Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-10-08
RAILROAD RuMHLINes.

Joe Richley, the passenger conductor. Is
at home from Denver, accompanied by his
daughter, Miss Nettie.
@ M. Fisher, coal contractor for the
Atchison, stopped or In the city last even
Ing, from his Topeka headquarters.
The family OF Conductor 7. J. Murphy
left Ration, yesterday morning. on an
tended visit to relatives in Missouri.
Conductor Ed Ward returned to the
a%ggravations Of business, last evening from
a pleasure wooipg trip mid the coils OF the
silver serpent in Denver.
f. NJ. Carter, a locomotive engineer from
Sedalia, Mo-, has gone out to Winslow, Ar
~izona, where he will begin a run between
that point and Gallup or Williams, on the
Santa Fe-Pacidc. ~
The rumor that the Texas Pacific rail-
way is arranging TO compete with the
Atchison for California travel this winter,
Is not causing the Atchison officials IN To-
peka to lose sleep in any p~erceptible
amount. The Atchison people figure that
their route is 1853 miles shorter than the
proposed route OF the Texas Pacificlimited
trains, and the Atchison track 10 In better
condition. .4rs
J. B. Orman & Co., of Pueblo, have been
awarded the contract for the construction
OF the new electric line from Canon City
to Cripple Greek, and. it is said, will have
} completed the work by April 1st. Work
will be begun October Goth. The new roat
will cost about 81, 000, 900, will be built tt
Victor, and will be about twenty-five
miles in length. The power of the Arkan
, sas river will be used to generate the cleo
tricity.
1t is stated that sixty locomotives ant
crews from the Southern Paciflc's southern
route have been transferred to. The Contra
i Pacific aud will be scattered along tn
. road between Sacramento aud Ogden. TIL
. change is caused by the big business that !
being done and the closing Of the souther
route on account of quarantine at Ne
Orleans. The Utah freights are still comm
via Gaivsston. % vhauga will ha G
y great help to ogden, as ~ wnA grsAAy 10
20 crease train crews and shop forces on DOL
y the Union and Southern Pacific.
All OF the division superintendent {
= the Atchison railway proper ere now
. Topeka working on the new winter tim
card. which will go into effect on Octobe
aosh. On that date, the California Unite
!. trains running between Chicsgp ana Ae
I'M ingeles semi-weekly, will be re-estah
-. and this necessitates considerabl
a. changes viii ia main line card: But ie'
o' tne trains IN and Or OF TOPEKA. .Afte
~ January LIST, the California Limited train
9; Will run tri.weekly instead OF SEM week.,
The heaviest travel to California is aftt
IL the Christmas b lid avs.
Id THE MEXICO, oUERNAvAcA & ploIrrc.
Very few people know what the Mexic,
C~uernavaca & Pacific railway, oftMexic,
is, nor do they realize tie great import
ance that its construction means to OF
sister republic. Nor have they any COZ
ception OF the time, money and pers,
y verance that it required~tn build the roe
!. as far rs it has gone. and what enpr6y
'e Will require to complete 1t to itsaestina
ton, Acapulco, on the Pacific ctast. II IL
president and general me-Ager, CoIone
Joe H. Hampson, did mr. possess the vim
that characterizes every successful man
o the obstacles thatdave at times obstructe'
his path in ~epdeavoring to carry out hi
plans would haveyproyen disastrous, blu
he never Jagged, and the more the i'm
pedinents, the greater the exertiou
: When Colonel Hampsou's line is com
pleted, it will ba the finest constructed
{ road in Nnrth Amaricn and will ale,
prove to be the most popular.