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Show I : HARRY BtlRNETT ; GETS PROMOTION Former Salt Laker Assistant 4 i j Freight Traffic Manager of j Lehigh Valley Road. . WAS GENERAL AGENT HERE FOR MIDLAND ! Well Remembered by All Old- .: Timers in Local Railroad ' 1 Every once in a while former Salt 'j Lake railroad men jjo up in the service I and their old friends arc ever interested in the advances. The latest illustration , is the appointment, of Harry C. Bur nett as assistant; freight traffic, man-Acer man-Acer for the Lehigh Valley railroad with office at New York City. The ' circular of appointment is signed by i Freight Traffic Manager C. A. Blood and approved by Vice President T. 2sr. Jarvis. Pioneer railroad men in this city j will remember Burnett for he was gen- eral agent, hero for the Colorado Mid-" Mid-" land during the time it was owned by the Santa Fe and after. Jle made a if host of friends and livod hero for a i long time about twenty years ago. He ; was the first general agent lo move- 1 into the new Dooly block, where he J fitted up very fine rooms for those l( da vs. j The Lehigh Valley is the most im- 1 portanr. factor in the anthracite sit uation in the Bast and in feral trnf-: trnf-: fic it is a remarkable system. Its main line extends from New York to ' Buffalo with branches all over and as : a passenger line it is very strong. The promotion of this former Salt Laker t to such an important; place on so great a system will be cause for congratulation congratula-tion from all his old friends. : The Tribune remembers him with es pecial pleasure as he was one of the men who helped to first encourage railroad rail-road news and many a good story originated orig-inated in his office. |