The San Francisco call., 1910-06-08
WESTERN PACIFIC
PICKC 2 AGENT
Davenport of Colorado Mid
land and Mansfield Are
Appointed

II WO important appointments were
\ announced by the Western Pacific
| railway yesterday. One was W. II.
! Davenport, at present general agent of
! the Colorado Midland, to be general
agent of the Western Pacific and of
the Denver and Rio Grande in this city,
and the other, j. D. Mansfield, CONNER
cial agent of those roads, to be freight
claim agent, with office in this city.
| The appointment of Davenport to be
general agent comes as a genuine sur
prise to local railroad circles. AS is
well known the Colorado Midland is to
discontinue its branch agencies out
side of the state of Colorado after
July l. and Davenport's new position
comes just in time. He has been con-
nected with the Colorado Midland in
this city for number of years, and is
one of the most popular railroadmen
| on the coast
! ]. ID. Mansfield, the new freight claim
agent of the Western Pacific, has been
connected with the Gould lines for sew
eral years in the capacity of commercial
agent. Both appointments become ef-
| -SNsA'O uiJ
The interstate commerce commission
has postponed the effective date of its
order in the switching cases to Novem-
Der i, and the injunction hearing sched
| uled at present for October IL at st.
Paul. will doubtless be transferred to
/ the new commerce court, according to
| advices received by the traffic bureau
of the Merchants exchange yesterday.
| 1T
of the Hawley system of railroads, is
due to arrive in this city today in his
private car
After reconstructing 80 miles of rail-
road, the Salt Lake line will have COM
pletely recovered by Friday of this
week from one of the most disastrous
washouts in the history of railroading.
The rebuilding of the track between
Rox station, New, and Islen has been
virtually completed. The last rails will
be laid by Friday night.
New surveys for route along the
hillsides in the flood district are near
ing completion and work on the pro-
posed lines is to be begun soon. When
it is completed the present route will
be abandoned The Salt Lake has an
nounced a time schedule for through
trains effective June II.
The transcontinental tariffs are to be
corrected, allowing pulp board and
| corrugated cardboard boxes to move al
/ the same rates If packed with merchan-
disc as If the merchandise were packed
in wooden boxes.
r. D. Williams has been appointed
| district passenger agent of the Union
| Pacific, with office at Denver. This is
a new position. Byron II. Bullard has
been appointed city passenger agent
| Mi x-fa
| r. d. Williams.
/ ]. E. Sexton, assistant to the presi-
dent and traffic manager of the Quincy
and Western, was In the city yesterday.
| He announced that this road would be-
gin operation June IA. The road runs
off the Western Pacific between Hart
well and Quincy
The following passenger officials are
registered at Del Monte at the annual
meeting of the advertising forces of
| the Hartman lines:
/ j. III. r. Parsons. general passenger
agent of the Southern Pacific lines in
| Louisiana; T. J. Anderson, general pas
| senger agent of the Galveston, Harris
| burg and San Antonio; L. II. Nutting,
general eastern agent of the Southern
| Pacific at New York; William McMur-
| ray, general passenger agent of the
Southern Pacific lines in Oregon and of
the Oregon railroad and navigation
/ company; w. d. Skinner, general pas
senger agent of the Oregon and Wash
| ington; d. e. Burley, general passen-
ger agent of the Oregon Short Line;
| James Horsburgh Jr., general passen-
ger agent of the Southern Pacific;
Charles S. Fee. passenger traffic man.
ager of the Southern Pacific, E. o. Nc
| Cormick, vice president in charge of
/ traffic of the Southern Pacific, and r.
| S. Stubbs, general passenger agent of
the Southern Pacific lines in Arizona.
The party will be increased in few
| days by f. E. Batturs, assistant gen
eral passenger agent of the Southern
Pacific; Phil K. Gordon, general Pacific
| coast agent of the Washington-Sunse
route; E. l.. Lomax, general passenger
agent of the Union Pacific, and c.. F.
Dunlap, traffic manager of the Wash
| ington- Sunset route.