El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-20
WILLIAMS, Arr.
A Very Mild Minter-The Platinum
Outlook-Shlpping Oranges
Railroad Bullding-BoxF Factory
Pushed To Night Work-SWltch-
nan Sermon Killed.

Hdu ScTuOn huISU.
speciai Correspondence of the HERALD.
WILLIAMS, Ari., Jan. 4.-Northern
Arizona ts experiencing one of the
mildest winters so far in the memory
of the oldest inhabitant. With the ex-
ception of one morning the thermom-
eter has not been below twenty above
zero, with SO far only one snow fall of
about eight inches. Owing to the
scarcity of rains last summer and fall,
the prospect for water during the
coming summer is quite discouraging,
but good deep snow any time now up
to the latter part of March will remedy
all this.
The principal stock holders in the
platinum district will leave New York
within q few days, and it is expected
that they will soon have machinery
here and start the reduction of the clay
which con tains this precious metal. 1t
ia claimed that this is the Only point
outside of Australia where platinum
| is found in this formation. In all other
places where 1t is found in this country
| it is with coarse gold.
Since the settlement as to who shall
handle the routing or the California
orange crop, ''the shippers of the rail-
roads, - business on the Santa Fe Pa
cific is getting quite heavy again, as
this forms their principal eastbound
freight at this-time of the year. Their
westbound business ia heavier than any
pre- vious year for the same month, and
the freight card ''time freight" seems
to be rapidly on the increase. The re-
duction in tonnage and the better con-
dition of engines, allows the company
| to give this class of freight good serv-
| ice
The Santa Fe and Grand Canyon all
road has 32> miles of track laid and all
s,,rfaood II ia in fina onn6i tfnn fnvs
a new road. Contractor r. r. Cole
| man is man who thoroughly under
stands this Kind of work and is rapidly
pushing to the mines, where construc-
ton work may stop if the weather gets
too severe: though early in the spring
| work will be pushed to the canyon,
Very little has been done within the
past week owing to a three-deck tres
tie not having been completed. This
was finished and rails laid over it on
the 18th, and as the grade from that
point to the canyon is very slight, an
air line will be built for about thirty
miles-something in railroad building
seldom I1 seen &c in northern r Arizona i n,.,
Maokie McGowan,. formerly Of
Ell Paso, is visiting her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John 81. Long, in
Winslow. Mr.. Long was q conductor
for the Southern Pacific for several
years, and Is now holding down q like
position for the Santa Fe Pacific.
j. W. Ross, late operator for the
Santa Fe Pacific at Fairview, Arizona,
is holding down second trick in the
ldispatcher's Office for the same COM
psny in Winslow. Mr.. Ross was q
dispatcher on the Mexican Central up
to . year and q half ago.
The J. M. Dennis Lumber company
at Rhodes is doing the largest business
in their history. Orders for box
shocks are coming in so fast that they
are compelled to run the box factory
nights to keep their customers sup
piled.
The Saginaw & Manistee Lumber
company will shut down their entire
plant February first for extensive re-
pairs. New machinery will be added
| to the box factory enabling them to
move boxes of all descriptions. Here
| tofore they have confined themselves
| to orange and lemon boxes alone.
VIM. E. Sermon, ofIndependence,M Mo. !,
while switching in the Santa Fee Paci-
| fc yards at Ash Fork on the evening
of January 10Th, in an attempt to cut
| the engine off from q string of six
| water ca and caboose in some manner
| lost his footing, falling on the rails.
The six cars aud forward trucks ran
over the body at the pelvis disembow
| cling him and causing instant death.
The remains will be brought to Will
liams for interment. Sermon has been
braking on the third district for the
past three years, aud was we'll liked by
every one and considered first class
man. He was not married and at pres
ent none of his relatives can be ,locat-
| ed.
RIO PUERCO, N, M.