El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-09

The rOi IS en- ri G Fort Worth have
decided to build a union depot VIII ch
has long been needed. One is needed
iu FL PasO also.
Yesterdays No. 10 went east over
the newly built low line track as a sort
of d feeler, and in d few days the re-
built track will be in shape for steady
use.
The August receipts of nine of the
great railroads cenGering in Chicago
were S2,2l6,O44 greater than the re-
ceipts of the same roads in August,
1896.
Tie Great Western railway of Eng
land las made present of 100 guineas
to 1.-THE greatest traveller In the world, -
one of its employees, who has Travelled
1000, 900 miles in forty years of SER
vice.
Southern Pacific engine No. 1929 has
been supplied with d Jenny coupler,
and now 1t can back down aud couple
on to passenger car without any
trouble. Engineer Crane says his en-
CINE is to b. put on the Sunset Limited
which will probably have seven cars
Instead of five this year.-LOrdsbur
Liberal.
In letter to a friend in New Mex
leo G. 3. Eddy says that j. j. Hager-
man is &c ting the affairs of the kos
well-AmarlllO extension of the Pecos
Valley line in good shape, and should
this road be built, it will not be long
before there will be connecting link
underway between Roswell and the
new FL Paso line.
Twenty newly-organized roads have
filed their articles OF incorporation re-
nantlU m rIZnEa As several inf those
are backed by either the Southern Pa
cific or the Santa Fe it is fair to as
sumo that Arizona will show. many
miles of railroad construction in the
next year. The total lengt tn of the pro-
posed roads is 2, 463 miles.
The yard crew in the Southern Pa
ciic yard at this point have received a
new engine, one of the kind built es-
pecially for doing yard work being
without acowcatcher and front trucks
and having low sloping tender, which
makes it SO much handler to do the ne
>essary switch ng that the boys stay up
nights to work just for the fun of it
Liberal.
Another new office in connection
with the operating department of the
Santa F'e is to be established in Topeka
A circular issued by General Superin-
UcuocuG uuSS duuOuuCSS GuG CSCd o.
lishment of the office of Engineer of
Signals" on the Santa Fee road proper
and the appointment of j. S. Hobson
at present with the Michigan Central
railway at Detroit, to ill that position.
The celebration of the twenty-sixth
anniversary of the building of the S an
I'd Fe railway, at Topeka, by pro-
cession, public speaking and other dis
plays, marks new departure. There
was coming together of employees,
D strOnS and officials upon common
plane of mutual interest that all con-
cerned are inclined to believe will
create a better understanding and close
relations.
Every indication points to a large
JasseDge- buSlle-J through the Ogden
gateway under the new Animation
,ver the Oregon Railway and Naviga-
ton company, Oregon Short Line. Rio
Grande and Western, Denver and Rio
GranGe and Colorado Midland, which
went into effect yesterday. The first
veStbOund Pullman car went through
for Portland recently with twenty-one
passengers.
Take the salvation army for heaven,
and the Texas 81 Pacific for other
points," is the new motto General Pas.
senger Agent Turner of the L. & p,
mas sprung on the travelling public.
Mr.. Turner has effected a general
overturning of things since he took
hold of the pass enger department, and
General Manager Tnorne is so pleased
with his new general passenger agent
that he has turned the department en-
tirely over to him to run according TO
his own sweet will. The Houston Pest
gives Mr.. Turner the credit of Undue
ing the Southern Pacific to run the
Sunset Limited over tie Texas u Paci-
&c to Chicago instead of only to Al
giers to connect with the Illinois Cen
trial.
The Bulletin says that the Pr cific
improvement company, which is the
company inside the Southern Pacific
company, has had men at work for two
years prospecting for coal in the GIa
valley; that recently a carload Of new
machinery was shipped to the prospec-
tors, who are using a diamond drill:
that the expense of the work done has
not been less than $4,000; that the
gentleman in charge of the work re-
fuses to say whether be has found any
valuable coal claims or not. Taking
these things into consideration, and
remembering that the Pacific I'm