El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-10
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above she ordinary water line and fifty
feet above the food line. The other
bridges mentioned are of the same type
OF construction. There are ,429 wood
en- bridges to be replaced with steel and
stone structures. The whole of the
third and fourth sections are to be re-
laid with heavier rails and reballasted.
/ At present the ballast is very insuffici-
ent and the rails are held down by
spikes on the inside only in gains Ia
tpe wooded crosssies- Stations are
about twenty five miles apart, one cid
ing bang at each. The line is OF
| course single track. In rate OF cons
truction the trans-Siberiaa road is far
behind the work on the Union Pacific.
Ten and onehslf miles day was the
record speed of construction on the
American road, while three and three
quarter miles day is the best speed
| the Russians have male. In all it's 600
miles of length the highest elevation
the road crosses Ia one of }, Cos feet In
the Yablodoi (Apple) mountains.-
| York Sun.
A Prob billion Train.
John G Woolley and Henry B Met
calf, candidates for president and vice.
president of the United States on the
y
| she continent and back on q special
prohibition train. The conductors, en-
gineers and trainmen who will have
charge of the train are to be prohibi-
tionists. They will be accompanied
by Oliver Stewart, chairman of the
prohibition national committee, Samuel
Dickie, executive chairman, and other
prominent prohibitionists. In the Diff
resent states the state prohibition oan-
speeches. The train is to start from
Chicago and go east by a northern
route, then come west by southern
route, making San Francisco their
western terminus and then return to
Chicago. 1t is probable that this
train load of 'extra dry" will come
through Ell Paso.
Sparks From the Engine.
President G B Eddy of the E P and
N E went to Alamogordo this morning
in his private car Paso del Norte.
Frank Hovey, G b car repsirer, is
unable to be At his post today on ac-
count of being siok.
Three ckrs of hogs enrouts from Ft.
Worth to Los Angeles passed through
today via T. s. P. and S. P.
E Randolph, superintendent of the
Tucson division of the 8 2, was In the
city over a night and returned to Tuo-
son thfs morning.
Q. E Grant of the Illinois Central
railway who has been in the city for
several days went to Cloudcroft this
morning.
T E Hunt and fsmily returned last
night on the delayed G b train after |
q very pleasant fishing trip down on |
the Pecos river.
o. G. Ern, clerk and operator for |
the Texas & Pacific at Honey Grove, |
Texas, is visiting his sister. Mrs. j. s. |
Morrison, in this city.
Eighteen cars of cattle came in on
the G. b. this morning. They are on |
TO cir way to northern pastures End |
will leave here over the Santa Fe.
Eight of the steel coal cars for the
E. P. & N. E. arrived today. They are |
of $4,000 pounds capacity and will |
greatly facilitate the shipping of coal
over this read.
Mort McCsrty, assistant on the air |
bench at the G. 81. shops, who has been
sick for the past two weeks, was able |
to pay the shop boys visit this morn
ing.
Mrs G o Hawkins and little son came
to Ell Paso from Denison yesterday
evening to join husband and father in
Iheir new home here. Mr.. Hawkins is
! car repairer in the G 81 shops. Their
little daughter has been here since
Monday.
E S. Stafford, chief engineer Of the
chihuahua and Pacific railroad, went
,ut on the Mexican Central this morn
ng ON his way to his home in Chihua-
,ua. He has been in the east on bust
less the past twO months.