El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-03

Supt Hurley, of the Santa F.,
has notified operatives that the
practice of shipping packages to en-
| plOyes along the line in baggage cars
must be stopped. Such packages are
to be handed over to the express com
pany.
A. Krauss and J. T. Stevenson, who
represent some English capitalists, are
making tour of inspection from Dem
ing, N. M, down to Guerrero,
on the old Mormon railroad,
| to their notes.
Fo: nearly twenty years there has
| been talk of road from Salt Lake City
west into the Clifton mining district
| lying both in Utah and Nevada, COM
monty known as the Deep Creek coun-
try. President Clark, of the Union
Pacific, made survey years ago and
was intending to build then, but was
suddenly called away in another Girec-
| ton, and as he was then civil engi-
neer on the Union Pacific staff, and did
not have the command of his own
actions as he has now, he was unable
to take the matter up again. The
Salt Lake Tribune has steadily urged,
in season and out of season, that this
road be built, and the attention of min
ing men has been called to the scheme
all over the west
And now, after years of talk, the
line is to be built, and General Mana
ger Clayton of the Salt Lake & Los
Angeles road which at present is only
fifteen miles long west of Salt Lake
City, has secured funds, and as soon as
the frost is out of the ground, will
begin grading into the deep Creek
country. The cost will be about S10,-
O00 per mile, and there are no grades
to speak of. Mr. Clayton is now in
Omaha closing traffic arrangements
with the Union Pacific, and by the time
snow flies again, the road ought to be
in operation.
This will bring to the Salt Lake
smelters an immense quantity of med
ium grade ores, mostly silver lead, that
have heretofore laid on the dumps I'M
utilized, as the cost Of transportation by
wagon prohibited removal to the smell
tiers. This new road ought to pull Salt
Lake out of the slough which it has
been trying to climb out of for some
years.
An increase of ST., Al, OS3 in net earn
ings for six months, as compared with
the corresponding period OF the pre-
vious year is what the Santa Fe re-
ported last Friday as a result of its
operations for the six months ending
December 81, 1896 This comes from
an increase of S777,OS5 in gross earn
ings and a decrease of 1868, 21l in opar-
atipg expenses.
The annual meeting of the Southern
Pacific company will be held in April
and it is rumOred in railway circles
that the event will be marked by sew
eral important changes in the gen.
eral officers. Rumor has it that there
will be a change in the complexion of
the board of the company and
that Huntington will be succeeded
by Thomas II. Hubbard 10 the import
ant Office of president. There are some
who profess to believe that the rumors
concerning change of management
are without foundation. In some
quarters, it is stated that President
Huntington's administration during
the past year has not met with the
entire approval of the stockholders
and that the Searls interests will join
the Stanford and Crocker interests in
affecting radical change of affairs
in the executive Offices of the company.
An Innovation in the shape of loco.
motive with S0-inch wheels, placed in
service by the Pennsylvania railroad
on its Pittsburg division, is attracting
attention all over the United States
from superintendents of motive power
and men interested in the operating
is known as class L locomotive, and
is now running regularly on fast trains
between PittSburg and Altoona. and
its driving wheels are y inches higher
than any wheel ever used west of the
Allegheny mountains. Some years
ago, when the Pennsylvania class K
engine, No. 10, made its appearance
on the New York division of the road,
with Pinch drive wheels, if created
widespread interest among railroad
men ali over the country, and was
known as 'Long-legged No. TO-" The
new class L. engine now in use weighs
about 1885, 900 pounds, and carries q
steam pressure of $50 pounds to the
square inch. With an S0-inch wheel
this engine will covered 10! feet at
each revolution, and is capable of max
ing 100 miles an hour when pushed to
the extreme limit of its speed. It is
understood that locomotives with 80
inch wheels will be made the standard
on the Pennsylvania lines west of
Pi ttsburg.
In the case of Truman H. Lawrence
VS. the Pullman Palace Car company, at
Port Gibson, Miss, a case of unsual
interest, the jury awarded Lawrence
SS1 900 damages, afterwards reduced by
appeal. Lawrence claims to have been
severely beaten by porter in the en-
ploy of the company, the incident
occurring in Illinois.
Fifty Japanese families, destined for
the colonization of some lands in the
state of Guanajuato, have just left
Japan for that point. The concession
aires for the colony are going to bring