The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-03-15
Winnemucca Is Years Ago Today
From The Daily Silver State

o The following brief sketches of I'M oldtime conductors is from the o
Q Reno Gazette: 1t has been the settled policy of the best railroad man Q
. ayers to change men al Iue as possible. and this has been a strong Q
Q point always with the Central Pacific road. Men like General superin- Q
0 tendent J.. A Fillmore and his aides. who have all been o n top of freight Q
. trains themselves, know that to know the road and the customs of the Q
0 country adds greatly to a mans value In contributes to the success of .
o the system. The most successful division o. the road, perhaps, has been Q
o the Truckee, having hardly an accident for a core Of years unit. that Q
o at Saliva made up for lost time. Q
o Among the first names O IN the payroll of the company are several that Q
Q re now running between Truckee and Carlin. W. G. Case came from the @
Q Union Pacific in 1869, and has u a train IN this division longer than Q
o any other mar. He is one of the best men, too, that a railroad ever had
o sober. trustworthy and honest a the SUI He was born in Columbus, .
o Ohio, 10 long ago that he never tells the date. When he struck the road .
o 1t "a at Promontory. :"
o j B. McGonagle struck the C P. in 1868 and broke the road to Clarks y
o station. He crossed the Truckee at wadsworth OF the temporary bridge Q
Q and struck ut eastt through the sage-hmber on Goose Neck hill He q
Q worked for the road when it was the shoshone division n Andy Ryder y
y and George Woods we're running to the front where :. N. Campbell was =
o SUPERINTENDENT Among the old conductors of that day, Marshall was q
o killed o the hill, Chamberlain died of consumption, Clinch OF Brghts y
o disease. Woods of brain trouble: and Harry Davis. while lieutenant gov Q
o ernor. of heart disease. Uncle George Cornwall too, went long ago Q
o Hugh Darrah is a cattle king in Paradise Valley, Andy Ryder is in .
o politics in Oakland, we'll to 10 and much respected. y
o George H. Rice was train master at Carlin in 1870, DR.. :. j Meiggs was y
o in EIo and W. r. Chamberlain and wills Bender had the eating house 1t 2
Q Canin. C. Gillette, who was division superintendent Is o. steward Oh y
. the Masonic Temple in Oakland, taking life Easy o a wellearned Q
o competence. R. S. Mattson, also a superintendent is n tn companys :"
o emnlov in California. :. H. Whited, Sc long superintendent here came "
o out in 1870 Is dispatcher at Carlin. and has been in charge of tn dv- "
Q sion for nearly fifteen years. He was born in New York in 1851, n is "
o a thorough teegrapher and ranma lie carry maoe d home AIMING u
. and has a promising son ats Stanford.
o NJ T. Coats. the well known conductor, has had al eventful life. ii "
o enlisted al fifteen and came to this coast while a boy. He wen TO wofK
o on the sheds in 1863 and has been o the payroll ever since. He has .
o been a locomotive engineer, and from that went tic the hind mi o. he =
@ train to ri al conductor. He had his share of accidents, in ne or when "
o the fireman was killed and another where the engineer "a crippled D.
o a big smashup between Bishop Deeth MI. ooa" " " no
. Ashtabula county, Ohio
o George Derbyshire, a popular man, cam ut n 1875, and like a lot u "
o good men with interesting histories, is toe modest to talk n rahroao
o boys go through a good deal to serve Tn puphc' n &c to niue ie0oe
o milton for the great work they do
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