El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-22
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ton and said it would be pushed to
completion as fast possible. He
would have nothing to say about the
probabilities OF larger shops and more
employees here after the change as he
is not now connected with the road He
thinks however that there will be a
great many more and that FL Paso VIII
be benefited in more than on way
PUMP HOUSE AND GATES.
II. Small. superintendent of bridges
and building for the G.. H.. is here from
San Antonio and will remain quite
while superinteding the erection OF
the pump house at the mesa wells OF
the railroad company and the putting
in of the gates which the S. p. and G..
II. companies have been ordered by the
city council TO erect at the street cross
ings.
NJ. T. Edmunds of the bridges and
building department. is here from San
Antonio also and will manage the
work on the pump house and gates.
They will go out to the wells today
and clear up the ground and make all
preparations ready to commence the
erection of the building Monday. The
pumping power will be four gasoline
engines which are already here. The
pumping capacity will be 100000 gal
Ions per day. The pipes are already
laid to the tank in the yards and when
the house is complete and the pumps
and engines installed the good water
will commence to run down in town.
The gate material is here with the
exception of a few parts and the
work of putting up the gates will COM
mence as soon as the workmen get
through with the pump house.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
A man who went to Ventura. Cal.
over the Santa Fe and S. p. says that
the Santa Fe is the most accommo-
dating road he ever travelled on. When
the train arrived at lie Grande station
he was taken in hand by stalwart at
who carried him to a cab and
remained by his side until he was safe
on board a Southern Pacific train. He
protested against such kindness but
them for their attention and
went his way rejoicing. The cause of
such effectiveness to the man on the
part of the attendants was a telegram
to the local officials telling them that
there would be a sick man on board
that train and for them to help him to
change at lie Grande. After this man,
who was the only one in the car the
sick man was said to be in. was as
sisted and the train was gone. tele-
gram came announcing that the inval-
id had changed his mind and stopped
OFF at Las Vegas. The man who was
mistaken for the invalid was hale and
hearty and could have made the change
but after protesting some he
decided to allow them to assist him if
they were SO awfully anxious to do so.
OUTLOOK FOR THE STILwELL |
ROAD.
There is no probability OF the Still
well road being made a success" said |
a prominent railroad Official this morn |
ling. land il will be well for Ell Paso IL |
the scheme falls through. He is a |
long winded fellow who often succeeds. |
but this time he has a hard propo-
sition.''
The idea is prevailing because of the
'act that no railorad man would sue
iced in building a road throug a des-
,rt for nearly a thousand miles and no
place on the line find connections that
would give the road business.
"Stilwell may be working quietly to
.apture a fev of the small roads in
his section. he continued. land get
o Topolobampo by coming through Ell
'aso and own the Sierra Madres to
he coast. 1t may be that he is after
he Pecos Valley and Sierra Merdre
outes which would make his scheme
legitimate one If he could get them
lie would havethe best line in the west.
THE fight that is on between Stilwell
nd other directors of the trust COM
ANY that was to back Stilwell's
cheme has resulted in a lull in his
,rogress and nothing has been said of
erved. Since that time the Pecos VAL
ha N ht1i1 TN |
IS that road can never be more than a
hort line Stilwell and his crowd may
,e after it One thing is certain: IL
stilwell builds his road over the pro-
,osed line it will be a failure. Ell Paso
$ already a railroad center and any
Dad that comes within 200 miles of
his city will have to come here for
elf protection"
The Stilwell road was considered
air proposition when IL was first
itarted but since the railroad men have
denounced his proposition he has had
title more to say about IL and IL is
all around that he has
either abandoned IL entirely or
hanged his original plans completely.
SPARKS FROM THE ENGINE.
Andy SCHNEIDER. air brake specialist
II the G. II. shops Is sick.
George Black resigned his position
rs blacksmith in the G.. RI. shops today
At noon.
b. +. Gregory OF Waco. has accepted
1 position in the blacksmith depart
nent of the G. II. shops and commence
I'd work today at noon.
w o. Morton. a G. III. machinist.
has been absent from his place in the
shops since yesterday morning on ac-
.ount of being indisposed.