Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-01-13
RAILROAD DOINGS.

The pay car will oisburse is monthly
allowance for Tucson en- the 18th.
A survey is being made for a railway
in Wisconsin from Port Wing 10 Bay
field.
The Big -Four has decided to abandon
:, its Chicago and Indianapolis service out
of louisville.
The Lake Shore has abandoned Its
: through car service TO PittsburI On ac-
: count of poor business.
1t is estimated hat the proposed cleo
trio road between Baltimore and Wash
ington will cost 3 milio4 dollars.
Nearly 500 persons have been killed
and 2,lS0 injured in railroad accidents
in the United States during the last SIX
months.
The Christmas night ball of the
swltchmen at Gallup, New Mexico,
melted the association $40.
East-boUnd shipments from Chicago
during 1893 amounted to 3, 261 $50 tons
against 3,749,65O in 1892 Last weeks
total was 1856.
Railroad men are generally yet un cor
tain about the date of the arrival of the
moRthly pay car.
The Columbus, Hooking Valley & To
ledo railway Will make cut of 10 per
cent on January Is In the wages OF ali
employees receiving more than $50 a
month.
1t is now certain that the Santa Fe,
Prescott & Phoenix railroad will be
completed and ready for tra tfic for at
! least twenty miles south of Prescott
! before April LIST.
Hugh Murphy Is the Oldest engineer,
IN point OF service, running out of l. s
| Vegas, and he presides at the throttle
on the largest engine, Schenectady.
Q. @. Galloway, of Galveston, Texas,
has brought suit in the district court
| against the Colorado Midland railway
| for $50 900 for injuries received in an
| accident at Hartsel ten months ago.
The report of the Northern Pacific re-
ceivers for the mouth of October shows
an increase of S143, 64445 net earnings
ever the net earnings of the previous
month.
The Southern Pacific Railroad COM
pany is shipping from about Castle
Crsgs rock that forms a fine. cement
pavement. Carloads are left daily at
Lincoln.
Gen. Torrance, of Chicago, sage ''the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe will go
back INTO the hands of the president
and board of directors within the year"
He is one of the heaviest stockholders
in the road.
A work train of five cars end o lie
driver left last night for California
properly manned The wo kmen Will
repair bridges and stock Lens between
Tucson and Yuma, and returning do
likewise eastward to FL Psso.
st the Tucson shops freight engine
l65 is being oil NJ sntled and robnilt-
The workwili take about three months
Fonr machinists were la d of the first
of lie year. Plenty Of work IS now or
hand 10 the shops for the present force.
The Tucson railroad library is pros
pe,ng. Plenty of funds are on hand.
They vii. be expended to toe extent of
$3.50 within the next month for the pur-
chase of additional books. The latest
works will be added.
Harry Neff. prominent engineer on
the Northern Pacific, at Missoula, com
mfted suicide with a Winchester rife
The top of his head was completely
blown off. He was ~ years old and had
ben employed here about ten years.
The trunk lines for the year ending
November 80 delivered the their
connecto ps west OF their terminals
l, 459, go tons of freight against 1,554,-
$50 tens for the responding period of
the preceding year.
j. Taylor, St Louis travelling
salesman, filed suit at Cedar Rapids.
Iowa, against the Milwaukee & ST. Paul
railway, asking that judgment for
$4,000, for personal injuries received |
near OMAHA, be awarded.
The Central Pennsylvania and West |
cru railway has FLED a mortgage for |
100000 to the New York Security aud |
Trust company. The money Will be |
used to build a line from Wlliamsport, |
Pa, to W8tsontown, to connect there |
with the Wiikesbarre and West IN rail- |
way.
The earnings of the D. & r. G. rail-
way for the mouth of Decem Der We're |
$3.50. 100. decrease from December of |
1892 of S2l3, 400. The earnings for he |
Year commencing July were 3.4l3. l46.
decrease from the same time of 1892 |
of 81, 81, 537.
Between GOO and 700 men, camped at |
intervals along the first twelve miles |
from Florence to Cripple Greek, Colo, |
are throwing dirt IN the construction OF |
the Florence d Cripple Greek railroad. |
Several miles of the road are already |
completed. Two pile drivers are at |
work in bridging the Arkansas. Work |
on the Midland terminal on the north is |
in progress. The gold camp will have |
two roads by spring.
Receiver j. c. Wilson, of the Atcnison
r. ilway, is receiving hundreds of appiiCa-
tons for positions, which will not De at |
tended to until he returns from New |
York. 1t is expected that the force |
Will be increa ed in ell the mechanical |
and labor departments, as the road has |
been running snort-handed for some |
time. Considerable work is necessary
to be done in improving the track and |
repairing the rolling stock and other
property CT the read.
Thu A, T. & S. T. recaiverahip will
net affect the plans OF the Santa Fe
Hospital association which has already
planned for the building Of the inesg
railway hospital in the west at Tope ka.
This Will make the fifth hospital erected
by this association on he Santa Fe
system proper, the others being at Fort
Madison, Iowa, Ottawa Kas., La Junta,
Colo, and Las Vegas. The hosp ital
system on the At 1hison. Topeka &
Santa Fe is the most complete Ia the
west.
The indications are that when the re-
ceivers reti the S anita Ee system will
De reduced by about LOO miles of
IN ,rofitable. road, observes the New
Mexican Among the branches which
are pointed cut as shining marks for
the new management may he the
Sonora railroad. extending from Benson,
\. Il to Guaymas, Old Mexico, and he
Rainbelt line 10 Kansas, extending