Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-10-18
RAILROAD JOTTINGS.
News From the Depot and out on the
 Line.

! The shops here gre rushed wi,h work,
 mostly repa rs CI agnes. ! Many old Drakemen are acting as con ductors during the fall rush. l Globes heavy shipment make Wilcox
 one of the important stations of late. Businesss has not been better for years on the Southern Pacific than it is this fall.
 Engineer c. N. Wilcox has been grant
 ed leave of absence for a vacation in California.
 1 Seven solid trains of Sunsets" load ] ed with caHned goods, passed through
 going east yesterday.
 The southwestern agreement controls
 the business of 26, 6,373 mics of tram track
 and 7516 miles of steamship lines. Another car load of Mexican laborers to work on the 4 iantic S Pacific at Williams, Arizona, was sent out last
 evening.
 The seventh annual convention of the
 Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen will
 convene in Los Angeles on the l6th | inst,
 Two engines, numbers 11O and l31, have been brought here from the Los | Angeles division, and one is now runn-
 ing to Fl Paso, the other to Yuma. The Texas & Pacific has hauled up to
 date over the road this season 6O,OOO | bales of cotton, an increase of nearly 5000 bales for the same period of last year.
 The construction of 3182 miles of rail-
 way in the United States during the last nine months is a good record, and
 the closing months of the year will make
 it 5000 miles.
 A big celebration is going on today at Fixes Peak in commemoration of the | completion of the Pike's Peak railroad. | Owing to the advanced season the road
 will not be regularly operated this year.
 Another inclined railway is to be con structed on the east side of Lookout
 mountain. It will not extend in a straight direction up the side of the
 mountain, but will take on obhque start. There will only be one short heavy
 grade, and only one curve, near the top.
 For the month of August the earnings
 of the Pullman company increased S2O, 902 over the same period last year, and ings increased S115,805. The 20O0 acres
 of land which the Pullman company
 owns adjoining the town of Pullman
 may safely be said to represent a profit
 of not far from eight million dollars.
 There seems to be something of cool ness now existing among the members
 of the various labor organizations now in the employ of the New York Central
 railroad company. The Brotherhoods
 of the Locomotive Engineers, Bremen
 and Switchmen's union have united against the Knights of Labor, and it
 now looks as if the latter would be oblig-
 ed to go. This is the beginning of the
 end.
 Kansas has more miles of railroad than
 all the New England states put together. She has 1,159 more miles than the Elm
 pire state of New York, whose popula- tion and wealth surpasses Kansas four to one. She has more than the great states of Pennsylvania, Iowa or Texas. Kansas today has 8,754 miles of railroad. Illinois alone surpasses her with 9,OOO. Next comes Iowa with 8,364 miles. This morning at 3:15 a. m. small
 wreck occurred along the Cienega, in a cut three miles east of the scene of the
 wreck in which poor Ed. Allis was kill ed. A flat car was loaded with iron, which projected on to another car. The
 load was very heavy and the axle broke,
 while the train was going at fair rate
 of speed, tearing up the track very bad ly for short distance, and demolishing
 the two cars of iron and badly breaking the caboose. in which were conductor Tommy O'Kelley and brakeman Bob Ownly, whose escape seems almost mlra-
 culous. The train was quickly brought to halt, and word sent back to Panta-
 no. A wreck train was soon on the scene and at g o'clock the track was again clear.