Show r Prominent S Western Railroad Men I Joseph S. S Wells Salt Lake Product By Birth Training and Reputation From tAke Make driver with nn on engineering corps running a survey s for a now railroad rail ran r road road ad to general manager of one ono of oC the tho bet best street et car systems In the thc world Is the record of ot JN Joseph Jaseph ph S. S Yells Wells general manager of ot tho the Utah Light and nd Railway company Mr Wells Is a 11 Utah boy He lie wan UJ born In this Ida city and has bax spent practically all aU of his lila ur life here He is a a. son Bon of Daniel II and Martha G. G Harris Harrill Wells eUs His father was counselor to Brigham Youn Young Youns for tor a n number of years oars and waa was mayor of oC Salt Lake Lako City for live five consecutive t terms from to 1876 The title to practically oven every piece of or real estate estalo in Salt ll Lake City passed from tho to United States government with U. U S. S Grant a ft as p president to Daniel Hells H. H Wells ells ami then down to tho the present owners The Tho abstract of title to your Salt Lake real estate will prove pro this In addition to being the son eon of one of the most prominent of or the tho pioneers Mr Wells is tho Urn borther of tho tIm first governor of Utah after aCter It became a state the only governor io who ho was twice elected to the office Mr Ir Wells however did not rise mo to his present position on account of family connections but through sheer force of personal ability Born Bom In tn Salt Lake City May IRY 25 15 5 1862 ho received a n. common school education Later he lie attended the University of Deseret now tho the University of Utah At 1 tho the age of 16 years he left heft tho the university to become a member of an engineering corps which was O survey ing hog for tho the line lino which now now runs rum from Lehi Lehl Junction to Tintic Ho lie was wa employed em em- as a n stake driver but before h he quit tho the job had lied become This job completed the young oung man turned his attention to the mercantile 1 business and for tor two years cars iwas was connected with the Ogden branch of ot tho the Z C. C M. M I. I I. I Ills His next Job was that of a a. clerk In a local Insurance office during which he hc found time to write a number of policies not one ono of which ever lapsed His next occupation was far removed from railroads or insurance For a n little littleover oV over r two to years earn he ho was a missionary traveling In In England Returning to Salt Lake L. City he again gain entered tho time railroad world and on May Mar 1 I 1899 was as appointed secretary and treasurer of or the Salt Lako City Railroad company a position which ho held hold until the thc cons consolidation of that company with the old Rapid Transit company under tIme the namo namo of tho the Consolidated Consolidated Con Con- I Railway and Power company This consolidation which was engineered and largely financed b by A. A W. W McCune Included tho the old street car company tho the Rapid Transit com company pan and the Utah Power company compan Mr r. r Wells Veils was made matJe secretary and of the tho no now company and at atthe atthe the same samo time was Voas selected as private secretary of Mr Ir McCune a 11 position which be still holds despite time the fact that Mr McCune spends less than one month In twelve In this city January 1 1 1904 1901 the company was again reorganized under the tho title of tho the Utah Light and Railway company which Included In- In eluded In addition to tho time other companies S S f L 4 S JOSEPH S. S WELLS taken over under tho the former consolida tion tho the plant and equipment of ot the Utah Light and Power company Mr Mi r. r Wells was named as second lc vice president p t. t di director director director di- di rector and assistant treasurer of the new company In September 1906 tho the local street car r system was as purchased by tho the late lato E. E II Jr Harriman and Mr Wella Webs won was appointed as assistant general manager a n position which he held until March arch 1 1907 when he was made mado general manager Quiet and unassuming at all alt times Mr Ir Wells has a a. host of friends among tho the high bight officials of thc the street car system and the tIle employees It Is said of him that no employee of the company has ever been denied a a. conference when ho had bad a n. complaint to make snake That th the complaint complaint com corn plaint was carefully listened to and con con- Under Mr Ir Wells Welts as ha general manager of the Utah Light and Railway the tho system has grown In less 1085 than four years ears from a n Justly berated system to toone toone toone one of or tho the best and most up to date In thc tho United States |