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Show WHITAKER GOES TO UTAH LIGHT Samuel T. Whitaker, the local architect, archi-tect, has been appointed resident manager of the Utah Light & Railway company to succeed Frank Kibler. Mr. Whitaker received a dispatch from Assistant General Manager R. E. Hunt of Salt lake last evening advising him of the appointment and stating that he would oe expected to assume the duties of his office February 15. While bettor known In Ogden as an architect, expert photographer and explorer, ex-plorer, Mr. Whitaker has a thorough hnowledgo of electrical engineering which fits him for his now position. Among the better known buildings designed and erected by Mr Whitaker In Ogden is tho opera house and the Peory mansion now known as tho Virginia. Vir-ginia. Ho also built the famous uata-torium uata-torium at Bolso and the city hall. Mr. Whitaker was commissioner general for Utah at the World's fair at SL Louis and also at the Trans-Misslsslppi Trans-Misslsslppi exposition at Omaha. In ' ' - - ' li"ln-' (Vo PXnorlitiO'lS for archeloglcal research In tho cliff -i i cuAU' t iao Sau Juan country, southern lUtah His report on tho Grand canyon of the Colorado was received by the U S Geological Survey In 1901 and two years later ho organized a similar expedition Into old Mexico. Ho discovered and was the first to photograph Utah's famoiis natural bridges. Mr. Whltaker's parents par-ents crossed tho plains to California in an earh dav anH ho himself was born In a "prairie schooner" en route. oo |