Show RAILROAD JiKWS JirBennett Eccles Successor The Rumored Consolidation The official announcement of the appointment ap-pointment of J H Bennett to fill S W EccleV shoes ns General Freight and Passenger agent of the D It G W created some surprise here and it was at first discredited Mr Eccles said he knew nothing of ltill he sawit in print It was verified later on however and it is stated that Mr Bennett will be here today He has acted as auditor of the road in the past and he is not very well known in this city Report gives him the reputation however of being as keen and shrewd a business man us could have been found in the Little Gmni corps Mr S W Eccles was asked by a reporter re-porter what he thought of the rumored consolidation of the two D R U roW His reply was that he knew they weru working very hard to accomplish accom-plish it and he rather thought it would accomplished some time this year It would have to be an outandout mrchase of the Western however he thought The majority of the Western bonds were held by the D It U people peo-ple but the stock would all have to be ought up before there could be a consolidation con-solidation |