Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-05-11
THE STEEL RAILS.
Latest Items OF Railroad interest Gath
cred from our Exchanges.
WHAT TIE EMPLOYEES ARE DOING.

The regular and extra list OF lremen
number something over City, on this di.
vision.
ThOs. J. Peters. yardmaster at Las We.
gas, has been granted a fifteen day
lay-on.
The business on the Santa Fe now Il
much above the business done this time q
year ago.
Hundreds OF teams can find work at La
Luz In a few days hauling ties and tim.
bers for the branch road.
j. A. Eddy Is expected TO arrive at La
Luz from Nj Paso to push work on the
Sacramento Mountain railroad and the
Alamo Gordo towDsite.
The Sacramento branch OF the nj Paso
& Northeastern has filed a mortgage In
the county clerks Office at Lincoln for
100000, for the construction OF that
branch road.
Work on the Alamo GordO & Sacra-
mento Mountain railway will begin at
once and be pushed 10 an early compile
ton. Work for teams aud men Will be
plentiful at once.
Work on the new railway up 10 the
summit is being pushed rapidly, says the
sacramento Chief. One hundred teams
and a. many teamsters and wood chop
pers are wanted at once.
Six brakemen passed 4 successful ex-
animation at Ration for promotion as
conductors. The lucky ones are Fitz-
gerald. Woodward, Brown. Shocks, Con-
nelly and johnson.
Joseph Farrell. who worked In the
Ration shops some four years ago. but is
nov located in Mexico. arrived in Ration
aud will spend a month visiting with
his sisters, Mssdames j. kleins and @.
Groves.
The tie preserving works shut down
Tor 4 couple OF days, owing 10 needed re-
pairs OF Its machinery, says the Optic.
rne machinists have been at work down
there, putting things In shape, and the
picker will be running as usual TO-
morrow.
Good Il Co. will move camp up from
rerquoise 10 EseondidO Monday next. The
track Is now laid on the new road TO
E~scondido, twenty-one miles south OF
Alamo GOrdo. Work for laborers is plen-
titul on the line. Men are wanted to lay
track and work on the grade.
Edward Seanlon, superintendent Of
track.laying on the ri Paso and North
eastern railway, was In I'll PasO on Sun
day. He is enthusiastic over the road,
aud stated that rails had been laid for q
distance OF slxty-nve miles and work was
being pushed with all possible yigor.
The Santa Ne company is building an
additional four miles OF road bed FROM
san Jose to the Santa Rita mines, which
Is known as the Santa Rita railroad.
fhe latter road Is a bran CHI running out
fourteen miles from White Water sta
tion, on the Santa Fe main line to San
Jose. which Is some thirty miles north
east Of Silver City.
The III Paso Tribune says: Beauregard
Lee, a detective on the Santa Re railway,
with headquarters at Ration, New Mexico,
vas In the city to day and left this even.
Ing for the north. Mr.. Lee is we'll and
fayorably known here, is one Of the best
secret service officers in the employ Of
the Santa Ne company and is highly es-
teemed by the officials OF the Organiza-
ton.
All Concerned-Recently an operator
OF this division turned his board 10 white,
or clear. when holding incomplete "31"
order. A conductor Of a freight train
whose rights were restricted by these or
ders a~scertained from another train man
that there were orders for him at the Of
fee and called for them and made a re-
port OF it-mlshandling Of train order
signals. Attention has been called TO
the necessity OF great care In the hand
ling Of train Order signals. In this case
the operator has been dismissed from
the service and the conductor has been
given ten credit marks.-J. h. Hurley,
sunerintendant-