El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-09
J. pdrks's son a

denly In his fathers private car FRI
dny st San Antonio. The child ~as
apparently veil and happy urtii FRI
day n o ming vie he become suddenly
i'll anu di ID that lay.
Promotion and a Parting.
A e Treaion, who has been valve
man 10 tbs G. II shops In this city Tor
the past 9 x months, , zen promot-
ed by the C mpany AID leaves tonight
for osnderson for ne Is TO be foreman
of tho G II round house. Mr. reno
can 9: ere from San Antonio Snere ne
WAS fireman ~ the g q round house.
His family will remain Ia FL Paso Tor
some time yet.
LARGE Sale of Mine Machinery.
The Ell Pa.o Nine, Mil and Supply
House mas sold the Clear Lake Mining
company a complete concentrating
plant for their mines 10 q Carlisle
al, trict neal Duncan, y. M.
a part of tue machinery has already
been o lipped and the remainder will
90 out 10 q fe~ dsys. TIE Clear Lake
company Is taxing out large quantities
of rich ore and the new plant will en-
eblr them to work the ore at q much
resrer profit.
Maintenance OF Railways.
Some idea of the magnitude Of the
work done by the railroads OF this
country In keeping up roadbed, may
be obtained from the statement shat
DUNG the past four years the santa
Fe Route ha, replaced nearly 2,5OO
bridges on its line, OF an Aggregate
Length of almost forty miles, by 9 "
mile of modern steel bridges, 2S.oI
miles of embaukmeut,2S7 arch culverrs
2.574 rows Of cast iron pipe and 2I5
rows of culvert pipe.
More Than a Million For Equip
ment.
Few realize how much money the rail-
roads of tnis country annually spend
for equipment. The aggregate sum
Is an enormous one. The santa Re
alone has Get aside more than q million
dollars TO spend for that purpose this
fall.
Two hundred thousand dollars repre-
sents she cost TO that road OF 300 new
ballast and coal cars, OF the so called
hopper" style. BY their use IL Is ex-
pecIed that gravel, crushed stone and
other ballast q De placed on the track
at a c 1eid cradle ssvfnR Ia time and
labor: the cars will also be used TO
unload coal into piss.
Fourteen new dining cars. two new
com 20 lite care, twenty passe 1Rer en-
eines. and five huudred refrigerator
cars are additional i'm: o saut items In
this list.
The refrigerator cars are mainly for
Ia rolling California fruit, the trafhc Ia
which is assuming large proportions:
TIE other equipment is for the Cslifor-
mia Limited.
While q million dollars is q big cum
of money, 10 pays to have the very beet
of everything In railroad equipment,
thereby creating new business and
retaining old frirds.
The discarded dining cars will be
Transformed into wide v~estiouled par
lor, buffet and hair cara, thus materil-
" improving those features OF the A.
T. & 5 F. service.
improvements on the Arizona and
New Mexico Road.
II. G. Simmons. general superintend-
ent of the Arizona and New Mexico
railroad. is registered at the Sheldon
with his wife n Mrs. and Miss
Christine. He is here on a social visit
and to attend to business connected
with the contract let last week for the
broadening of the gauge of his road
When seen by q Herald reporter this
morning he said that he had nothing
further to give out relative to the pro-
posed improvements of his road but
confirmed the story printed in The
Herald that the company would make
the line a standard and first class
road.
II have read the stories printed in
The Herald about our line" he said,
and have nothing more to give out
at this time. About coming to Ell
PaSo I must say that We have COM
pleted no plans to that effect yet but
there nay be some news along that
line in the near future"
Mr.. Simmons says he cannot state
wnr that hnro q. m a
tween the mineral lines of Arizona to
consolidate and make one big system
of roa but did not deny it.
While there has been no official
statement made by any one connected
with either of the roads that the con
solicitation will be effected soon. none
will deny it and the natural conclusion. |
based on facts in sight. is that this will
be one and ad efinite move mad as
soon os the election is over.
Passing II ARGUED.
WE WILL Carnival headquarters 10
particular and the surrounding portion
of the city In general was thrown into
Wild excitement yesterday afternoon
because the Hottest Coon in Dixie"
presented himself TO Secretary Lsy-
ton With letters OF recommendation
stating that he was . warm number.
It seems hat b colored porter st the
White Oaks local freight office, having
decided that the cold spell which
arrived yesterday had come to stay,
purchased a green and -ed cake walk