Show LOCAL OFFICIAL I IS AT ATTHE THE COAST Col Cal I A Benton May Be Giving Giving Giving ing Western West rn Pacific Officers Officers Officers cers Information Colonel I A Benton city passenger agent of the Denver Rio Grande railway Is s prolonging his visit to Cali Call California California fornia and although It was announced that he was going to Los Angeles and not to San Francisco railroad men be believe believe believe lieve he will hardly return home with without without without out having visited the new general of offices flees of the Western Pacific in San Francisco For a long time the tion of general passenger agent for the Western Vestern Pacific has settled on either Colonel Benton or F A of Denver It is understood that Colonel Benton declined the place and that ha Mr i Wadleigh has been chosen Colonel Benton Bentons business in San Francisco Is more likelY to be In th capacity of adviser than tha anything else I j No other official of the two roads Is so competent td to make an estimate of the probable proba le passenger revenues of the two roads for the next year ear That the Western Pacific and Denver Rio Grande will wilt be practically one system governed from San Francisco Is the general opinion of railroad men Connecting with the Missouri Pacific at Pueblo and the th Wabash at St Louis the Goulds will have a transcontinental l system If connections at Pittsburg and Toledo are not satisfactory the Goulds now have plenty of ready money to buy a road or two for they have Just sold the controlling Interest In the Western Union Telegraph company for enough to buy several railroads All AU Alof l of Goulds officials know that for years he has been wanting a railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific and they believe his desire is about to be grat grato gratified |