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Show Railroad News j VIA WIRELESS I Train Master Farrier was in Mil-ford Mil-ford this week. Brakeman Meikle is on the extra board this week. Conductors Wheat and Ernst are on the lay off board this week. Brakemen Snyder and Capell are on the lay off board this week. E. J. Hall is the general foreman at the new shops located at Provo. Supt. H. E. VanHousen was in Milford last week in his business car. The extra board was carrying quite a load this last Wednesday ev ening. 1 Bulletin Xo. 2536 Remember, boys. Turn In all old material for new. Conductor Tom Gleeson was called call-ed to Lob Angeles on a committee meeting this week. Caliente must be some town when v passenger brakemen cannot be found to protect No. 8 out of there. Engineer Langenbecker will be with us as soon as he gets his tool box and cans from Salt Lake. There are reported to be several Kood positions awaiting first class mechanics at the new Provo shops. NOTICE Do not fail to read Bulletins Bul-letins 1439 and 1438, which are posted in the regular bulletin hoard. General Foreman Gailey is laying off for a week or ten days. He will visit various eastern points while, away. Two full train loads of automobiles automo-biles passed through Milford Wednesday Wed-nesday morning enroute to Los Angeles. An-geles. Day Yard Clerk Walter Ernst resigned re-signed his position and will join the aviation corps. He was relieved by Mr. Earl. It's alright, old top, with us. Call it milk that made you sick if you want to. We never did blame a cow in all ou'r life. j I It is understood that our General i Storekeeper T. A. Ream is to be j transferred to Provo. Hope this is not true, Tom. Conductor' Marksheffel put the rollers under Conductor Manning on the Frisco branch work train. Jess is again a regular conductor. The new time card No. 52 went into effect December 2, 1917, at 12:01 a. m., mountain time. All concerned will note the changes made. Why is it that young men not yet old enough to dispense with- the I nipple, try to tell a man who has had forty years experience, how to railroad? The missing nut and flat wheel detectives are kept rather busy these days in the Milford yards. If you think they are not regular sleuths, just watch them bad order a few. Mr. Kirkpatrick, who was doing relief work at the local freight office as cashier, has moved his family to Caliente, where he will accept a position po-sition as cashier for the Salt Lake Route. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Clinton have returned re-turned from Los Angeles. Mr. Clinton Clin-ton resumed his duties at the local freight house as cashier. It is understood un-derstood that Mr. and Mrs. Clinton will make Milford their future home. L. A. & S. L. R. R. Month of Sept.' Average mileage operated during period, 1,153 miles. Revenues Freight revenue 6 4 3,630 Passenger revenue 275,335 Total rev, inc. misc 1,000,777 Operating Expenses Maintenance of way struct.? 95.71S Equipment .. 145,377 Traffic 32,463 Transportation 303,354 General 22,125 Total 614. 90S Operating ratio, 60.96 Net from R. R. operation, $393,868. Operating income, $333,617. : Decrease compared with same month : ' last year, $60,164. of soldiers have already taken out insurance. Up to date policies of Insurance In-surance have been issued aggregating aggregat-ing $1,032,938,000. |