The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-07-19
PRESIDENT BUSH
ARRIVES IN CITY

Benjamin F. Bush, president of the
Missouri Pacific and the Denver and
Rio Grande, arrived in San Francisco
Thursday, says the Chronicle.
We're going to change the West
ern Paeific,' said Bush, who is at the
Fairmont. Were going to make
certain changes in the organization.
We re going to spend money for feed
ers and extensions and betterments.
We're going after the business and
while | dom want to wave any red
flags in any one S face, we re going
after il as keenly as we know how.
We We got lot of work before ms,
probably the most important being a
change in the underlying securities of
the Western But when the Western
Pacific is brought into the Missouri
Pacific system the latter will have the
proper title at last, for it will begin
in Missouri and end at the Pacific -
Personnel of Party.
Bush was accompanied here by his
wife and daughter, and by J. NJ. John
son, traffic director of the Missouri
Pacific and Rio Grande, and future
traffic director of the Missouri Pacific
system; F. NJ. Wadleigh. general pas
senger agent of the Denver and Rio
Grande; Major Andrew Hughes. gen
eral traffic manager of the Missouri
Pacific; Charles Stone, general passen.
ger agent of the Missouri Pacific: Alex
Robertson, assistant to the president.
and Vice President r. L. Brown of
the Denver and Rio Grande, who will
be elected successors to Charles Fl.
Schlaeks as first vice-presIdent of the
Western Pacine at a meeting of the
latter company's directors at 3 o'clock
this afternoon.
In establishing the unifeation of the
three roads, Bush expects to follow
the principle laid down by the late +.
III. Hartman in the merging of the
Union, Central and Southern Pacifcs
into one system.
- But isn't there a probability that
the Rio Grande and Western Pacific
will lose good deal of interchange
business when the unifeation principle
Is put into effectY'' he was asked
= Not bit,' he replied. "All the
other carriers have known the rela-
tionship existing between the Missouri
Pacific, Rio Grande and Western Pa
eitc. They know that Missouri Pa
cifc owned Rio Grande and that Rio
Grande owned Western Pacific. / ex-
peet TO exert every effort to build up
the entire system. / have confidence
in the ability of our working forces
and myself to do So The Western
Pacific has got to have money now.
We all know that. And we all know
that the money market is tight. Just
the same, / raised upwards of SAC. .OO0.-
900 for Missouri Pacific and Rio
Grande under far more diseouraging
conditions, and / don't think there
are going to be any tremendous OBJ
stacles in the path of getting enough
for Western Pacific, although it may
be necessary to wait a little while in
order to get rate of interest that
ism Z prohibitive.
Feeders to Be Built.
The Western Pacific Just now re.
sembles bridge from Salt Lake to
San Francisco. 1t hasn't any feeders
1t hasn Z the extension il should have.
As the road stands, it isn't run down,
but there is plenty of room FIR i'm
proyement. We propose to improve it.
We propose to build feeders for it.
w BAVHVNt " tANtHu II. we DTODOSt
at the start to add new equipment.
freight ana passenger, and to make
improvements in service that will put
tht road on par in every way with
its biggest competitors. Later we're
going to excel our competitors in ser
vice.
FOut of justice to the system, to
the public and to myself, | cannot 90
into the details of our plans for the
future. Frankly, the most important
plans must be worked out in San
Francisco during the next fortnight
The financial condition of the Western
Pacific must be changed, and it will
be changed Lots of money is going
to be spent on it, and when the ex-
position is opened, it will be so i'm
proved as to be almost unrecognizable
A tremendous amount of money
was spent in building the Western Pa
eile. It's been running now nearly
two years. It's time more money was
spent on it. Tunnels, bridges and even
the roadbed, in some spots must be
changed and improved. / am salts
fled of this after inspecting the prop
erty. Feeders must be built to get the
traffic we are entitled to. 1t would be
folly to let other roads encroach on
our own territory without making
fight for the business ourselves. Take
the Santa Clara valley, for instance
We re ony short distance from there
Look at the traffic it delivers annual
ly. We want some of that. We re
going after all we can get We can
do everything in a day, of course. But
we can do all we can In one day, and
then start over the next day to do a
much more as we can.
New Era Is Opened.
1.-The Western Pacific was original
intended to be a gateway to the P
eifie for the Missouri Pacific. II VIZ
originally intended to be the last lint
in transeontinental chain. Now
with the unifcation Of the system.
new era will open for the three roads.