The San Francisco call., 1910-02-13
Gossip of RailWaymeB

II L. METCALF, executive secretary
I'll of the Southern Pacific. visited
- the Transportation club the
other day and every member of the
club knew it before they had entered
the clubrooms
The famous Metcalf signature. known
all over the coast to raiIToadmen. had
been placed in the visitors book and
several of the club members thought
they had accidentally dropped their an
nuals when they saw the signature.
J. F. Holden, vice president and gem
eral manager of the Midland Valley,
has resigned and will soon enter the
service of Kansas City company.
Charles NJ Hobbs. formerly purchas-
ing agent of the Denver and Rio
Grande. and latterIy general manager
of the Nevada California power COM
pany is dead at Denver. He helped
establish the first signal station on
Pixies peak
w r. Alberger, traffic manager of
the Tonopah and Tidewater, is in the
city for few days.
A few days ago H. r. Higgins. COM
mercial agent of the Southern, was
Dragging about his qualification as a
solicitor.
4 am the best solicitor in the coun-
try" he said.
In the country you are. l admit it.
was the reply of railroadman who
in, % fry
+. S. Guthrie, heretofore with the
Southern Pacific has been appointed
passenger station superintendent for
the Hill lines at Seattle, in place OF
Robert Dudgeon, who resigned To be-
come a director of the Northwestern
demurrage bureau.
A. B. Apperson. whose resignation as
superintendent of the Salt Lake dlvl-
sion of the Denver and Rio Grande is
now effective, is to affiliate with road
on this coast, according to report.
Omcers of the Oregon Short Line have
recently made triumphal tour
through northern Utah and south Ida
no with a potato and soil special; IN
other words. a farmers instruction
train in which the lecturer dealt chief
" with the art of growing potatoes
Previous to the trip the general pas
senger. agent had offered $500 In prizes
for the four best exhibits OF potato
fields of one-fourth acre, one-halt acre
one acre and five acres. Last year I''"l
cars of potatoes were shipped out OF
Idaho. 3O9 of which went as lar as
Texas and 303 TO Missouri and points
east of there.
Charles P. Ensign, Union Pacific
freight and passenger agent at Los
Angeles has resigned to accept a SIM J.
lar position with the Western Paclhc
and Denver and Rio Grande under
G. Fred Herr.
The state railroad commission of
Georgia has issued an order requiring
all railroads to report each week all
late passenger trains. and also TO re-
port by wire or by other prompt method
every accident causing death or INJURY
Monthly reports of accidents are re-
auired. for each month, within 10 days
after the close of the month.
Norfolk is to have a S1.OOo.ooO depot
in combination with an eight story
office building.
The structure and the tracks required
bv the three railways which have
agreed to join in using them are to be
unon property at the end of Main
street, which was acquired some time
ago for city terminal purposes by the
Virginian.
Negotiations looking toward the erec-
ton of a union depot at Norfolk have
been in progress for some months be-
tween the Norfolk and Western, Vir
ginian and Norfolk and Southern rail-
ways.
A consular report says that a con-
cession has been granted by the Mex
lean government to John Henderson
and P. Sandoval both of Nogales, So
nora, Mexico, for a line from Port LO-
hos, on the gulf of California. northeast
via Coborca to Sasabe. on the interna-
tionaI boundary. The concession pro-
vides that no other railway shall be
built within a zone of % miles wide.
along the entire length of the line and
includes Port Libertad. the only ada
cent available harbOr in that section.
Track must be laid on 20 miles by
April, 1911. 1t is understood that con-
struction work will be started early
this year.