El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-05

engines whose tonnage and capacit.
will be happy medium between th'
dwarfs and monsters.
Sixty miles of 81 pound steel rail-
will be laid this summer from near La
Lunas southwark. Last year similar
iron was laid from Albuquerque to the
point of commencement Das Vegas
Optic.
Workmen were busy yesterday
placing a pump in the E. P. & N. E.
we'll which has just been completed
south of the G. II. shops. There is an
abundance of water in this we'll and il
| Is only 40 feet deep.
The Texas Railway News and Illus
| traitor goes to it's readers this week
with magnificent full-Page photo en-
craving of General Manager N. S.
Meldrum of the Houston East and
West Texas railway.
The back shop of the G. 81. is filed
with engines and the 615 and other en-
gines are undergoing repairs in the
yard The 615 is switchenRine and
will receive general fixing up before
she is again sent out for duty.
The expenditures of the railroads of
the United States are 1915, 600, 900, as
against ST ,535, 900, 900 for the entire
world, or $3.50, 900, 900 for the balance of
the world. Our expenses for transport
ing freight are more than those OF the
rest of the world.
The T. P. folks say they are going
to have flag over the new coach
sheds and that it will be flying every
day. st would be more honorable to
have none at all than to have it stuck
away some place and not where it be-
longs, on the top OF the pole''. said a
T. P. employe yesterday.
Twenty-one Mexican tie-makers,
who have been at work on. the Sacra-
ern railway, passed through White
Oaks recently en- route to Santa Fe.
1t seems that these men were amateurs
in tie-making, and their places have
been filled by men who understand the
business.
1t has been decided now that every
of the ''Don't Worry" club
must ride burro to the meeting to-
morrow night. AS result the scram
BILE for burros has been quite lively.
The order is not only to ride burro
to the meeting but to ride him home as
we'll. A man must be mighty sober to
ride bare-backed burro.
Aldace F. Walker and the Atchison,
1oPOhd "a odh Va I0li"oy OOup0hN
last week filed two deeds with the pro-
bate clerk, conveying all the Santa Fe
lands in San Juan county to
Wilder. They were transfer
red by virtue OF q mortgage sale held
some time ago. Consideration was
placed in the deeds at 81. % per acre
Las Vegas Optic.
The Las Vegas Optic says: ]. L.
Moore and family are here from Mad
ison Iowa, a friend of Dan Daily, and
ran the first passenger train into Chi
cago, over the Santa Fe extension. He
and family and Chris Sellmau and
family, left to-day for dermit's Peak,
ard other points of interest. Mr..
Moore will also visit Santa Fe before
his return home.
Every railway pointing to the Paci-
&c is headed in the right direction.
The annexation of Hawaii by the great
republic implies much for our west
coast, and President Diaz's plan of
yetting that coast into railway connec-
lion with the rest of the republic is
making its wisdom evident daily As
Mr.. Seward predicted, the Pacific |
ocean is to be the theatre of the |
worlds most intense activities, and
ortunate is Mexico in having two ocean |
rontages, which make her q bridge
If international commerce. |
Herald.