El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-14
LINK AND PIN.
Engines Transferred.


Engines Transferred.
Eve passenger engines, known a:
this division 90 the Houston division
on sccount OF being too light Tor snls
end of the road The zoos whioh are
heav. er have been brought to this olVl'
sion.
Pipe laying.
TIE laying of the pipes to orln
the water from the mesa well 70 the
G. 81. yards has been commenced ou'
a, the other end aud about m1le mas
been laid. The sons Of Major Logan
whc toox the contract, are doing the
work.
Es.ioned His Position.
= ank Wisbrow. who has beeu day
Messenger air inspector for the u. d.
for -everal years, resigned his position
and left Monday for Bskersneld, Cal,
where he expects to speculate In oil
properties. VIII Tyra has taken his
place with the G. d.
More Track Perhaps.
Ed Kurmeier Gays that the Z. T. IL
N E. surveying rps got on the train
,hst ne got on at Jarilla yesterday
evening aud he Doesn't have any idea
WIS. thew are going to do but knows
that the prospect, In the mining bust
ness IN that district are enough 20 en-
courage the building of moro track
through the JsriliAs.
His Leg Broken.
Jose Rendou, a Mexican lAborer at
the G II shops, I'd the misfortune to
.i-hS hrnkan his After.
noon 1t three O'Clock. He was uoloao'
Ing a barrel of oil near the round house
v non 1t dropped on his leg. DR. Tur-
uer dressed the wound At 81 Lukes
hospital.
pich Ore Near Casas 6randes
General Manager Ramsey. of she
Sierra Msdre line, says reports are
coming from the San Joaquin District,
near Casas Crande.. OF some OF .ne
most wonderfully rich STROKES OF silver
ore that were ever known. Assays
shog that come of the ore taken from
that district contains $13, 900 worth OF
silver to the ton. Yet mon will leave
this country and go to ALASKA to endure
the ha-dships there and come oack
poor when such riches as these may
be had near home.
soeclaI Rates For Hunters.
Two bows went out in the mountains
near Colonia Garcia, Mex. the otner
day and captured two bear cubs. They
saw they will take them to the fair -
Coloois JuareZ, which Will te b aid In
the latter part of September. The
Sierra Madre road will make special
rate 10 give the people Of Ell Paso An
nifty to 60 down TO the fair and
SEQ things that they have never yee
seen. Colonia JuareZ IL wonderland,
a perfect garden spot and the pretttess
sowo in all the sOuthwestern Dart OF
the continent, and has as fno climate
rs anyone could want, so MIR. Logan, OF
the Sierra Madre line, says.
The B. & O In Mexico.
d. Bankhsrdt, general agent for the
Baltimore Il Ohio Southwestern rail-
road for the republic OF Mexico, with
headau srters in the City OF Mexico,
came in this morning on the Mexican
Central train that should have arrived
Last night but WAS delayed by wash
out. Mr.. Bankhardt says his company |
Is securing considerAble business In
both passenger and freight trsf1ic from
Mexico. One his latest Victories over |
agents in Mexico for competing roads
was the taking OF the Governor i
Of Belize, British nf a9noura -
N Se YORK in the B. & o.'s private car
last week. The governor
Is on his way TO his home in England.
The private car went over the South
arm Pacific via Eagle Pass. At st.
Louis it was taken on the B. d Q. read
md went over 1t to New York.
MIR. Bankhardt says torrents OF rain
IRE falling in Mexico, which 10 good
hing for the country but bad on the
'silrosds - is washing out the road
'eds in many places.
The Great Railway Systems-pre-
sent Rank by Mileage. e
The ben ehcent work of conoen trst-
NJ many small and often Improbable
nd inefficient rail ways into few large
nd well managed systems has been
DING on with surprising rapidly In
be last few years, says the RAILWAY
Ige. Hundreds OF roads that started
"a. on an inueUendent career have ,
one through bankruptcy and fortu-
stely passed into she control OF COM
a-'es able to operate them succesa-
lily. Hundreds more have become ,
arts OF important systems by lease or !
y voluntary sale OF controlling ,
nd others still have been :
uilt under separate charters and in
Ne time amslgamated with the
srent company. So by purchase;
.ase, majority control and actual G
,nsolid alton the evolution of systems ;
"a gone on, to the advantage gene
lily of the individual properties and
ways TO the benefit of the public BY
on-ovementi 10 transDortAtiOn f8cili- n