Show WILL MOVE RIO GRANDE OFFICES Force in l the e Traffic rr Department toBe to Be VS P r AT NAMPA APPEARANCE A OP OF E B BUCKING HAM BAE CAUSES COMMOTION 4 t If It are true it Ii be buta but short time before of the ollices in the traffic department dop of the Rio Grande willbe vill be moved mo d to Denver A prominent railroad man in who has hiis lately l returned from f om Denver said yes yesterday yesterday yesterday that such a plan lion Ison foot The Ther r move would be no surprise s to the local public Ever since the headquarters of the Rio Grande Western were ere moved to Denver the few departments de remaining have followed until flour n v the force here Is reduced to a comparatively c small one The force however Is still larger than it I t is claimed the company needs at this end The object Is to have the traffic department represented pres here by byone byone one commercial agent who will have charge of the traveling freight agents the same as Is done irr hr the case of the theother theother theother other companies which have offices here Such a move has been expected and the change has been prophesied from time to time so 50 that the public has become reconciled to the ity Indicates Gould The change would it is understood involve all the traffic department of offices flees including the treasurers office and would result In the reduction of or considerable clerical help This move movement movement ment is however only preliminary to what Is believed ved to be the eventual con consolidation consolidation tf of the entire Gould systems This possibility has been paraded III in inthe I the papers upon numerous occasions of late and the reports have invariably I i had their source in New York City The plan involves the merging of the east eastern eastern ern era and southern Gould lines as well I I as the Missouri Pacific and the Rio Grande systems s Stems I The change is one that is expected I I and several weeks ago it was reported In the dispatches from New York that thata I a plan with this end In view had al already already already ready been consummated When the I details are finally carried out it is probable probable probable able that the various railroad systems in which Gould Is a controlling influence influence ence will w be operated from St Louis I as this would be a central point and I would mean an enormous reduction In Inthe inthe Inthe I the cost of operating expenses |