The herald., 1898-02-04
PULLS FORTY CARS UP GRADE
SANTA FE WILL TRY TO FLOOD
THE BURNING TUNNEL
Big Sale of Railway Lands in Arizona
Men Enough on the Southern
Pacifc-Track and Tie

much has been written of late, went OF
;, on her first trip on the Southern Pacif
: road yesterday. She was turned over
' Conductor George who was given trail
of forty cars to pull up the hill fror
Cotton to Beaumont. with a hog" help
er. When the conductor came to loo
at his train he went Immediately to tn
telegraph office and wired to the trai
, dispatcher in this city: Il am positiv
we cannot pull this train up the hill
Shall | set out some of the cars?" No at
tention was paid to the message, an
after thinking the matter over he cam
to the conclusion that the only thin!
for him to do was to make start, ant
if he failed it would be one on the trail
dspatchers for not authorizing him t
lessen his load.
Away went the baby" and away wen
the train up the hill and into Beaumon
on time all right. The load was within
twelve tons of the calculated capacity
of the baby" and formed most salts
factory test of the economy of having
her in service here. The largest trar
that two engines have been able to pul
up the hill heretofore has been one OF
twenty-five cars. so it is not surprising
to hear that the conductor had no con-
fidence that the "ba by" would be able tC
double the performance of former rec
ord breakers.
| THAT BURNING TUNNEL
General Manager Nevin and General
Passenger Agent Byrne of the Santa Fe
went yesterday to the tunnel near Will
lio, i,, A,i,A x,-hi ha ca1
that road so much loss lately, on ac-
count of its twice catching fire. The
company is now trying to flood the tun-
mel with water so as to cool it off enough
for the men to get inside to work, some
| thing that they cannot do as yet The
heat has been so intense that the stones
are in places redhot. All the water used
has to be hauled about eight miles in
water cars, and about twenty-five of
these are pumped into the seething
mass every day.
The great heat continues to disinte-
crate the limestone which largely forms
the mountain and this causes constant
caVing, which adds to the danger of the
work. Meanwhile the Southern Pacific
company hauls the Santa Fe freight be-
tween Cotton and Demng.
MEN ENOUGH
The newspapers have recently given
so much prominence to the shortage of
train men on the Southern Pacific that
Assistant Superintendent Prior has been
overrun with applicants for work. For
a few days he found this very agreeable,
for he was short of men and had had
hard work to keep his numerous extra
trains equipped. For two days past,
however, the supply has largely ex-
ceeded any possible wants of his and
they have been summarily turned down.
some time, and those who apply at
present are simply losing their time.
LARGE SALES OF RAILWAY LAND
The largest sale of real estate that has
ever taken place in Arizona is billed for
the 9Th of March next, at Prescott, in
that territory. The transaction involves
the lands in Apache. Mohave and Nava-
io counties, which were mortgaged to
the Union Trust company of New York
by the old Atlantic and Pacific Railway
Exactly how many thous-
ands of acres are included in the parcel
is hard to state, but the total is some
thing fabulous.
The matter, however promises to bring
forth some litigation which may estop
the transaction at the time mentioned
This possibility has already put a tenn
porary end to the work of building tn
great smelter at BarstoW, which the
firm of Ramish e. Marsh of this city had
to do. including q 2000-foot
side track. The projectors of the smelter
have ample confidence in the
but they do not wish to become
owners of property which may be tied
up in the courts with an uncertain out
come for months ahead. so they have
decided to simply wait until the difficult
lies are adjusted.
NOTES OF TRACK AND TIE
Chief Engineer Hood of the Southern |
Pacific company arrived in the city yes
-erday. He will arrange for some i'm
)ortant improvements to be made in the |
system hereabouts.
The Santa Monica electric railway has
is double track all complete, save for |
some rail laying which is delayed on
account OF shipments not arriving on
ime. The roadbad is graded and ready |
or the steel. This company is also con-
tructing a funeral car to be used for
,bsequies held at Rosedale cemetery,
N its line. The road is doing quite a
reight traffic, hauling decomposed
Tanite from the deposit near Sherman
o this city. This granite is found to be
we'll adapted to paving in
'esdence streets
A man named r. w. Rau was badly
lurt yesterday at Dryland, station on
he Southern Pacific line between Indio
nd Yuma. He attempted to board a
Witty moving freight train which was
,assing the station, but missed the
land-rail Of the cabOose and was struck
y the front part of the following car
nd knocked to the ground. The con-
uctOr picked him up and took him to
una, where he was turned over to the
urgeon of the company. His injuries
re said to be very serious, but not nee
ssarily fatal.
Harry Hillyer, who has for some years
een the chief clerk in the master me-
hanic's office of the Santa Fe in San
has been promoted to take
he same position in the office at Albu-
uerque, much more important place.
Ie will be succeeded in San Bernardino
Y Robert Cunningham, formerly of
ttawa, Kas. Mr.. Hillyer has been in
he service of the Santa Fe for eleven
ears.
Assistant General Passenger and
reight Agent A. D. Shepard Of the