Show RAILWAY RUMBLES Personals and General Notes of Interest Ninetynine years is the term of the lease of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Naviga-tion company line t the Oregon Short Line of the Union Pacific The latter guarantees the payment of the interest on land and 6 percent on the stock Thomas J Potter for several years the executive head of the executye Burlington Missouri system of railroads becomes first vicepresident of the Union Pacific system on the 15th of May which means that the operation of that vast railroad property runniiig from the Missouri river to the land where rolls the Oregon Ore-gon with its system of feeders in Nebraska Ne-braska Kansas Colorado Wyoming Utah Idaho Montana and Oregon will be his special duty he taking the place of S R Callaway a General Manager of the road and its extensive laterals Mr Potter has made a remarkable record a a successful railroad man and i he has his way about it he will be likely to cause a stirring among the dry bones of the sleepy old Union Pacific Railway I has been the policy of the B M under Mr Potters management t encourage the development of the local resources and indusiries of the country through which it has passed and hip may perhaps per-haps introduce this policy into the management man-agement of the U P Laramir Sentinel |