El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-04

II. w. Filbert, who has had charge
of the Southern Pacific sta tiOn at
Lordsburg for the past five years. has
been transferred to Yuma. His place
here is to be filed bv Geo. Bugbee,
who has had charge of the Bowie STA
ton for several years. Mr.. Bugbee is
well known in Lordsburg, as soma
years ago he held down the Western
Union desk at this station.-Liberal.
The Arizona-Paific railroad COM
pany has been incorporated, with an
alleged capital sock OF $4,000, 00O, in
Arizona. The incorpOrators are +. j
Beard, of Kansas City, president; j. N
Porter, vice preside INT; L. f.. Solomon,
treasurer; aud Frank Dysart, seer etary
The company proposes to construct
railroad from point upon the Santa
Fe, in New Mexico, to Phoenix ArizO-
na.
The extensive improvements made
by the Rock Island railroad company
in its terminals in Kansas City, Kan.
will soon be finished. TIE company is
spending about $50, 900 there. The new
freight house will be ready for use in
about a month, which will make tn"
total length of the house 6lO feet.
They recently built new round hou sc
aud about twenty eng mes will be KEEP
in it.
Nearly all the Santa Fee cattle bust
ness comes from New Mexico. or east
of Pueblo, and their yards at La Junta
most naturally get the business. just
now, the Missouri Pacific, the Santa
Fe and the Rock Island roads, the three
systems with terminal in Pueblo. have
agents in western Colorado and Utah,
who are urging the cattiemeu to bill
their stock through Pueblo and, with
IN another year, the yards in that city
will feel the good effects of those
efforts.
The Santa Fee management has de.
cided on an important move toward,
providing absolute safety in traveline
over its line. A system of inter-lock-
ing at all of the principal railroad
crossings alang the line of the rosd
proper will be iuaugurated, towers will
be built where the interviewing devices
are put in in, and tenders employed
both for night and day service. The
interlocking devices will be placed at
the principal crossings between Chica.
go and Newton at once. The system of
interviewing will effectuaily prevent
collisions at railroad crossings.
Plans have been perfected for a
railroad to the Grand Canyon of the
Colorado and construction is to begin
soon from point on the Santa Fe.
Pac tic at Flagstaff or Williams A
tenth of the million dollars caDita |
stock is already on hand, and the bonds
of the line are being placed in the east.
The enterprise is backed by Lombard,
GOOde Il Co., of Chicago, and is un-
der the management of Mayor O'Neiu,
of Prescott. The new line will be
known as the Santa Fe and Grand
Canyon railroad and will tap the can
yon at the head of Bright Angel trail.
AT that point is proposed the erection
of large hotel.
The Railway Age says: kansas
people have just had evidence of the
willingness OF railway companies to
remove real inequalities in rates when
convinced of their existence. The
traffic officials of the Santa Fe were
sum mOned before the Kansas railroad
the town of Lyons were too high 1t
was shown that the rate on certain ar
ticles from Chicago to Hutchinson, 500
miles, was 81 cents, while to Lyons. on
d branch road, six miles further from
Chicago, the rate was 90 cents The
head of the traffic department express
ed surprise at the discrepancy, and
without further argument it was
agreed to make the desired reductions,
and the hearing clUSed.' 1t strike.
the average reader that the expression
the head of the ira f1ic department ex-
pressed surprise" is rich.