The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1917-10-12
SHAKEP ON DENVER
AND RIO GRAMDE
STARTS
~. a. NUDGE RESIGNS AND D.. a.
BROWN COMES IN.
Everything Now Points to I,corganl-
Sation and Consolidation Planned
with Missouri Pacific System With
o.. o. Hush ~ the Helm After Meet
Ing This Month OF Stockholders.

II begins to look as " the shak.up
In Denver and Rio Grand- affairs was
beginning To- rhap" itself and that nf-
ter October 10th, this month. there
viii be- new deal all around--that ~,
after the meeting Of stockholders In
Denver. Colo, next Tuesday. y. T..
lirown ~ ST. Paul. MINI. has been
named as president OF the system. lie
succeeds ~. q, Nudge. resigned. II
iH reported that Drown viii have his
headquarters In New York. where the
Missouri Pacific ana the Denver and
itio Grandc may be- operated ~ one
road. Subsequent Co the election 81
Brown as president. Kingdom Gould.
who has been drafted into the national
army rendered his resignation as a
director ut the Denver and Rio
Grnndr.
News Of the resignation 81 Nudge
and the selection of brown as his sue
ccssor ala not come unexpectedly Ia
railroad and commercial Interests,
The last official act Of Nudge 81 local
interest was the sending at a message
to the Utah public utilities commits
sion a few days ago giving assurance
that his road would be supplied with
thirteen hundred ears FOR use of the
coal industry In Carbon county
Nudge II Possessed ~ great wealth
and has a mammoth ranch with pala-
tial residence az Cotton. Gala, II II
known also that his wife has endeav-
ored 10 prevail upon him Co retire
from railroadinE. lie had completed
his service as receiver for the Rock
Island when he became president az
the Denver and Rio Grande two years
ago, succeeding u. y. bush,
New Man Wen Known.
During the administration OF Presi-
dent Hush. Brown was vice president
OF tho Denver and Iio Grande. lie
was general manager Of the Great
Northern and later president OF the
Minneapolis and e. Louis brown
has been In conference at ST. Louis
the past week with II. y. Bush, now
president OF the Missouri Pacific.
Immediately after the resignation
OF Kingdom Gould his place on the
directorate board OF the Denver and
Rio Grande was filled by 3, n. Rice
of New York. This upsets certain call
culations. for II was expected that
Gould's place would be filled by ]. w,
Piatten ~ New York and that Benja-
min n. McAlpine would be replaced
as director by J. Horace Harding OF
New York. Platten and Harding have
been representatives Of the stockhold-
ers' protective committee Of the Den
yer and Ilio Grande and the Missouri
Pacific,
Liberty bonds Sold.
I'm a dispatch from New York IL Is
Announced that the t3,O32. 900 of lib
erty bonds ordered sold by the federal
court at public auction % satisfy a
claim ~ the Equitable Trust company
against the Denver and Rio Grandc
4 were bought one day last week by j.
l.. Morgan q co. at par and interest,
lplus one hundred dollars.
The Equitable Trust company wac
mortgage OF bonds OF the Western
I Pacific railroad. which were guaran-
teed by the Denver and Rio Grande.
Moneys claimed 20 be due on the
bonds from the Denver and Rio
Grande were invested In liberty bonds
pending the outcome OF the litigation,
which was decided IN favor of the
trust company.