El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-08

The present difficulty between the
Ell Paso and Northeastern and the G..
H. railroads is over strip of land up
on which the foundation of the new
roundhouse of the E. P. 81 N. E. is par
TALLY built. This strip was formerly
known as Ange street. The G. 81. people
claim the strip was vacated by the
city and donated to them seventeen
years ago, in the year 1881. When
the E. P. & N. E. made known their
intention of extending a railroad to
White Oaks the city donated the Ange
street strip of land to them, and the G.
n. officials interposed no objection.
Preparations were at once begun for
the erection of three-stall round
house and q turntable: still no objec-
tion was offered by the G. II. authori-
ties. After the. foundation for
the roundhouse was complet-
ed, however, the G. 81. COM
pany applied for an injunction be-
fore Judge Walthall. and the E. P. &
The date for the hearing was left to
the attorneys representing both com.
panies, and they have failed, as yet,
to set day for the argument. No in
junction has yet been granted and will
not be unless the G. q. show good
cause for the action, but the. E. p. q
N. E. felt that it would be proper to
stop the work of construction pending
u settlement, and have given orders to
the contractors accordingly. 1t is
stated on good authority the E. P. &
N. E. people started to build the round
house upon the assurance of the G. 81.
people that "a small matter like that
was insufficient to sever the ties of
friendship and business : relations
which existed between them
Steel rail production in 1897. says
the American Iron aud Steel assOcia
tion's report, amounted to 1,647 1892
gross tons for all kinds of rails, as
against 1.122,O1O tons in 1896. The
output for 1897 was made up of 1884,
399 tons of Bessemer steel rails, 3d.
12l tons of rerolled Bessemer steel
rails, 500 tons OF open-hearth steel rails
and 1872 tons of iron rails. OF the
total production. Penhs' lvania made
1927. 996 tons, or 62 per cent, and
illinois made over rs per cent. The
bama and California. AS to weight of
rails there were made SS, S96 gross tons
under 45 pounds per yard: 1,223 ,435
tons between 45 and So pounds, and
355, SOL tons over IS pounds. For
street and electric railway use 122, 244
tons of rails were rolled. AS compar-
ed with former outputs, we find the
maximum production OF rails OF all
kinds was 2, 139, $40 tons in 1887; the
next largest was l 1886, 3O7, in 1890: and
1897 was the next largest year.-Ex-
change.
The Mexican Central has made ex-
tepsive improvements within the past
three years, and in mentioning the fact
the Two Republics says: 1.-THE Cen
trail has within the last three years,
bought AZ large locomotives and 1900
thirty-ton freight cars, rebuilt all pas
senger equipment, replaced 400 tenn
porary bridges aud culverts with
structures of stone and iron, erected q
number of large steel bridges on ma
sorry foundations, spent three-qusrters
of q million dollars in improving the
water supply, renewed much track
with heavy rails, utilizing the lighter
rails for new branches, constructed
numerous buildings for employees, en-
larged shops and prepared to establish
extensive general shops at Aguasca-
lientes, built several branches, and
done large amount of ballasting and
general improvement of the line.'
E. A. Lain was putting the finishing
touches on the 654s tank with the
paint brush, when the reporter called
on him in the G. Fl. yards. "How's
tn war;" was the first question he
asked. When assured that Sampson
was destroying even the feelings of the
Spaniards he continued, 'Well, I'm a
member of Captain Wa+son's cavalry
company and we are drilling regularly
for the call which is sure to come
The great trouble with the boys who
are enlisting at present is that great
majority of them have no idea what
the word war means. They know
nothing of military tactics. and when
they get mixed up in hard practice
drill they want to come home. AS
said before, we have our regular prac
tice, and all who wish, may join US"
The Santa Fe now have two big en-
gines running between San Marcia
and Deming. These engines save