El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-28

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The Burlington is now loading near
ly 300 cars of freight daily and is short
of cars.
Manager Naugle, of the Sonora road,
has been severely injured by being
thrown from a horse.
The delayed train from New Orleans
went west yesterday with ten cars
hauled by two engines.
The Santa Fe's November freight
business shows an increase of nearly
40 per cent over last year.
The Chicago & Northwestern Rail-
road company announces that it will,
during 1898, complete the double
tracking of its main line across Iowa.
Brakemen and epginemen are ex-
hausted from overwork on the Santa
Fe Pacific Some have been on the
road nearly sevepty-two hours, mere
ly catching nap now and them
Bee.
Russia will at once begin the work
of double tracking her entire railway
system. and is negotiating with the
shah of Persia for a road connecting
the Caspian sea with the Persian
gulf.
The Illinois Central railway placed
an order for 1000 b and coal cars.
Five hundred already have been de-
livered and the great demand has nee
essitsted their being placed in imme-
date use.
The Gazette says rumors are rife to
the effect that the Santa Fe. Prescott
and Phoenix railroad people will at
once begin al extension of their line
from Phoenix to Globe, with branch
south to Florence.
The Arizona & Southeastern railroad
company has work train and crew of
men at work distr buting seventy-five
pound steel rails between B;sbne and
laid with new steel.
1t is estimated that over 1.5OO men
are now engaged in improving on the
road bed of the Santa Fe Pacific, be-
tween Mojsve and Albuquerque. New
rails and ties are being laid, and hum
dreds of tons of gravel are being placed
along the track.
Formerly the ventilated and re-
l.
shops in Topeka were painted white.
A long line of these cars made a pretty
sight, but it has been found that white
Is not good color to stand smoke and
dust and hereafter the cars will be
painted yellow.
One of the first contracts to be taken
up by the Santa Fe mechanical depart
mept after the first of the year will be
one for the construction of 100 furniture
cars at the Santa Fe shops in Topeka.
The average cost of each of the cars
will be in the neighborhOod of $1,000,
or an expenditure of $1,000 for the
100 cars.
The Brooks Locomotive works has
just turned out one of the largest loco
motives in the world. 1t is twelve
wheel freight engine, made for the
Great Northern railroad. Its cylinders
are 81 inches in dia q eter and it's boil
err IS inches. Its heighth to the top of
the stack is Is feet inches. It weighs
$1,000 pounds.
The 400 employees of the operating
department of the Denver & Rio Gran
de railroad have been notified by
Superintendent Sample to prepare for
an examiu stion, which will be held
shortly, for the purpose of determin-
ing the efficiency of each employe and
his general knowledge of the rules and
regulations of the operating depart
ment.
Horace G.. Burt, third vice president
of the Chicago & Northwestern road
will be the next president OF the Union
Pacific. The board of directors will
include Winslow S. Pierce, chairman;
James Stillwell, Marvin Hughitt, Ros-
we'll Miller, E. b. Harrigan, Louis
Fitzgerald, Henry B. Hyde, John w.
Doane, Otto H. Kahn. T. Jefferson
Coolidge, Jr., George ]. Gould, Oliver
Amos, George e Cannon and Jacob
Fl. Schiff. Oliver W. Mink is to be
vice-president in charge of the New
York Office.
1t will, perhaps, interest some to
know how much fuel locomotive
burns. This. of course, depends upon
the quality of fuel, the work done, the |
speed ard the character of the road. |
On FREE eht trains the average consump- |
tion may be- taken at abou. one to one |
and a half pounds of coal per car per
mile. With passenger trains, the cars |
of which are heavier and the speed |
higher. the coal consumption is great |
err. A freight train of thirty cars q
speed of thirty miles per hour would. |
therefore, burn from 900 to $50 of
GOAL per hour.