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Show Stevens Made Frisco Agent. The appointment of Colonel A. II. Stevens Stev-ens as general agent at Denver of the St. Louis & San Francisco railway, popularly popu-larly known as tho Frisco, Is officially announced. The appointment is very popular with local railway men in Sail Lake as well as with Ctah shippers, with whom the colonel has an cxlenslvo ae- ' iliialntanee and is n great favorite. As representative, llrst of the Central Savannah Sa-vannah ami subsequently of the Seaboard Air Line. Mr. Stevens hns spent much time umoug Utah shippers for a period of years. The colonel Is a typical southern south-ern gentleman, urbane, convivial and has a national reputation as a raconteur. As a story-teller ho has fev.- equals. As well as being all these things, lie is a railroad rail-road man of varied experience, blth In operating and traffic departments. The selection of Colonel Stevens for the western representative of the Frisco line, coming as he does from the Seaboard Air Line, is regarded by local railroad men as Indicating the maintenance of the solidarity of the well-established ocean find rail route from seaboard points to Utah, known among shippers as the Seaboard Sea-board Air Line route, which is made up of the Seaboard Air Line railway. Frisco line and the Rock Island. Following the segregation of the Rock Island -Frisco lines it was regared as probable that this route would be broken up. but Colonel Slovene's well known close relations with both the Seaboard Air Line and the Hock Island removes all grounds for such conjecture. con-jecture. Mr. Stevens will visit Salt Lake City in the near future and establish a Frisco line agency hcie. |