Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-04-21
ALONG the STEEL RAILS.
Latest Items Of Railroad Iuterest Gath
cred from our Exchanges.
WHAT THE EMPLOYEES ARE DOING.

from the Santa Fe engines.
G. C. Eyerhart has accepted a position
In the freight department of the Santa
Fe at Las Vegas.
Chief Engineer II. A. Sumner, Of the
nj Paso & Northeastern. has located his
office in La Luz.
Harry Bartell has left hia desk as
night freight agent at Las Vegas and ac-
cepted a position IN the yards there as a
switchman.
Within twelve months brakemen on
the Northeastern will be calling out AL
amogOrdo; change cars for Fresnal, Pine
Springs, Upper Penasco and Weed"
Twenty men will cut across the bed
rock near the Santa Fe Pacific pump
house at Kingnan and make q reservoir
to catch the water that flows down the
canyon.
Roadmaster Elliott has a large force OF
men at work In the yards at Las Vegas
removing the old rails and relaying the
yards throughout with sO-pound Besse-
mer steel rails.
The railroad grade IL now about com
pleted to Dog Canyon. ten miles south Of
A%lamogordo. Track laying is completed
to this side OF the Jarilla mountains,
says the sacramento Chief.
DR.. II. K. Stroud, Of Phoenix, received
notice OF his appointment Is surgeon OF
the Maricopa Il Phoenix Il Salt River
Valley railroad TO succeed the late DR..
Helm, since whose death the Office has
been vacant.
A force OF surveyors, under command
OF James Grand. are measuring of the
ground for additional railroad track for
the Saginaw Southern line. operated by
the Saginaw Lumber company, out on
the Santa Ne Pacific.
-Four separate parties OF engineers are
now at work doing railroad work near
La Luz. One party Is surveying the
main line Of railroad, n surveying the
AlamogordO TOWNSHIP and two outfits are
at work In the Fresnal canon surveying
the Sacramento mountain branch.
The Santa Fs Pacific railroad company
has been improving its Flagstaff yards
and tracks near the depot during the last
few days, says the Gem. We hope to see
this company make some improvements
soon that will add to the beauty Of its
grounds and thereby benefit the town.
The Winslow Mail says: We under.
stand that the railroad company proposes
to remove the fence on the south side OF
the track, used IA a sand.brake, beyond
the cottages and to extend the full
length OF the town. This will afford
greater protection to the city from sand,
and at the same time remove an eyesore.
A. J. Tracy, formerly roadmaster OF
the Prescott q Arizona Central rail-
road, returned TO Prescott after an alb
sence OF four years and a half, says the
Journal-Miner. He says he has found no
place where he would rather live than In
Arizona and he will remain at Prescott
II he a succeed in getting suitable en-
ployment.
Two hundred carloads Of material have
been delivered within the past few days
at Geronimo, for the extension TO Globe
of the ella Valley, Globe n Northern
railway. Grading parties are scattered
along the entire seventy miles of the
route, and the management expresses
confidence that the line will be in opera
ton by September 1.
A new order Of things are being
brought about by the building OF the III
Paso n Northeastern railway through
the Sacramento section and an era OF
great prosperity noticed. New life and
renewed energy has been instilled into
the people, idleness has been supplanted
by enterprise and capital is knocking at
the door for investment.
Engineer II, A. Sumner, with a force
OF assistants, is now surveying the line
for the AlamOgOrdo Il sacramento Noun
tain railway. Grade stakes are being
set and the graders will be at La Luz In
a few days to start the dirt TO flying. The
road will be a branch or standard guage
and the contract has been let for con-
structing 1t as far as the MeNew ranch,
twenty miles east OF La Luz.
The ri PasO & Northwestern railway is
30 far advanced in Its construction as to
have issued a card notifying possible
patrons that passengers and freight will
be carried TO and from El PasO and the
end and making connection with stages
to AlamOrgordo and Tularosa. The road
when completed. will prove a gOdsend to
the people Of that region. and. in view OF
the evident appreciation of their efforts,
the officials are pushing the construction
as rapidly as plenty Of money will per.
init.
Tuesday morning. at 10 o'clock, a
freight wreck occurred on the Santa Fe
ten miles north Of Springer, Il was a
fast California fruit train and was run
ming at the rate OF twenty. five or thirty
miles an hour. Thirteen cars we're spilled
all over the prairie. Five cars OF oranges
and n OF lemons are q total wreck, but
the officials we're on the ground with sew.
eral wrecking crews and all the section
men fifty miles on each side saved what
fruit they could, Traffic was delayed
about seven hours.
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