The herald., 1898-03-29
Free Transit Of Minerals to the Omaha
Exposition-Another San Diego
Railway-Notes

snort narrow gauge line runs IToIH III
town of Manzanilla to Colima, the capita
of the state of that name. All of the coun
try between Colima and Guadalajara pos
sesses no means Of railway communication
but now 1t is proposed to fill-this gap and a
last the central portion Of the republic
will be united by rail with the Pacific coast
Ignacio Borda, whose family lives IL
Oakland, and who has friends in this city
has organized the company to do this worl
and will at once proceed with the construc
ton of the line. The road will be STANDARD
gauge and extend from Colima to Guadala
jara. The line is to be It's miles long ant
owing to the heavy work to be dor,
through the mountains it will cost at leas
$4,000 mile.
The state of Jalisco is one of the leas
known, but at the same time one of the
richest of the Mexican provinces; it has ar
immense production of coffee, sugar an6
cereals, and many rich mines are in ts
confines. Mule traffic has been the only
manner of transportation heretofore. bu1
now that improved machinery can be car
ried into the country it is expected that the
new road will make valuable market fol
mining supplies from this coast as we'll as
ali sorts of manufactured goods.
FREE TRANSIT FOR MINERALS
General Passenger Agent J. j. Byrne
who seems to be tireless in his efforts to
add to the work of building up everything
of value to this part of the state, author
ICES the statement that the Santa Fe road
will transport free of charge the exhibits
of minerals which may be sent from South
ern California to the mississippi ex-
position at Omaha. The Santa Fe's por-
ton of the work will Of course be limited
to the delivery of the exhibits In Denver,
but it is said to be certain that the con-
Meeting lines at that city will follow the
same liberal policy and carry the articles
through. Exhibitors can send their dis
plays to Secretary Virgins of the chamber
Of commerce in this city, who will see that
they are properly packed and cared for and
placed in their location in the exposition
building.
UNHAPPY CONDUCTORS
Santa Fe conductors now sympathize
with the City Of Griefers who have hostile
feelings for General Manager Nevin of the
Santa Fe Pacific, for he has just issued an
order which has caused much hard feeling
towards him from those conductors whose
runs take them to San Diego. Heretofore
the conductors have been allowed to leave
their trains on their arrival in San Diego,
and the run from that city to National
has been made with the cars in charge of
the fireman or brakeman. Many of the con-
ductors as a result of this system, bought
homes in San Diego, and now they are or
dered to make the run through to National
and remain there till morning, when they
bring their trains back. Any one familiar
with National can understand that the con-
ductors think they have good reason for
p1oesting, but the order is very arbitrary
and there is no other argument to be made
against it than to tell the company to get
another boy. something that the times do
not warrant.
EASY SAN DIEGO
The San Diegans, or, as they are better
known, the City of Griefers, are having
one of their transitory periods of joy in A
dispatch from a "noted railway contrac-
tor" at Flagstaff, who telegraphed to a
friend on the Silver Gate bay that work OF
the railway from Yuma to San Diego was
to commence at once, and said that he felt
so sure Of it that he had just made a liberal
wager on the truth of his statement 1t IS
dollars to doughnuts that Billy Carlson is
or has been at Flagstaff and told the old,
old story to some unsuspecting tenderfoot.
CATTLE MEN WRECK A TRAIN
The Santa Fe had bad train wreck at
San Antonio near Albuquerque on Satur-
day night, by which they lost about eight
carloads of cattle, which were killed. and
had an engine wrecked and two employees
so hurt as to render their recovery most
doubtful. The cattlemen in the region of
Artn hox-a b1a
the constructing of a water ditch being
built by the company, and have threatened
to make it cost the road lot The train
is believed to have been wrecked by some
of these men, and the detectives of the line
claim that they have evidence pointing 10
the guilty parties. The train was derailed
by lot of ties, which were piled on the
track and SO wedged in among the rails
that it was impossible for the wheels of the
engine to dislodge them. The cattle cars
were rolled down an embankment and
those of the poor beasts who were not
killed outright had to be shot.
NOTES AND PERSONALS
The Santa Fe overland from the east met
with what might have been a very serious
accident at Gallup on Friday, the engine
being derailed while running through the
yard at rate of twenty miles an hour.
The mail, express and baggage cars fol-
lowed the locomotive, but no one was hurt.
The train was delayed until noon. when a
shoe fly track was built, and 1t came on TO
this city.
Santa Fe engineers find that they cannot
get any lay-offs nowadays as the business
OF the line Is so rushing that every man Is
needed.
Robert c. Morgan, a Santa Fe emnIove
at Albuquerque, is wanted for leaving and
omitting to pay large board bill in that
place.
Charles Rager who, as assistant n tbe
superintendent of the railway mail service
has the duty Of weighing the mails on tha
railways once year, is now in the citv an
that business.
General Freight Agent Fred Wild NJ Tho
Union Pacific. Denver and Gulf railway ,e
in the city.
The travelling freight agents are all head
Ing for Arizona to put in their efforts IN
secure cattle shipments from that terri.
tory. 1t is estimated that the output from
there this year will be larger than ever be-
fore.
The Santa Fe Pacific in few months Will
lot have Wooden bridge left on the line: