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Show SAN PEDRO MEN MEET IN DESERT Palatial Car and Dusty Buckboard Working Toward Each Other on New Line. eENERAL, MANAGER R. E. "WELLS'S palatial private car of the San Pedro system pulled. out of the local station yesterday for , the north, bearing the general manager and Messrs, McCartney, Bettls and Henderson. Driving up through the dust-laden atmosphere at-mosphere of the desert below Moapa is Chief Englncfer Hawgood and others who arc making the overland journey of nearly 150 nille3 in a buckboard. General Manager Wells and party travel by special train and, en route, they will Inspect the line and new work. At the end of the track nt Moapa Mo-apa they will await Mr. Hawgood, who, coining up from the work of construction con-struction at the California end. will be sadly in need of a T-bone steak and coffee. The ends of the track arc, as already stated, less than 150 miles apart, but It Is a long and dusty stretch of country. Mr. Hawgood Is not accompanied by Vice-President Clark, as was at first given out, but has some of his staff with him on the trip. |