El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-20
Uncle Sam IS purse strings and the
work be started.

Uncle Sans purse strings and tn
| work be started.
The Santa Fe railway freight depart
ment is experiencing the greatest rusl
of business in the history of the road
The movement of fruit from California
and grain from Kansas has never beer
so great, and every available car fit fol
shipping is being pressed into service
Last week and few weeks previous
the company was doing rushing bust
ness in potatoes and live stock, but the
big end of the potato rush is over now
while the stock business is again nor
NAL.
The D. Il r. G. Railroad company
| has started in to build their OWL
engines, and the result so far is sc
satisfactory lat the company will in
all likelihood build its own motive
power hereafter. Two freight loco
motives have just been turned out OF
the Denver shops. Each apart from its
tender weighs in running order, 15O,-
600 lbs. be tenders loaded weigh
each 1O8, $40 lbs. Each engine has four
pairs of drivers and cylinders 2Ox26
| inches.
The Southern Pacific Co. are now
having about 100 teams, and large
l
near Dragon Summit and railroad
pass, under the direction of the re-
construction department of the COM
pany, which is in the immediate charge
| of General William Hood, w-o has for
many years been chief engineer of this
vat corporation. There will be four
miles of track in the vicinity of ORA
goon Summit and eight miles near
railroad pass, to be changed, placed
81 4 hi~h nd
beside strengthening the roadbed in
other places.
An officer of the Santa Fe road In
Texas tells a reporter that the reduc-
ton in cotton freight rates, which has
been ordered by the state railroad COM
missioners, will, on the basis of the
quantity transported last year, reduce
the receipts on his road 500. 900. The
movement over the road last year, from
Texas points, was 24O, 900 bales, and he
estimates the average reduction n rates
at 13 Ier cent. The merchants Of Gal
weston are dissatified because the COM
miSsiOners did not make the reduction
larger and because no change was made
in the differential as between Calves
ton and Houston.
The Texas Railroad commission has
undertaken to do something no other
railroad com mission, state or national,
has attempted, namely. to fix the rates
of freight for the railroads. Hereto
fore the commissions have found it
their duty to adjust rates, so as to pre-
mission has lowered the rates bodily.
entailing loss upon the railroads es-
timated at a million dollars. The new
tariff is ordered to go into effect on the
10th, but SO far none of the railroads
has promulgated it. The legality of
the procedure will be tested in the
courts.-Mobile Register.
When the Minas Prietas train pulled
into La Colorado the other day it was
with mad engineer in the locomotive
cab. The terrified fireman had m anag-
ed to secure scontrol of the throttle,
and had fought away the engineer
when he would have speeded the train
to destruction. Fooled in this he be-
gan to climb frantically about the
engine and tender, finishing up with
a quick succession of sOmersaults on
the floor of the engine cab. When La
Colorado was reached Engineer Ever EFT
was raving and considerable force had
to be used to remove him from the cab.
He died shortly after. The attend
ant physician stated that death and
insanity were due to heart disease
superinduced by excessive heat.
The Railway Age" says: 1--WE
have some great records of individual
continuous run on this side of the water.
The New York Central's Empire State
express has run without stop from
New York to Albany, 142 miles, in 1861
minutes, from Albany to Syracuse
l4S miles, in 14O minutes 35
seconds and from Syracuse to |
East Buffalo, 1464 miles in 135 minutes |
% seconds. The Lake Shore special |
covered 510.1 miles at the rate of 63.6 |
miles an hour, deducting stops. and |
reached the prodigious speed of 92.3 |
miles sn hour. A Pennsylvania train |
covered 5St miles between Camden and |
City an average rate of 76t |
miles an hour. Every day the Empire
State express flies 143 miles without
stop, at a speed of $50 miles which
fairly rivals the best run on the above
list, and every day the Pennsylvania
runs 1872 miles, without stop,
over mOuntainousAc but no
train anywhere except in England runs
daily 1914 miles without pause. That
Is not saying that no American trains
could run as far and as fast if it was
thought expedient. Experience has
proved that more than one OF our roads
could do what the Great Western is
LONG if the conditions of traffic were
such as to justify it.
You can see it, perhaps, one of DR..
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