Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1897-01-02
RAILROAD LENS.

Accounting w NUe IhllIuau Nul'fl " -
Just lCn miles from HI Pa4o To lula.
rosa
Gro T. Foley, who has bceu In Santa
fe About AyeAf M chief clerk ot the santa
y" company ha- been transferred IL
Thatcher, Cello.
v Il. Coughlan who has had charge "
the santa Fr section north from Springer,
Tor IA" past two Years, has been trans.
trtrri H. Maxwell city
The II Joseph n Grand island railroad
Wa -uld under foreclosure nj liastings.
Nrh Tor ~ r,lJi. tu n representative "
thu nt-t mortgage hunih"lderu.
The new 5000 mile interchangeable
tickets which are to be- issued on January
. 1875, hN forty ur more eastern lines,
ARE attracting much favorable attention
from travelling men,
The allrAil east hound shipments IT
dead freight from thicago last week were
~. ~ tons, against $780, tons the pre-
,iuu- week aud a. .i771 tons the currespnnd
inR week oi the previous year.
e. e. Price, enginert on the Waldo
branch. had u -rt.to with Conductor Lang.
-tuu. the other day, the outcome IT which
L. not Vet definitely known, nj least ~ Tar
~ the tenure of pr.itlon Is concerned.
passenger brakeman or two has leen
suspended at Las Vegas tut wearing Aoiled
apparel which was gotten into that de-
ploahIr condition b, the performance II
iutlr- recently Imposed IN the nature II
uuruupllug engines, etc.
Railroad construction In tnr south for
ls.". ~ Compiled 10y the Manufacturers
Record. shows the building VI nearly 'sn
milr- ut standard gauge ROAD, All ~ the
-outhrtn states hut one have Increased In
mileage
burning the year Just closing the santa
i'r rumpau, ha- shipped from Springer
$50 cars 1T cattle amounting Ia $4,000
head IN ali. > l.,lN head NJ sheep. and t"o
ears 1T hogs This Is large gain over
ls,l. ami the biggest work In any one
wear Tor several YEARS,
The statement has hran repeatedly
mil, that ear wheels would wear
longer when run over east and west
my north aud south. Grnrral Manager
-ch,n. 1T the Zig Four. when asked II
the statement wa- true. sand II WAS not
that a ear wheel would wear ~ long run,
uIug over north aud south line ~ over
au east aud west line, unless there Ma
.uuIr other reason other than the dlrrc.
ton IN which the ROAD ran why II should
not
The annual statement 1T construction
L. be- published hl the Railway Age Thu
week viii show that during lN,Ii unl,
So miles of railway llnrs were built II
the ulird states This IL one mile lee
than the total reported for 1850, and l.
the SMALLEST mileage built Ia any yea
since $50. The number ~ lines on whicl
his track WA laid Is i63 which IA clever
lr-- than the number " uev lines adde's
tu In the previous year. Track wh- lal,
IN thirty eight Of the forty nine stats
and territories The longest mileage Wa
built IN California, ~ miles on eigh
lines
The Financial Chronicle says: "NheI
railroad business Ia depressed genera
prosperity II out Ot the question. Ihi
tate II things ami it, natural RESULT
are DISCLOSED IN the small earnings beinI
reported day 10y day, that again II re-
.lrcted IN the economies forced upon IN
roads In the reduction OF the labor en
y pIoyrd or of the wages paid, aud In al
expenditures being confined Ia necetsl
ties instead OF work being pro%'cute'
, with "A free hand NJ urual. II II prope
, To- add here that there IL good reason I
. anticipate this condition will begin I
- Improve after the hr4t ~ January, All
- beco,ne more manifest ~ spring opens,
The Berlin publication kuhlow's say'
The field Tor railway building which III
4 vast continent Of Africa offers seems dee
tined To witness great activity. With II
area II l,Jn,uD square miles, or near
four times that Of the United state
+ omitting Alaska, and With n populaiio
! ~ IT,, OOOO. the entire continent Ia
only 5000 mil y of railways, against u
5000 miles ~ the United States. But
4 change il apparent, ny the CONSTRUCTION
, Of the ganda railwa. a line 100 or 4
miles long, from Momhasa, on the India
> ocean. inland, Ia the north shore Of VI,
: toria NyanZa- there will be- opened Ia u
De worlds commerce n fertile countr
swafming with 5O.n l.uD people "