El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-02
. a WESTERNER.


many roads here in Ell Paso was con-
yersing with a Herald man this morn
ing when n young woman stepped up
tn purchase ticket. The agent IN
making change threw out dime that
was slick enough TO slide ana the piir-
chaser Immediately handed il back TO
him with the remark that il was too
smooth for her.
When she had gone the agent said:
whenever I want to find out whether
mr. no a person has resided long in the
western country. / just push out one
of the many slick coins so often found
in this part of the country so far from
the mints. The acceptance of the coin
means that they have been here long
time and the rejection means no
have tried that dozens ftimes and
have never known it to fail.
DOUBT ABOUT NEW Los ANGELES
ROAD.
According to late rJmors there Is
still some uncertainty regarding the
building of the proposed line from Los
Angeles to Salt Lake City. The work
back of which is said 10 be the South
ern Pacific is said to be conditional
upon negotiations which are now pend
ing between former Senator Clark and
the authorities OF Salt Lake City. 1t
is said that Mr.. Clark told the Salt
Lake officials that the road would not
he built unless certain concessions
were made in the way of terminal ia
cilities. and that he made no definite
promises as to the route of the propos-
ed line. IL is now reported that an
understanding has been reached with
the Union Pacific. whereby the COM
pany's branch to Uvada. a point on the
Utah & Nevada line. 300 miles south
west of Salt Lake City. will form a
part of the new route. leaving about
400 miles to be built to Los Angeles
II does not seem probable that this
long stretch of existing line will be
paralleled and left uncompleted and its
sale to an independent interest seems
possible. At any rate the project
which has grown out of the old Los
Angeles terminal property has set the
whole railroad world guessing. and
there will likely he some big sur
prises when the veil of mystery is
raised.-Kansas lily Journal.
FACTS ABOUT THE STILLwELL
ROAD.
w. w. Sylvester. vice president of
the Kansas City. Mexico and Orient
railroad. in an interview at Kansas
City had the following to say of the
new we nave fUt
built or under construction. Three
hundred is from Wichita. Kan. to Red
River. Thirty miles of work is done
from Sweetwater. Tex. south. and 65
miles in Mexico. commencing at Port
Stilwell. running northeast to Ell
Fuerte. Rails will be laid between
Hasper and Anthony. Kan. by January
Eight miles of rails are laid from
Sweetwater and San Angelo gave over
100000 to the construction company
and Haskell offers equally as literally
for the road. Traffic arrangements
have been made with the Chicago. Nal
waukee & st. Paul that bring Chicago
nearer the Pacific over the Oriental
line when completed than Kansas City
now is over any other line. An inter
esting fact is that the time from To-
Dolobampo to Kansas City over our
road will be IS hours. The best time
now made between these places is ~
hours. II will be $50 miles shorter to
the coast than any other route. and
will have over 1000 miles of water pass
age to Hong Kong. Honolulu and other
Oriental places. On shipments to our
new possessions over 1900 miles will
be saved on both land and sea. Inside |
of two and one-half years We will be |
running line of steamers to the Phil ]
ippines. Hong Kong and Honolulu. |
Our concessions and subsidies with the |
Mexican government are all complete |
and the line will be in operation in |
side of eighteen months. except 100 |
miles over the Sierra Madre mountains |
in Mexico. which will take twelve |
months longer
SPARKS FROM THE ENGINE |
Fireman Eason. of the T & p. has |
returned to work after a short lay-off |
because he was sick
Fireman Simonson. of the T. & p. is |
on for few runs mad they will be ia |
ken by Fireman r. b. Smith
Commencing yesterday the night tel |
egraph office at Fabens will be closed |
as night office was established at |
San EliZario on that date.
R T. Lyle. a grievance man of the |
o. r. T. returned this afternoon from !
st. Louis. where he had been to at
tend a meeting of the order.
Engineer Alex Mitchell. of the T. &
p. whose run is between Big Springs
and Toyah. is in FL Paso visiting A. B. |
Perkins. an engineer on the Rio Grande
division of the same road.
Storekeeper Passmore. of thee. Fl.
shops has taken a lay-off and will go to
Atlanta. Ga. During his absence his
place will be filed by Clerk McwiI- |
liams of the master mechanics Office.
s. W. Mote. an s p. fireman has been
to Benson. Arizona and
left this afternoon on the delayed pas
senger train with his family for their
new home. He worked out OF this city
for three years.
Ben HUMPHREYS. ear repairer in