Show II iMPORTANT ANT POST FOR WHITTEMORE II I i Ii Ij I j Leaves Salt Lake Route for I Las Vegas Tonopah i Railway TO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES I V 4 I VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL I II I I I COUNSEL OF NEVADA LINE After fter a lifetime lIt spent In Salt Lake City closely identified with the in industrial l and political history of the city and state stale C 0 O Whittemore has severed his connections here and will willin I in the tile future live in Los Angeles Mr Ur t I I Whittemore yesterday resigned his po poi position I i sWon as general attorney for the Salt I I Lake Route and will wi in lii the future de dee devote vote his entire attention to the devel drel d vel of the Las Vegas Tonopah railway of which he is the vice rice I Ident Ident dent and general counsel Fennel Pennel Pennell J Cherrington herrington succeeds Mr Ir Whittemore Wh I as counsel for fOI the theS Stilt Salt lt Lake LaI Route Rout here lIer lIerAs As general g attorney for the Salt Lake Route with jurisdiction in Iii Utah etah and Nevada eHda and president of the Las Vegas Yel s Land Water Yater company compan Mr Ir work occupied so much of his time that he felt that he lie was vas up able ble to give gi the tho th rapidly developing Las lal Vegas Tonopah railway raI Iya the proper I attention This Tills little road is proceed I iner ing In swiftly into Goldfield Already miles s of the tilt road is in operation and by Sept 1 I trains will be b running be tween tw n Las Vegas and Goldfield a dis distance tance of OO miles mile The TIle purpose is to I ext nd the line to Tonopah as quickly j as possible and alid two branch lines are contemplated For these reasons Mr Ir Whittemore decided dt to sever sev r his con connection with the Salt Lake I ake Route His resignation at as general attorney went into effect yesterday Mr Ir Whittemore Wilt wiH also resign the presidency of the Las LaM Vegas egas Land Water Yater company as soon as practicable Offices in Los Angeles Angelest Mr Mi t Whittemore leaves this evening for Cor where he will be the or orator orator orator ator of the day da at the big Fourth of i July celebration From From there He lie will trill go to Los Angeles An eles t to establish the gen general eral offices of the Las Vegas Tono Tonopah J pali pah railway There will be a branch I I office In lit Goldfield The rhe headquarters of I Ithe the railroad will trill be in lit Los Angeles but Mr 11 Whittemore plans on spending much of his time in Nevada keeping keepin in ill close touch with the progress of the enterprise and the development of the Nevada industries Closely Closel connected since its inception with the proposition of building a road between Salt Lake and Los Angeles few railway men in the west are better known than C 0 O Whittemore He was born in Salt Lake 1862 He was vas graduated from front St Marks school and j in 1883 and 1884 took a law course at Columbia college New York City I After Af r finishing his law course at Co i I I lumbia college Mr Ir Whittemore re r I I turned to Salt Late Lake City since continued in the successful practice of his profession proCession He served as attorney of or Salt Lake county count prior to the admission of Utah asa as a state After statehood in 1835 he became dis attorney for foi the county and later on Utah etah United States district attorney for I I |