El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-21
THE CORRALITOS ROAD.
A Pleasant Trip Down the Line Satur-
day by a Number of Citizens.

Contractor George Look escorted
over thirty Invited guests Saturday
afternoon down the completed line OF
the COrralitOs road to the overhead
Mexican Central crossing, eight miles
down the country, on special. Among
the pilgrims were Judge FaIvey, Dr.:
Thompson, Col. Winn, Mr.. Johns, of
the English dam company, County
Clerk Pitman, Adolph Solomon, NJ. B.
Davis, Judge Townsend. Manager
Steele, of the Western Union, Johnny
Steffian, Conductor Allen, j. J. Taylor,
Jersey McPike, press representatives
and others.
Accommodations were provided on
| fiat car, and as the day was warm and
pleasant, the ride and the scenery were
much enjoyed. The road bed is we'll
built and the track, though new, has
been run over at the rate of fifty miles
an hour with safety There are but two
curves ere reaching the bridge, and
the gradients do not amount to anything
except at the crossing approaches.
These approaches are each from a
quarter to third of a miles long, with
a grade of l! per cent, which
brings the floor of the bridge twenty
feet above the Mexican Central
track. The line was originally sur
veyed north of that point so that
the crossing was at grade. However,
this was not allowed by the govern
no ent, through somebody's influence, |
and an over head crossing was ordered. |
This change cost the COrralitos rail-
road company lot of extra money
and in the future when the business of
the road becomes heavy, a helper
engine may be needed at the bridge,
unless the length of the approaches are
doubled. Over 10000 cubic yards of
earth were required to build these
a NJ hri oa iS /,
feet long, and contains 10000 feet of
timber The last touches in the finish
ng were being put on while the party {
we're down there, and the rails were |
aid this morning, SO that the cOnstruc 7
ion train is now running over it. 7
Nineteen bridges have had to be built /
n the eight miles stretch beyond the S
rossing, ere the top OF the mesa is c
cached, and the track layers are now c
cushing on with the track at the rate r
# mile per day. The rails are 56 !
bs. steel, and with 1850 ties to the i
nile. The grade is ompleted for |
hirty miles, and as the overhead cross {
ng is now completed. the bridge gang C
ill be able to keep out of the way of 5
be track men. G
The yards of the company are chock +
Ill of cars loaded with material ready r
)r the front, and this material is now n
eing used as rapidly as possible. The D
ards include sixty acres already s.
irgely covered with spurs and sidings s.
nd spurs are being put n at the lower a
ards capable of holding several Il
urdred cars. Then in addition to the ii
yo locomotives in use at present, a a
lird engine, number 20, has been Z
ought for 50, 500 from the bankrupt a.
bad running out OF Hot Springs, Ark, il
nd the machine is now in the Texas rt
Pacific round bouse in this city lc
lady to be run over the line. She is
Baldwin Mogul with 1926 inch
+! feet driving wheels, and la
ith tender and all in running order, ir
eighs seventy tons. The engine has %;
ally never been used, as the road II
lat bought it from the Philadelphia pI
akers went into the hole ere it be- al
me an accomplished fact, and as the in
aldwins never make anything but a T
)od engine, the COrralitos people are
re of very serviceable machine.
Not few railroad men who have P
sited this part of the country in the -.
st few weeks have been taken down 50,
'er the line, aud they all express
emselves as highly pleased with the
editable way in which the road is r
ing built, and the outlook for busi II
,ss. The members of Saturdays -
.rty warmly congratulated Contract :"
Look on the excellent character of