The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-03-26

Ths census of 80 gave to Wa,lswor.h
a population OF 537 but a careful census
tlken asst year by reliable home parties
gives us a population of OPS, the figures
now used in railway publications and
opens our eyes to the fact that our town
is growing rapidly. There are a num-
Der OF causes for this rapid growth and
when we look at them carefully we can
readily see they are very substantial.
A RAILROAD TOWN.
Wadsworth is primarily a railroad
: town, being headquarters for the ma
chine repair shops OF the Southern Paci-
fic Company, said shops embracing a fine
plant and including machinery that will
permit OF building a locomotive from
the rails up or anything that moves over
the iron bands from a freight car to a
sleeping palace. Machine shops, car
shops, blacksmith shops, paint shops
and shops for tinsmiths and boilermak-
ers and plumbers and crafts that work
in all metals except those termed pre-
cious. Wadsworth is the home OF the
people employed in these shops.
TERMINAL FOR TWO DIVISIONS.
Further Wadsworth is a terminal for
the Sacramento Division Of the Central
Pacific and a terminal for the Salt Lake
Division of the same road. All en-
~vineers, firemen, conductors and brake
men on freight trains spend u majority
OF their time here, the rules OF the
Southern Pacific requiring that the
longest layover be had where repair
work is done on rolling stock. All en-
ployees on passenger trains also lay over
at this point. The fuel used for freight
and passenger engines is unloaded from
the cars here by contract aud the men
having these contracts reside here.
TRAIN D~IsPAroHERs' OFFICE.
The dispatching OF all trains from
Truckee to Carlin is done from Wads-
worth by the train dispttchers at this
point and they have operators working
with them and then we have a train
master, an agent and ear s%ealers.
WE II CAR.
The Southern Pacific pay car comes
along the road once every thirty days
and pays all these railroad men their
wages in good and lawful money of the
Ir....l c.. n.~ ,.l,. 80 900.
$50, 900, more or less as traffic has been
on the road.
RAILRoAD BUSINESS INCREASES.
As freight and passenger traffic has
increased on the Central Pacific the force
of employees has been corresponiingly
increased, and as Wadsworth is by long
odds the most desirable residence town
on the line OF the road, it is easy to see
that we owe our main growth and nearly
all OF our prosperity to the railroad bust
ness.
OUR BEST FRIEND.
The Southern Pacific Company is a
great factor IN our welfare. The officials
of the Company have been uniformly
kind and considerable of us as employees
and dependents upon it and its employ
ees. Witness the schools OF which to
support the Company pays 80 per cent
of regular taxes AMI have always been
as willing to pay special taxes necessary
to keep accommo iations apace with our
growth as we have been to pay them
ourselves; witness the granting OF favors
in constructing the building, freight
charges on material, transporting the
liberty pole and many other kininesses;
witness what they have done for us in
aid OF our plant for protection against
fire and what they do every time a dam
gerous fire starts and what they are do
Jug for maintenance witness the two loot
bridges that not only ornament the town
but undoubtedly lessen probable loss
OF HE aa hub, are a great convenience
in maDy ways and u blessing generally.