p X. Gordon. Pacific coast agent of
the Washington Sunset route, returned
yesterday from two weeks visit to
Oregon.
E. NJ. Pomeroy, Pacific coast agent of
the Union line of the fast freight
lines of the Pennsylvania system, re-
turned from New York Saturday morn
ing and is again hard at work.
The passenger department of the
Great Northern has issued an. attract
i've pamphlet devoted to the agricul-
tural, horticultural and industrial op-
years Montana has been best known
for its rich deposits and large output
of copper, and more recently for the
raising of cattle, but has not been
looked upon until the last few years as
a grain producing and agricultural
state.
Several million acres of the agricul-
tural lands adjacent to the Great
Northern are open to homestead inter-
ests. Some of it comes within the
homestead act and thus enables the
same seeker to file on 500 instead of $50
acres. 1t is said that at the rate filings
are being made most of this land will
be settled within the next two or three
years.
The Illinois Central is sending a spe-
cial commissioner to Panama to boom
Central American cities as winter re-
sorts
H. E. Vernon has been appointed
general freight and passenger agent of
the Santa Fe, in charge of that COM
panys new Office in Portland.
Grove Ketchum. general passenger
agent of the Washington- Sunset route
at Los Angeles. is in the city on busi-
ness.
E. A. Dawson. manager of the Star
the Pennsylvania system. and C. L.
Kimball, assistant general passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania lines at Chi
cago, are making a visit to the Pacific
coast offices of the company. They are
at present in Seattle making arrange
ments for new and spacious ground
floor Offices in that city. They will ar
rive in this city Friday morning.
The western railroad world is WATCH
ing with keen interest the operation Of
what are known as students courses
now being conducted on the three big
branches of the Hartman system The
general purpose of the courses is both
educational and practical and their
scope is sufficiently wide to include
even the common laborers Generally
speaking, the purpose of the students
courses is to assist employees in fitting
themselves to assume greater RESPONSE
bilities and also to assist them IN de-
termining for themselves the partic-
ular line of railroad work for which
they are best fitted.