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Show SEVERAL SHOPMEN MOVED TO CALIENTE f From the rumors flying thick and fast, it was definitely ascertained this week that about twenty employes at the roundhouse are to be transferred to the Caliente Union Pacific shops within thirty days. Leaving at once are Leo Harton, Earl and Harold Dewey. The transfer of Frank Farmer Farm-er to Lund is expected also. Foremen were noncommittal regarding re-garding other moves. When asked about further changes contemplated, Shop Foreman Morley said that the local Athletic club was building the best tennis court in the state. It was impossible to interview Master Mechanic Mech-anic Wilcox as this paper went to press while he was out of town. The transfers will reduce the local shops force to a little over two-thirds of its present strength. The car department de-partment will not be affected; clerks can only guess if their offices are to be maintained here. Trainmen will of course be unaffected, as train crews will continue to be made up at this point. Reasons said to exist for the changes are to increase the runs for locomotives. Slow' changes have been taking place in Milford since the first of the year, but are being done so gradually that business interests have been unaffected. To offset the removal of the roundhouse round-house men, Milford business men point to the fact that there are now many more miners employed in the Star mining district than there are shop employes in Milford. These miners have all come here within the past year, and indications show that mining activity here has only made a good start. With this fact in mind, the announcement of the shopmen's transfer made scarcely a ripple in business circles, although these men and their families will be missed in a social way. |