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Show MBLEf m: 1 His Re-election Said to Indicate In-dicate Growing Control in Railroad I J Thursdays San Pranoisco Bulletin published the following article: N Bishop C. W . Niblcy of the Mormon Mor-mon church of Utah who is the admitted ad-mitted financial genius. ( thai Utah fiii rarchy, was re-elected a a dlrec- Ur of the Western Pacific Railroad I company of California at it-s annual I meeting In this city This Is said to Indicate the growing volume of Mormon Mor-mon church wealth Invested in tho Western Pacific and Its newly acquired adjunct the Denver .N: Ri Grande-Western Grande-Western railroad, between Salt Lake and Denver. It Is said that it was this Nlbley influence that dictated the recent appointment ap-pointment of Joseph If Young oj the new president of tho Denver railroad property. VIBLEY-GOl LI) HARMONIZE. The Nibley investment and the sole remaining Gould holding In the San FranciaCO-'Salt Lake and Denver railroad rail-road properties, that of day Gould's daughter, Mrs I-'lniey J. Shepperd of New York, are known to be working In absolute hnrmony with the regime of Banker Alvln W. Kreok of New York, the chairman of tho Western Pacific, and also of the f Delaware holding company. Tho latter concern lost Its San Francisco director day before yesterday yester-day by the death of George W Whlt-tell. Whlt-tell. It Is ald his place, has been offered to former I n.tid Slates Senator Sen-ator James d. Phelan of this city. PRESIDENT RE-ELI TED. At a meeting this afternoon the stockholders ot ire- Western Pacific indorsed tin- presidency of Charles M Levey by re-electing iiim a director, and practically all of the old members mem-bers of the board. The latter are to continue Levey in tin; presldencj The formal opening of the San Jose branch ol the company for freight and passenger traffic, and Its competitive, competi-tive, bid again-1 the .southern Pacific for a share of the Santa Clara alley al-ley fruit traffic this year are part of the company's new program lor 1922. |