El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-06
Sparks From the Enuine

Chief Clerk Colliander, of the G. H.
shops, has resigned his position and
the place is being filled temporarily
by Bob Lyons.
Engine 71S of the G. b. which went
into the ditch near the G. b. round
house Tuesday night, was placed in the
back shop yesterday morning.
Hugh Golf is now calling for the G..
II. nights filling the position made
vacant by the promotion of Frank Tags
to day caller for the same road.
Jerry Linehan, the G. II, section
boss at Malone, left yesterday to visit
his old home in Ireland which he has
not seen for the past fifteen years.
The Texas & Pacific railway turned
out of their coach shops at Marshall,
Texas, the Texas and Pacific railway
postoffice car No. 3l6. The car is full
vestibuled, lighted by Pintsch gas and
modern throughout, presenting an at
tractive appearance.
The sos which has been in the
back shop at the @. II. for sometime
past receiving general overhauling
was turned'out yesterday looking fine.
A gang of about forty convicts will
| be in town within few days to work
in the Midland yards. A great deal of
new steel will be laid and the yards
put in first class shape with sand and
| ballast. The tracks to the oil mill and
compress will also be put in first class
shape and when the entire work is
com pleted the Midland will have the
best equipped yards in the city
Paris Advocate.
Pat O'Donnell. the G.. II. section
boss at Sierra Blanca, went to the hos
pital at San Antonio yesterday badly
used up Individual. Pat was sitting
on the front OF his hand car when it
was going at lively rate down an in
cline. When his feet struck the ties
and he was thrown under the car. At
ter the smoke cleared away Mr..
ed and the right side of his face pain
fully bruised.
The woods are full of railroad men
resume work. Talk is that about
eight miles of grade will be abandoned
commencing at Bartlesville and extend
ing south, thereby avoiding the range
OF hills three miles south of here, the
new survey leaving them to the right.
With the Santo Fe people hold of the
project there will be no dilly-dallying,
and railroad will be the outcome
Bartlesville Magnet.
The Wabash company will improve
its equipment by the addition of 40 new
locomotives for freight and passenger
traffic. Contractors for 20 of them,
which will be used mostly tfor passen-
ger trains, have been let to tine Inter-
national Power Company of Providen-
ce. r. L.. formerly the Rhode Island
Car Works. Some of these are expected
to be in service by May .SThe remaining
20 will be constructed by the Baldwin
and Richmond, Va. companies. An
outlay o; S450,O0O will be required to
pay for the entire lot of new engines
st Louis Republic.
Chief Engineer w. A. Drake of the
S. F. p. & p. railroad, sent an engiu-
GERS corps out this morning to cross
road around Rock Butte. The length
of the cut off line will be about twenty
four miles, and it will shorten the dis
lance between Prescott and Ash Fork
about two miles. The heavy grade
over Rock Butte and the high TRUSTEES
will be avoided. The maximum grade
on the cut off will be only one and one
half per cent as against three per
cent in many places in the present line.
Practically speaking this means that
the same engine that now can haul on
ly from six to Ell ht loaded cars over the
present line will be able to haul from
fourteen to eighteen over the new
route. There will be one very large
steel bridge on the new line, otherwise
the work will be comparatively light.
months to complete it.-Journsl Min
err.
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