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Show ihwifir I ISCIFIC I Some Who May Comprise the I Personnel of New Gould I A. E. WELBY TO BE I NAMED GENERAL MANAGER B Wadleigh and Derrah May Harp I Charge of Passenger and Freight Departments. Ml rn a little more than a month, at j the latest, the Western Pacific will be- III gin the operation of trains from SaI6 MM Lake City to 'Stoptoe, the station at which connection is maSo with the N- H yada Northern. . This connection -with the Nevada road is a valuable one to bait Lake City, because it opens up the Lly, Cherry Creek and other dis- H .tncts to the commerce of this city, H and brings the mines and communities H or that section in closer touch with' H this city. But before the actual operation oi H no road Wis there is much pre- hminary work to be done by Western H leads to the query as to who these ofl.cials will be. While the informa- jou ls not authoritative, still it come, lint V 0l-!V,aU!l,,y informed uiat A. h. Welby, now ceneral ?unerin-endent ?unerin-endent of the "Denver & Eic- Grande-, Gould hne;. at Jeast he will have the eastern division under his control, and IZliV y bB ?c this end that trains wil be operated at present. As cen- H ' "adleigh assistant general pa- TO.0 ucl ticket agent of the Denver io Grande at Denver, is mentioned. H and b. V. Derrah has been succested as general freight agent. As has been said, these names arc 1H not given ofhcially. but they appear H to be natural selections. Mr. WIbv ! is Jamiliar with the countrv through which the Western Pacific passes, and he has been a successful operating om- 1 cial Nr. Wadleigh and Mr. Derrah are both competent officials, and stand well with the powers that be. And certain it is that tho appointment of ! these officials ranr.-ot bo Jong delayed. WM Passenger rntes will have lo be ar- H ranged befor- trains can be operated, S and this must be t'one by a competent il official ot the road. Freight tariff fl sheets will have to be propared. and IH they must be signed lyy a properly authorized official, so that it can bo H readily seen that, the appointments must be made in the immediate future. 1 Work on t'. new line in Nevada gos on uninterruptedly. The track is being laid east of Beckwith, and 4000 feet, about, one-half, has beon IH bored in the Chilcoot tunnel. Track laying will soon commence from Sacra- jH monto north to a point forty miles east of Oroville, which will connect with the track already laid from Oakland. The first eight miles of grade west of Winnemucca is nearing completion, and in a sl-on time the lnrtiest part of tho grading will be done between Winno-mucca Winno-mucca and the California line. |