El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-18

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Conductor Ames and Allen go to
Maria tomorrow to attend court.
The Santa Fe was about an hour late
today owing to the burning of bridge
near La Junta.
Passenger engine $50 Of the G. H. is
out of the shop and limbered up ready
for regular work again.
| It is figured that the new track east
OF this city will be ready for use in
| about sixty days when the mesa track
will be abandoned.
Manager Van Week of the Allan tic
system of S. 2. tells the mayor th at he
| will take up the Santa F'e and the T. &
P. inBthe matter of the much talked of
dyke.
The engine, baggage car and two
| coaches that went into the ditch wee Ks
ago down near Laguna, Mex, are
there yet in the ditch whence the com
pany have not been yet to extricate
them.
A Santa Fe brakeman, imagined q
switch was set wrong the other day,
and set it to what he thought WAS
right. His right was wrong, and the
engine ran Off onto the ties. He is tied
up for ten days
This mornings T. & P. was delayed
one hour by a small washOut about
twenty five miles east of this city. The
rain water came down from the noun
tains and cleaned out a small trestle
which was replaced with little de-
lay.
1t is reported in local railroad offices
that G. B. Eddy has turned the White
Oaks railway scheme, as far as he is
concerned, over to the Colorado Fuel
& Iron company who will have the
is currently believed as settled fact.
1t is expect that the Santa Fe will con-
meet the White Oaks end of the lire
with Albuquerque or some other con-
venient point of the Rie Grande divi-
siOu.
The Mexican Central continues in
the throes of dropsy, and the clerk of
the weather ems to be the only sur
geOn that can let the water out. The
south bound train last night went only
as far as Montezuma when the track
beyond was found to be in such par
etic condition that i. was thought ad
visable to return. The new rains have
sOftened up the road bed SO that use of
it is at present unsafe. When the
through train from the south will be
up, no one seems to know.
A Santa Fe yard foreman and a
switchman have relief from exhaustiny
toll for ten days for not seeing that
the track was clear. and thus prevent
the derailing of cars they were shuut-
ing. A brakeman will have ten days
in which to write unmOlested, letters
to his girl, for not dropping q switch
lever into the socket thus allo wing an
engine to run Off the track. A con-
ductOr has chance to suck bis fingers
for the usual decade OF days for sign
ing an engineers name to a report
contrary to the statutes herein made
and provided.
There is well authenticated rumor
to the effect that the Los An.
geles Traction company will imme- |
diately begin the construction of the |
of its line of railway from its |
present terminus at University to S IN |
Pedro, the surveys for which have al |
ready been made and the right of way
secured. 1t is also said that the South |
ern Pacific company has had plans |
prepared for a depot, warehouses, ETC.,
upon it's tract of 500 acres at San Pedro |
which would indicate that the Southern
Pacific has given up its fight fO- Santa
Monica.
"A new western record In last time
was made on the Missouri Pacific road |
recently when a new engine, just from
,he roads own shops at s.. Louis,
made siXty-eight miles an hour be-
tween Kansas City and Sedaiia. It
was the trial trip of the locomotive,
" hlch was built after the pattern of
,he Empire Express engine. No. 999,
If the New York Central road, which
broke the worlds long-distance record
of speed. 1t is the largest passenger
engine on the Missouri Pacific road.
1t weighs SO! tons, and has four 6S-iuch
lrive wheels. The cylinders are 1924
inches and the boiler is built to carry
200 pounds of steam pressure to the
square inch.
The Southern Pacific company,
which has been drilling we'll east of
Lordsburg, upon its right of way, has
)een successful in its search for water.
At a depth of about l30 feet it encoun-
.ered d liberal supply of water. The
pump was put to WORK on it, and it was
ound that the well could furnish 1000
yallons per hour. The drill had not
cached bed rock when this water was
the water being in gravel.
t is probab.e e that as the well is used
arger supply of water will be develop
ID, as is usual in ali wells in gravel,
samples of the waOer were sent to Sac
'amentO and there aoalyzed, and 1t is
pronounced the best steam water be-
ween Ell Paso and Los Angeles.