Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-08-05
ALONG THE STEEL RAILS.
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WHAT TIE KMPLoYEs ARR DOING,

New water tanks are being erected at
Selden and Hatch BY the railroad com
pany.
G. c. Eyerhsrt left Las Vegas for Trni-
dad. where he will enter the employ OF
the Santa re company.
Engine 9O1, Of the Waldo coal run,
having had some changes made, is ready
foi service, engine 9O2 temporarily taking
her place.
Engineer A. B. Moore, who was recently
hurt while sanding his engine at Lamy,
il reported as doing well at the Las Vegas
hospital.
Engineer George Wheat has been tenn
p~orarily on the switch engine in the Los
Vegas yards, the past two days has added
his name to the sick list.
sixty miles OF 6l.pOund steel rails will
be laid this summer from near Los Lunss
southwark. Last year similar iron was
laid from this city 10 Los Lunss
The big BALDWIN engines on the Rio
Grande division are 10 be replaced by en-
gines whose tonnage and capacity will
be a happy medium between the dwarfs
and monsters.
Engineer Dan scully, who has been
running out Of Prescott, has arrived at
Los Vegas on a visit TO his mother. After
visiting a few days at that city, he will
90 TO Omaha, Neb.
Machinist Apprentice Andrew Jolly
met with a painful accident at Ration.
While getting of train No. % he acct
dentally stepped on a loose rail lying by
the side Of the track. causing 1t TO turn
over on his foot. -Four toes were mashed,
one 40 badly that IL had TO be amputated.
The report OF the Chicago & North.
western road for the fiscal year ending
May 3lst last, shows q gain over the pre-
cedlng year OF O., 0OO,0 900 In gross earn.
ings and three and a third millions In
net earnings. The road was able 10 pay
1850. 900 in dividends and carry nearly
f2,6OO,OO0 10 the surplus account.
The reports received from 2O2 roads,
with a mileage Of $4,000 miles, show
that their gross receipts for the first slH
months Of 1898 exceed by s~57,5OO,0OC
their receipts for the same months Ia
1897. II Is believed that when all the
roads are heard from the gain In gross
receipts will be about s65, 10000.
In the wreck Of the Southern Pacific
pay car near Benson on Sunday the Ore.
man, A. J. Taylor, was killed. The I'M.
fortunate fireman was pinioned under
the wreck and burned 10 q crisp. Bngi.
neer Walker was scalded and Conductor
Crowder suffered internal injuries. Tn,
money box Of the pay car. containing
10000. was recovered before the cal
burned up.
The Santa Re has adopted q new ant
larger journal on freight cars, and th'
old size wheels are being used for repair
work, while all new work il being ittet
with journals 4Hx7. On the heavy pas
, senger cars new journals we're adopted a
a precautionary measure. Those woult
be expected to be heavy enough, bu
heavier ones would be much stronge
, and they were adopted.
The railroads cannot fare badly with
out the country feeling II. so mucl
capital Ia invested In them In the expec
, tAtion Of q profit, so many men are EN-
ployed by them-nearly a million now
and they are such extensive consumer
, In certain kinds Of products that whel
the earnings OF the road fall of mater
tally the community suffers. Investor
are losers. Employees are dismissed O
their wages cut down. There Is less d.
mAnds for the products OF the stet
; mills. When prosperity returns to tn
4 roads eapitaland labor feel the difference