Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-05-15 | Page 6 | Shops May be Taken over on First of Month

SHOPS MAY SE TAKEN OVER ON FIRST Of MONTH J. Q. Barlow, asslntant chief nirlneer of thf Southern Pacific, with headquarters headquar-ters In San Fra-nolaco. passed several he nr. in Ogden lodav Mr. Barlow is at the head of the dp-partment dp-partment of malntt-n Anc- of way of the Southern Pacific and. while In "the eltv. made, a tour of Inspection around th local arrLs and shops, in company with Superintendent T. F- Rowlands and Master Mechanic D .1 Malone The distinguished official In a conversation conver-sation this morning recalled the time when h retdded In Ogden In the late eighties In 1SS9 and W he ald he hai charge of the construction and reconstruction recon-struction of the old narrow gang rotd between Ogden and Pocatello with an office In the old wooden depot of the f'tah Central, which stood on a plot of giound In thf Ogden yards, that Is now covered with freight tracks. He also commented very favorably on the no-tireabh no-tireabh rapid growth of Ogden. Mr. Barlow wis asked as to when the local railroad shops would be transferred from the Oregon Short Line to the Southern Pacific and his answer wa that, according to talk at headquarters about ten days ago. the change probably would be made soon. In the opinion of one of the Ogdn officials of the Southern Pacific, the shop6 will be t-aken over as soon as the new Oregon Short Line shops at Pocatello Poca-tello nre completed. Mr. Baj-low left for San Francisco this afternoon on No. 9. rvy-v