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Show RAILROAD NEWS been appointed ,sst. Supt. of .. the Portland division, with headquarters at Portland, Oregon, vice William Wilson, promoted. We still hear the same old complaint, com-plaint, ho houses to rent. Will have to maintain our families in Salt Lake. Thereare now four families looking for houses and not as much as a standard shack to rent. The Baldwin Locomotive Works for the year ending Dec. 31, 1917, turned out 2,748 locomotives at a cost of $63,455,574. Their total business for the year amounted to $98,263,865. This includes shell contracts and other work. W. A. Randow has been appointed master mechanic of the first division of the D. & R. G., with headquarters at Pueblo, Colo. H. C. Stevens, master mechanic of the D. & R. G. at Alamosa, has been appointed Supt. of the Burnham shops. J. L. Fagan has been appointed master mechanic at Alamosa. F. T. Owens has been appointed master mechanic at Grand Junction. H. A. Connett has been appointed chief train dispatcher of the eighth and ninth districts, and the Park City branch of the ' Union Pacific with office at Evanston, Wyo. The U. S. Government has placed an additional order for five hundred low side gons, 375 high side gons and 2 00 box cars for use of the American Am-erican rail lines in France. The State of Minnesota raised 33,000,000 bushels of potatoes last year. They now have 13,000,000 bushels of potatoes on hand which are spoiling for want of a market, principally for the want of refrigerator refriger-ator cars to move them. |
