Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-06-20
HOW EXPRESS
COMPANIES CHANGE
Present Employees of Paci-
fic Will Be Retained BY
The Wells Fargo With
Equipments.
MAY BUY THE STOCK
Sproule, President of the Wells Fargo
Company Explains How Things
VIII Change.

The status of the Pacific Express
Company, which is controlled by the
Missouri Pacific and the Wabash, and
largely interested, will be altered
August 1, when the Wells-Fargo &
Co. Express begins superseding it on
the Gould railroads.
The new deal will affect the Pine
Bluff office of the Pacific Express
Company, which will be closed some
time in July and replaced by the
Wells-fargo. The st. Louis Republic
of recent date in reviewing the ex-
press Company situation says:
William Sproule, president of the
WellslFargo e CD. Express, who was
in st. Louis yesterday, explained the
new relationship tof his corporation
with the Gould lines and the policy
toward the Pacific Express.
The W~ells-Fargo e Co.. Express has
made contracts with the Wabash, the
Missouri Pacific, the Iron Mountain,
the ST. Louis Southwestern end the
Texas Pacific to operate on these
roads. For the present, at least, the
Pacific Express will hold the business
of the Rio Grande System, the West
ern Pacific and the International &
Great Northern, but Mr.. Sproule in
timated that his company would, when
the opportunity occurred, endeavor to
make contracts with these Gould lines
also.
The ne wcontraets become effective
August 1, when the Wells Fargo &
Co. Express will supersede tho Pact
fc Express pm the principal Could
lines. 1t is expected that after a
time. the Pacific Express will be dis
played on the other Gould lines, and
there is at least a possibility that the
company ultimately will pass out of
existence.
None # the Secondary officers or
employees of the Pacific Express has
received any notice of the impending
change. At the company's general
offices in st. Louis there is not the
least formal indication that the Wells
Fargo & G.. Express will supersede
the Pacific. Officers and employees
have been wondering whether they
will get positions with the Wells
Fargo & Co. Express. and there is
considerable speculation rs to what
will become of the Pacific Express
wagons, horses, offices and general
equipment.
Mr.. Sproule explained that, al
though there is no understanding
whatever between his company and
the Pacific employees of the Pacific
may get positions with the Wells Far
go & Co. Express when business w2r-
rants increases in the force. The
country offices and equipment, as
we'll as the county employees of the
Pacific, will become part of the Wells
Fargo system.
The disposition of leases offices and
equipment in the cities is a problem
which the Pacific will have to solve.
Mr.. Sproule said the wargons, horses
and equipment of the Pacific will be
purch sed if reasonable prices are
asked, and if the Pacific wishes IL
sell them. Many officers and en-
ployes in the Pacific Express head
quarters, in the American Trust
building. probably will be without
positions, although Mr.. Spr,ule evi-
IDENTIFY is disposed to engage as many
of them as he can use.
BY the contracts made with five
G ould lines, the Wells Fargo & Co.
Express adds 10000 miles of railroad
to its service. When it makes con.
tracts with the Rio Grande System
the Western Pacific and the Interna-
tional & Great Northern, it will &C.
quire 1906 miles additi ,nal. The to-
tai additional service will approx
mate $4,000 miles, all on Gould rail
reads.
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