Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-02-16
ALONG THE STEEL RAILS.
Latest Items OF Railroad Interest Gath
ered from our Exchanges.
WHAT THE EMPLOYEES ARE DOING.

Fireman Arnold. at Needles, is suffer
ing with a bad cold.
The Union Pacific reduced its shop
forces between Omaha and Ogden 10 per
cent. dismissing in all 275 men.
Engineer Robert Guthrie has returned
to Needles bringing with him Mrs. Guth-
RE and their sweet little baby, says the
Eye.
j.. P. Polk has returned from his Chi
cago trip. and is once more with the Cor
ralitos road at Juarez, his irst railroad
love.
Mrs. c. q. Chumpp and daughters have
arrived in the city, joining Mr.. Chumpp,
who is a new employee at the Santa re
Pacific shops.
Division Superintendent Dsnair IL
steadily improving. and can be seen
every day now taking his constitutional
walk In the bright sunshine at Needles.
The tie preserving plant at Bellemont
is now in active operation and ties are
being shipped 10 various points along
the line OF the Santa Fe Pacific railroad.
NJ. p. Gavin has been appointed road
master Of Flagstaff division ami Richard
Matthews has been appointed superin'
tendent Of bridges Of the Santa Fe Pa
ciGc
II il reported that the Choetaw & Rock
Island has come to an understanding
with references to their proposed extern
sions west Of III Reno, Ok, and that neil
Their will build this year.
A. p. Maginnis, Of Los Angeles, has
been appointed claim agent Of the Santa
Ne Pacific railroad, his appointment to
take effect March l. He will make Al
buquerque his headquarters.
Conductor Harry Reader and Brakeman
Muir, on the Santa Fe Pacific, are report.
ed TO have severed their connection with
the company in order to 60 TO Klcn.
dixie. They are two good boys wherever
they may go.
The rails Of the ri PasO & Northeast
ern railroad are laid about twenty miles
out OF III Paso, and the work Is progress
ing at the rate Of about a mile a day. II
IL expected 10 reach La Luz about the
middle OF April.
John A. Harlan, Of the Santa Fe, was at
Deming looking over the depot and Har-
yey house preparatory to giving those
buildings an O%yerhauling. making some
repairs and improvements and giving all
q new coat OF paint.
The Las Cruces depot Is undergoing
extensive repairs. The platforms are be-
ing relaid with new boarding, and a new
layer Of sand will be put on the walk in
front OF the depot. The stock pens will
be almost entirely remodeled and new
shifting gates will be added.
A telegram has been received from
Chief Engineer Smith Of the Corralitos
road from the City OF Mexico TO go ahead
with the El Paso Southern railroad
, bridge, as all trouble, II there ever really
WAS any Of moment, has been amicabl,
settled
, The Mu5kOgee was granted a charter
: under the laws Of Oklahoma for the con
: struction of a railway from Red Fork,
r.. TO Guthrie, Ok. The organization ha
. a capital OF sl,250,0OO. The incorpOra
' tors are: t. II. ConnOrs, Il. II. Brown, @
= Y. Homer, J. W. McNeal, W. II. Gray, NJ
: G. Guss and Il. II. Greer.
Orange shipments from Southern Cali
fornia are now under full Roadway. Dur
ing the season they range from forty Il
i, 100 carloads daily over the Southern Pa
! ci6c and at present that line Is carrying
: toward the east ninety carloads ever.
twenty four hours. Three hundred boxe
go 10 the car, containing each on al
average two hundred oranges. Thi
would make the present shipments o
that fruit Oyer that line 100000 daily
|, Negotiations were closed at Grea
Falls, Mont, whereby the Canadian gov
eminent contractors for the new KlOn
dixie line OF railroad from Telegraph
creek to the south end Of Lake Teslil
y purchased from the Great Falls n Canad
railway eighty miles OF narrow gaug
rails. four locomotives and a number O
cars 10 be u-ed In the construction an
operation OF the new road. The work Q
! construction will begin within ten day
. and the entire line will be- completed b
June |, at which time the Stickeen an
y Teslin rivers will be open to naVigatio
u and afford the shortest route for reaehin
IN the Alaska gold fields.