El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-31
Paint Gang Off.

G.. b. shops received painful wouno
N his eye Saturday. caused oy MS
wrench clipping BE was aole W
return to work this morning. -sLs
BURST Water Car. ii -;
A water car on the T & P that came
in with a freight train yesterday was
hurst and leaking and was put In the
chops where 1t is being pascneo TO
day.
Leave OF Absence
Joe whslen .au engineer running out
ot San Luis Pososi on the Mexican
Central. formerly division foreman at
Jimulco, left this morning for the east
on asixty day leave of absence. He
will spend his vacation In Atlantic City,
New York, and other eastern c1sies.
Five Cars Of Pipe
Five cars OF water pipe went down
the Sierra Madre road yesterday Is 1s
from Delaware and Ia going to the
Corralitos Cattle company to be useo
in piping wster from the mountain
springs for the use OF cattle.
The Hospital For Engines
Texas & Pacific passenger engine
224. which has been In the shops At
Big Springs, undergoing a genera
oyerhsnling, WAS brought In to Ell
Paso hit.hed to freight train yester-
day aud went out pulling the pas
senee this morning. Engine 2o4 that
has been pulling the passenger Tor
PA went out today with q freight train
and will probably go to the shops to
uud ergo repairs. Freight engine 19o
is In the shops here being overhauled.
On His Way To CloudCroft.
CD Sloat, of Fit. Worth, general
passenger and ticket agent OF the
Chicago, Rock Island and Texas rail-
road. is in Ell Paso lay on his way to
Cloudcroft. Mr. Sloat says his COM
pany is making several extensions Ia
Oklahoma and the Indian Territory
one of which Is into MauRum, the
county seat of Greer county, Oklahoma,
and this will be completed within three
or four weeks. Greer county Is that
part of Oklahoma lying between the
north and south forks of the Red
,.ve-. hich GAS the cause of a dispute
between the Uoited States snd Texas,
and has been finally decided to belong
to the former.
Coal for the T. p.
The Texas & Pacific company are
storing awav their winter supply of
G bal. They " IL put 2 900 tons In their
Din here and ill every bin on the line
They will coal off cars now during
the lull in fire. Rht traffic and save their
bin supply until the fall rusb. A re-
cent issue of the SsntsFe New Mexican
say. 1aat Ine T. & P. have been get
tn, their coal from the White Oaks
but this Is an error, for the T. & P.
have for years owned the largest mines
in Texas. They are located atThurber |
and Gordon. The T. 81 ?. furnish |
other companies with coal instead of
going to other companies for 1t.
A Curious Mountain Engine
The Baldwin Locomotive Works
River railroad, which extends from |
Upton to McCloud, California, new
and peculiar noun tain-clim bling engine. |
1t is double affair and has the sp-
pesrance of two engines with their cabs
verCing iato ore and their faces turned |
in opposite directions. 1t is designed
for climbing the steep grades
of the road and is capable of pulling 125
tons of freight in heavy cars up rise
It's own weight of ISL, 400 pounds.
One engineer and one fireman are ell
that Is required to operate 1t. Each
of the two parts of the double engine
has elk 40',"h drivers, but no trucks,
and four CYL nders, two high and two
low pressure. It has stood sstisfsc-
,ory test.
deW Coal Arrangements For The
S. p.
The company has developed
the coal mines of its line near Eagle
Pass and ia supplying the western di-
-ision with coal from them. This di-
-ision has until recently been supplied
With coal from mines on the White
oaks route but the contract with that
ompauy TO furnish coal for the T. & P.
las expired and will not be renewed.
As result the coal traffic on the White !
oaks route has decreased. The coal
rom near Eagle Pass is said to be In
erior in quality to the White Oaks
oal and a much larger amount is re-
uired but is accepted by the S. p.
because the mines are located on its ,
thereby the White Oaks road will die
,snies. II
[lrby Again. Il
The purchase of the Gulf, Beaumont ,
I Kansas City railway by the Santa
'e brings before the public again the ,
anne of John Henry Kirby, the man
rom whom the Santa Fe REQUIRED its
Attest great acquisition. Mr.. Kirby is
ne of The most successful men of the
tate. He started out in east Texas ,
With no capital but ambition,
nd in few years has acquired ,
or himself fortune and introduced |
he whir of business into many back I
districts of the state, giving to the ,
PEOPLE means of swift communication |