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Show MISSOURI PACIFIC REORGANIZES FORCES B. F. Rusk, preeident of the Missouri Pacific, aaid in Hew York City that his recent Inspection of the property con vincea him 4 hat very few years will be required to make that property the peer of any railroad in the west, says the Boston News Bureau. He found eome very bad conditions bnt none auch aa could not be speedily rectified. Missouri Pacific, he said, had under the departmental plan of operation opera-tion suffered from too much engineering inability. Under the diviaional plan now tin effect there will be fewer engineera en-gineera and more section foreman and construction gangs. - Effective June 19, the system baa beea reclassified into three divisions eaatern, western and southern. Head quarters will be respectively in St. Louis, Kansas City and Little Rock. Mr. Bush atatea that in view of th recent traffle contract with 'Frisco for joint operation of the Iron Mountain a river line between Memphis and Con-eordia, Con-eordia, the eutoff between Memphis and Marianne will be one of the first new construction projecte. This eutoff, forty miles long, will eoet about 1,0W,-000. 1,0W,-000. Coat of putting the river line In ahape, including cutoff, will approximate approxi-mate tl, 230,000. About eeventy-five miles of light rail will be relaid with standard weight. ' Missouri Pacific ia now handling all traffic promptly and trains are making good time with very few delays. Crops needed rain, but reports received Saturday Satur-day show local showers which have relieved re-lieved thia condition. Reductions in maintenance of way and structure ex pendituree during March and April will if poeeible be made np in May and June. The operating ratio in theee two months will, for thia r re so a, ahow s high percentage per-centage to groea. |