Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-10-01
! RAILROAD ~RuMnLINos.


6wltchman Chas. b. Dawson has resign
ed bis position In the local yards.
Dispatcher Sam Levy returned last even
ing from an extended vacation to Denver
and surrounding country.
Dispatcher McMahon is back from Val
parAiso. Ind, to which city be accompan-
led the body Of the late Aired O'Connor.
Conductor Tom Corey has charge Of
Murray's passenger crew, In the absence
Of the latter and wife at the Topeka FESTIVE
tiles.
w. M. Lowen, a Wabash conductor whose
headquarters were at Kankakee, Il.,
did on the train between La Junta and
Timpas, Monday morning.
John r. Gavni, who served as night OPP
erstor at Springer, during the temporary
absence OF Mrs Bay In the east. has been
assigned to the Wagon Mound agency.
George Dornbiaz-r. who formerly rail-
roaded out OF Las Vegas with TEN Coffey,
arrived from Winfield, Kansas, last even
ing, accompanied by the wife OF bis bosom.
Al West, the freight conductor, was In
charge of Incoming No 81 passenger train,
last evening, the regular ticket puncher,
Charley Stevens, on being assigned to the
Ripley special.
An Atchison fireman at Ell Paso, Texas,
refused to fire on a work train, stating that
he did not propose doing thst class OF
work. He has been relieved from doing
work Of any kind for the railroad compa
ny, and will go to Klondyke.
The legal history of the Atchison system
is a remarkable one. Ninety five corpora.
tions which have, at one time or another,
played an important part 10 the history OF
the road, are dead AND inactive, by aban-
donment and absorption. There are 0
seventy-nine active companies. F,
Conductor J.. B.. Cunningham has re-
turned from a lengthy eastern trip, on
/ which he sought relief from an eye which
was damaged by the bursting of a water
glass. THE OPTIC is glad to learn that re-
lief was found in Denver, and that the
offending member is as good as new, with
never an ache nor a pain.
The New Mexico lines of the Atcbison
reach the mining, grazing and fruit-raising
regions, and the health and pleasure re.
sorts of New Mexico, by @ north and south
line through the Ration, Pecos, Rio Grande
and other valleys, from Colorado to FL
| Paso, where connection ia made with the
Mexican Central. through Old Mexico.
The net earnings OF the Atchison system
for the month of August were $685., 2S1, an
increase of $3.50 1926 over the same month
| of last year. For the two months of the
fiscal year, to August 31st, the net earnings
nave been 81, 1856, 03S, an increase Of $50, 1861
The total income from operation for the
two months shows an increase OF 1852, $40.
In the Atchison system, there are 9,298
miles OF track-nearly all single track-a
mileage more than equal to one-third the
| distance around the earth. The first twen-
ty.eight miles of this track was construct
ed IN 1869. The entire sy stem, therefore,
has come into existence within twenty
eight years. 1t really came into existence
in twenty-f our years.
The Texas g. Pacific railway has com
mepced the publication of a magazine call
cd the 1eCGS do PGcyJc quarterly. snort
letters from the people along the line will
be published. The main object of the mag
szine will be to place the advantages of
the liue before the travelling public, and
set before the public whatever max6be OF
advantage to the state, of Texas.
That the railroad business in the west is
improving steadily, ID evident, the reports
Of the earnings Of the various roads show
ing a marked increase over last year. G.
M. Hampson, commercial agent of the Wa
hash 10 Denver, has just prepared his re-
port Of the earnings of the western trunk
lines association for the third week in Sep
TENDER, which shows an increase of 40 per
cent. over the same week in 1896. Mr..
Hampson states hat the business OF all the
lines in the association Is improving rap
idly.