Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-02-04
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M. r. Williams came 10 on No. /, to day.
Engineer A. d. Tyler Is taking a much
needed rest.
II. M. Jones, assistant engineer, went up
to Watrous, this morning.
Cortez division, No. S7s, o. II. c., Will
give a grand ball at the Ration opera house,
February 22d.
Jack Pelter, fireman, has resigned. Fire.
man Murphy has been promoted to his
place, ON engine 800.
Hillside lodge, No. 205, b. Of l.. r., give
their third annual ball at the Rnton opera
house S.. Patrick's day, March 18th.
Fireman Pat Purcell lie recovering from
an injured hand. During his absence Har-
ry Bowman has been officiating on engine
4S7.
A new turnitable Is to be placed In the
Ration yards, part of the material having
arrived. 1t will be of the latest model and
sixty -four feet long.
w. e. Elliott, II. @. Chapman and e N.
Carlip, practical well borers, left Albu-
querque to commence we'll sinking at a
point near Peach Springs, for the Santa
Fs-Pacfc railway.
Special Officer Harris, Of the Santa Fe
railway, has returned to Albuquerque from
Socorro, where hs saw McDermott, accused
Of robbing the Magdalena depot, safely
behind the Jail bars of that town.
T. J. Helm, general agent; W. M. Lamp
ton, private secretery to the traffic man
agor, and A. Barney, live stock agent Of
the Denver & Rio Grands railroad, are In
the southern part of the Territory.
Mrs. H.. d. Hosmer, wife OF the former
general local yarimaster at Albuquerque,
has removed to that city from her mesa
home and expects soon to join her husband
at Winslow, where he is in the employ Of
the Santa Fe-Paciic.
Foreman Tom Gibson, Of the La Junta
shops, is at work on a gasoline motor, which
is to re attached to q railroad velocipede,
for the use of the roadmaster and other
officials. 1t will be adjusted so as to be ca
pable of attaining a speed of thirty miles
an hour.
~GINEE IN CONSULTATION.
James Don, chief engineer OF the Santa
Fe, has gone to Fairview tunnel, near Will
linms, Arizona, to meet with several other
expert engineers, and decide what can best
be done In order to open the mountain for
traffic.
The Santa Fe railway system is suffering
in more than one way, as a result of the
burning out of the tunnel. With the ex-
ception of the through trains, l and 2,
which transfer passengers and baggage
from either side of the tunnel, the compa-
ny has been compelled to run all its trains,
in and out of Los Angeles, over the South
ern Pacific read to Deming, at an enor-
nous expense.
In addition to this, shippers have prac.
tically ceased sending their through freight
to California, and from California to the
east, over the Santa Fe system lines, be-
cause of the roundabout way in which 1t
now has to travel.
In consequence, through shipments over
tho Santa Fe have fallen Off to an alarming
extent since the fire in the tunnel started,
and while the company is spending money
right and left, in the attempted repair Of
the tunnel and the rental of the Southern
Pacific tracks for its trains, its daily in
come is materially reducing.
This is a discouraglng state of affairs,
but it will rave to be borne with until the
tunnel has been blasted out, or some other
arrangements made to connect the two
ends of the Santa Fe.Pacific road.