El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-23
Railway RattIin9.

Railway Rafting.
Canadian Pacific railway earnings
for the week ending January 16 were
1925, 600; same time last year, S349, OUO:
decrease, S24, 600.
VIM. Priessner, formerly fireman on
the Atlantic & Pacific, has returned
from Las Vegas. and will go to Ell Paso
in a few days.-Albuquer Citizen.
There were 113 passengers on t! e
Santa Fe limited the other day as II
rolled into Albuquerque: and l06 OF the
passengers went on through to CaIlfor-
MIA.
The Southern Pacific is building a
steel bridge across the San Pedro at
Benson and does not expect to be
bothered any more by wasbouts at that
point.
Eastbound shipments from Chicago
| last week were 67,130 tons against
Il, 6O7 for the preceding week, and
77,011 for the corresponding week OF
| last year.
In Milwaukee an electric line is try
| ing to cross the tracks of the North
| western railway. Both sides ordered
out big gangs of men. A free fight took
place. anu WSTS
George T. Nicholson, general pas
sepger agent of the A. T. & S. f. sys-
tenn has been appointed general pas
senger agent of the st. Louis & San
Francisco road, vice D. Wishard, and
will assume his new position about Feb
ruary 10Th.
S. H Fine, for several years PAST
relief agent for the Atlantic & Pacific,
| hn hoC ~
| the period of his service with the road,
has gone to Boston to engage in
business for himself, and probably
squander his hard earned possessions
| Optic.
The board of managers of the South
western Traffic association is in session
at ST. Louis. The protest of the Kan
sas City grain shippers against the
| rule of the association prohibiting iu-
spection of grain in transit for Texas
points at Kansas City is before the
| board.
The directors of the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas Trust company have
authorized an expenditure of 1920, 900
| Y the company'in the deepening OF the
| channel from Sabine Pass to Port Ar
thur. The work of dredging this
channel will be commenced about
February l andis expected to be com
pleted in 90 to 120 days, these figures
Indicating the limit on either side.
Engine 44O, which has the reputation
among the railroad boys as being hoo
doc, is creating a panic among the boys
at the shops, as at the end of every
trip 440 goes in for repairs, and as to
those who are so unfortunate as to get
the job, it means "A to SO hours of con-
slant work. There is al epidemical
attack of cramp collie, among the en-
tire force, when the one-lunged 440 is
seen on the turn-table headed for the
| back shop.-La Junta Times.
The board of managers of the joint
traffic association is very DESTROYS OF
having it understood that the lucent
rate on grain made from Chicago to
| New York last week was not on corn
| alone, but included all sorts of grain.
The general belief among the western
roads was that it was for corn only.
| This the eastern lines say is not the
case. The lucent rate, however, ap-
| plies only on grain intended for export.
All grain for home consumption must
still pay the old rate of 20 cents.
One of the busiest and largest OF
| Galveston's industries is the immense
plant of the Santa F'e railroad. The
| buildings used as the machine shops.
| SDOp, WCOu ndCDlHS SlOp, DldCh'
smith and boiler shop, brass foundry.
tin shop and car repair shops are all
| large and substantial structures OF
modern design and equipped with the
| latest machinery. The plant occupies
| i large tract of ground in the western
portion of the city, ard ranks among
| the largest and finest railway shops in
the country. Nearly four hundred
mechanics are employed and the pay
| a
mum.
The Mexican treasury department
has republished the rules and regula-
| tiOns governing crossing the northern
frontier, and the same say:
Railway trains carrying freight or
composed of empty freight cars shall
cept from > in the morning to in the
evening from April 10th, to September
18th, and except from I in the morning
until in the evening from the 10Th OF
September to April 18th.
Trains running under schedule and
only carrying passengers with their
baggage, correspondence and such art
icles as express companies are accus-
| toned to carry on such trains, may
cross the frontier at any hour Of the
day or night, provided the schedule or
time table has been approved by the
department of communication and has
been made known to the custom house.
at least two days previously to that on
which such schedule or time table i
to come into force.
Passenger trains not running On a
fixed schedule may cross the frontier al
any hour; from the earliest hours men
toned in No. l for freight trains, until
10 o'clock at night. In such cases the
cOmDanv mDSt give due notice to the
custom house collector in order that he
may make proper arrang ements for the
quick handling of the train, the bag
gage of passengers and of correspon-
dence.
When ordinary passenger trains are