El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-13
NEW ENGINES FOR SANTA FEE.

AT the rate of two a day the twenty
-uev messenger engines, built by the
Rhode Island International Locomotive
works for the Santa Fe. are being ue
fivered to the company at chicago
They are being sent to- Fl Madison te
no sol nm and tested. These locomo
lives are ten-wheeIers and will be as
signed to service on the California Inn
ited. otherwise principally on the ives
fern mart of the Santa Fee system Some
of them are expected to be traVeiiht
over the west end of the road no"
any day.
AN ABSURD STORY
In one of the current magazines
there is a railroad story that must nave
been written by a farmer. The auth
or saws a trainmaSter discharged an
engineer because in two hours ne wore
the fanges of his engine But the
,urerintendcnt interceded for the en-
xineer with the trainmaster and got
MIN reinstated. The railroad men are
disguised with the idea of trainmas-
ter discharging an engineer and a SUI
perintendent interecding. for MIN: ana
saw the idea of the fianges being worn
off an engine in two hours run is
preposterous-
MORE PROFICIENCY. LESS INTEM-
PERANCE.
statistics show that the railroad men
are becoming more proficlent IN the
performance of their duties and not
only that but they are becoming rar
more temperate in their habits IL is
stated that twenty years ago that more
than twenty per cent OF the men dis-
charged from the service OF the Ne"
York Central were dismissed on &C
count of drunkenness. In the army OF
rrs.- mi COM
oany. less than one per cent OF those
siroDped from the pay rolls can trace
their discharge to the intemeprate use
of liquor.
READY TO BUILD.
The Roswell Record announces that
the Pecos Valley railroad company
has all plans complete to build into FL
Paso. In its issue of the Sth the Rec
ord says:
Much talk has been indnlged in for
the past few weeks in reference TO the
building of the road from here to FL
Paso. AS near as can be learned from
the officials here there is no change
whatever in the plans that the COM
pany has been working on all summer.
President Hagerman has had all the
money necessary to build the road
promised for esveral months. to be de-
Iivered after election. He left here
yesterday for Colorado Springs and af-
or spending a few days there will go on
10 New York and close up the financial
ARRANGEMENTS to build. The engineers
nave all OF their preliminary work
completed and option on all material
contracts, including rail. ties and
bridge timbers. have been let. so that
telegram may start the work at any
time The same may be said of the
grading contracts.
Engineer Caswell took a corps of
surveyors out Wednesday to locate the
line near Roswell The present survey
leaves this road near Lake Arthur.
permitting the use of about thirty
miles of old track. but this would
Iergthen the line to Ell Paso. which Is
10 be avoided if possible. Lines will
be run out from South Springs. Or
chard Park. Hagerman and at interven-
ing points. and wherever the best line
IL found. the junction will be formed
The work of construction will all be
lone from Roswell and the work will
not be pushed beyond the speed that
will insure good job.
Those in authority say that they
hope actual work will begin in from
thirty days to six weeks. and the con-
struction will consumed rom eight to
ten months. This will permit Roswell
by August OF September 1901.
INTERVIEWED
The party consisting of Santa Fe
Pacific officials and other prominent
citizens of Los Angeles. who had been
on n tour of Mexico and left for their
home over the s. p. yesterday morning
were interviewed at the depot by
Herald man regarding their trip
fayOrahly n
pressed with the republic of Mexico
and say IL is rapidly coming to the
front in agriculture manufacturing and |
mining. Mr.. Maginnis said that the |
advancement of Mexico was almost en- |
tirely due to the entering OF the repub- |
lie by Americans who are introducing |
Americans customs there and the ma |
tives are catching on rapidly. He says |
he saw i'm one field one hundred Amer
lean blows running. These have re-
placed the old way of breaking the soil |
with sticks In another place he saw |
a modern threshing machine at work. \
These are sequeais to the advent of 4
into Mexico.
Mr. MaginniS says the country. where /
agriculture can be produced. Is proving 1
to be a wonderful producer and not /
only are the products of good quantity |
and quality but there are many kinds
that more than one crop OF which may 4
be raised in one summer. He saw
corn field where the second crop this
was tasseling out and the first |
crop still stood in the shock amongst /
he growing second crop. He says that
between Guadalajara and frapua.o the /
junction of the GuadalaJara road and
the Mexican Central he saw some of
The very finest porkers ever raised any
place
The party visited the old mine at
which has been worked