El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-01
DEL OTRO LADO.
Lively Times in the CorraIitos Yards and
Along the Grade

Along the Grade.
Vegetation over the river is consider
ably advanced over his sid, and in a
few days the trees will be in full DOM
1t is pay day today, for the Mexican
hands on the Oral tos read.
| The construction company and grad
ers have been having very tough times
to get through the sand hi l. out on
the dese't, tut it is reported that the
worst is now over.
| The bridge builders are we'll adj
, vance VII b their work. and the grid
ers are finishing up the great fill. Wi b
that exception the Inc is graded almost
: into Corrali LOS.
Rock ballast has been sent to the
front for bal asting the track through
| the Sd, d h lis.
The 65 feet turn table has arrived
and will be hauled over the river to-
day. 1t will tie imme di 4telv set up as
everything is in rea illness a5the pit.
| The blacksmiths and carpenters are
/ ii fishing up a complete equipment for
The track laying machine waich goes
to toe front tits week. The track is
now laid for As IN les out, and when the
mac in b. gins active wo~k tier, bv
the first of the W. elk. the manag ment
expects to walk right along at the IA e
of one and half to two MI les per day.
The yards of the company are full
of cars loaded with track laying ma
terial ready to be sent out on short
notice. Two engines keep buy in the
va ds, with the Mogul engine out at
the front at work there. Two new
e gines are due in Juarez on the 18th
ms. They are of the NJ pgu p ut ,ru
md ha P,lI
at Philadelphia
A new metal 20OO gallons tank has
been completed to be stat Toned seventy
five miles out f'r TEMPORARY wat~r
supply. Seven 900 gallon tanks will
be stationed along at the different
wells, and pillars and material have
been ordered for the same.
The yard shops are hive of indus
try, and large supplies of coal are in
Texas q Pacific cars waiting to be un-
loaded for the furnaces aud engines.
An ash pit and para lei drop track
have been built. The drop track lets a
fiat car down so that its floor is on
level with the bottom of he pit, and
the ashes are snoveled down into the
car instead of being lifted up wi h
shovels.
The foundations have been laid for
the black smith shop foundations. and
the fOuudat OnS for the machine shop
are going in. This shop is 70X15O and
will be fine affair.
The cOnstruc ion people will beg n
work on the Ell Paso southern line
within two weekJ, AID they say that
" hen the Ell Pdso city council sees that
they mean business and are strictly up
to snuff, further favor will not be diff
cult to get.
The new internatioua' bridge will be
Il tenn porary lre-tle until IL permanent
iron bridge can be arranged for.
The construction comp any have heen
their own private brick ward.
n nd h ave burned already l5U, 900 brick
fer Use in the NV building TO 90 up
This is cheaper tnan buying brick from
American makers.
There is an encouraging report that
the construction company will raise he
rate OF wages after May l.
Twenty cars of scrap iron were haul
ed over today from the Americ Al side |
in transit to Chihuahua Eor the Compa-
MA lndustr al. and ten more cars are
to come This is an usually big Lur-
chase OF scrap by the Chihuahua people |
and is indicative of flush time down in |
the republic.
Supt. Hartmann of the Central, is !
exp cted back from Kansas any day !
with bis family. ln the meantime. |
MIR. Chase Is acting super ntendeut.