Show ABILITY AND TALENT recognized it is an old saying that there is always room at the top and the truthfulness of this statement has again been verified by the recent promotion of H V croll of salt lake city to a position in the main office of the allis chalmers company in chicago for nearly three years mr croll has had the management of the salt lake office of this gigantic and popular company and during his stay here he has made a host of friends who will greatly regret his leaving but who as greatly rejoice over his well merited promotion and advancement during his sojourn in zion mr croll has been prominently identified with many measures calculated to advance the interest of both city and state he has been a leading member of the commercial club and has been an enthusiastic advocate and admirer of clean sports in fact he has demonstrated that 14 1 ar 11 HV V CROLL he is an allaround all around man and as such will be much missed by our best b est citizens his successor here hefe has not as yet been named and until this is done the affairs of the salt lake office will be attended to by robert J cory of the denver branch of the company the local staff here to remain as before mr croll was born in boston in the year 1866 in 1884 he moved to denver and entered the employ of the hendy meyer engineering gi company as draughtsman which position he held until 1895 when he came to salt lake city to fill an engagement with the germania lead works as engineer in i the designing remodeling and rebuilding of the germania plant under the direction of superintendent J H tucker in this position he served for a period of six months when he returned to denver and accepted a position as superintendent of the denver engineering works remaining with this es until january 1 1897 when he accepted an offer from the edward P allis company of milwaukee after being with this company in milwaukee for three years he was assigned to spokane wash where he was superintendent of the companas comp anys branch office at that place until july 1 1901 upon the consolidation of the edward P allis company with fraser chalmers gates iron works and the dickson manufacturing fac turing company under the firm name of allis chalmers co mr croll moved to salt lake city and ever since has been advancing the interests of the allis chalmers company in this intermountain region in which work he has been eminently successful during his stay here he has been a warm friend of the mining review and this paper although realizing the honors of his promotion regrets exceedingly his change of residence |