El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-26
HAVE TAKEN CHARGE.


President Ripley of the Santa Fe
and party have just compelled tour
over the Pecos Valley road in the pres
ident's private car and have taken
possession of the new acquisition.
While on the trip they held business
session at which Mr.. Hagerman, his
son Percy and Mr.. Otis resigned their
positions and other directors were
elected in their stead, two of whom
are H L. Nudge and ID. A Sweat, who
were in the party. The local directors
We're left unchanged They went
south over the line and returned by
way of Ell Paso. 1t is rumored at the
southern end of the Pec1s line that
the Santa Fe will build an extension
of the p. V. road to San Angelo in the
near future. At that place the road
would connect with the Gulf, Colorado
e. Santa Fe for aGlveston. The little
city of Pecos at the southern end of
the present Pecos Valley line would re-
ceive a great boom by this extension.
The general opinion, however, is that
the company will first construct their
extension from Roswell to Ell Paso, as
this would be of more benefit to the
Santa Fe than the San Angelo extern
sion. 1t is probable though that the
latter extension will be built in time
A
In Albuquerque Thursday evening
the following officials of the great San
ia Fe system gathered: E. P. Ripley,
president; E. D. Kenna, first vice pres
ident: H. U. Nudge, general manager;
Arthur G. Wells, general manager
Santa Fe Pacific; Jas. NJ. Barr, third
vice president; and Superintendent
Fox and McNally of the New Mexico
and Rio Grande divisions. The rain
officers were on their way home from
an inspection trip over the Pecos road
and other lines of the system and were
met in Albuquerque by the others Inc
remarks of President Ripley at that
place regarding the proposed AlDu-
querque short line which is to connect
with the Pecos Valley road were con-
strued to mean that the line would
be built when the proper amount OF
announcement and assurance could be
given toward the project. The ofhelals
made it known in Albuquerque that
the new hotel which the company is
building in that city will be known as
the .Alyaredo" instead of the san F'e-
line" as it was first reported. PreSl-
dent Ripley proceeded westward from
Albuquerque Thursday night.
WATER IS RUNNING.
Yesterday afternoon the water was
started through the pipes which con-
duct the water from the mesa wells or
the G. H. to the yeards. There are
four wells, ten inches in diameter anu
2921b feet deep, with a total capacity or
abo,,, 400 OOO Gallons per day. TIC
each we'll is pump and gasoline en-
CINE. AS yet only three of the pumps
are running. because the plunger OF
one is hung in the well, presumably
in the sand at the bottom The water
now running is only for a test ana Will
not be put to practical use until the
tanke are erected at the wells. There
are to be two $4,000 gallon standard
tanks erected at the wells and the
work of building the frames for them
was commenced yesterday. The work
of LAYING the concrete foundation for
them has been under way for some
time and the foundations are now
complete.
THE PEASLEES HELD.
Walter Hudnall, special agent of the !,
u. 5. treasury department, has return
ed to San Antonio from the Mexican !
border where he has been looking after |
the interest of the government in the |
Peaslee smuggling case. The case is
that of c. H. railroader named Peas |
lee and his wife, who, it is alleged, |
have been smuggling goods into the !
United tSates for years and disposing |
of them to different establishments |
over the United States. They are held
under 81 900 bond each to appear be-
fore the grand jury and their cases |
will! come up before the federal court |
in Ell Paso in April next
A SIGNIFICANT CONTRACT.
John j. Kirby has returned to Hous-
ton from Chicago with contract for
furnishing the Atchison, Topeka & !
Santa Fe railway system with 100000
railroad ties and a large lot of p1ling |
for bridges, ETC.. all of which will re-
ouire at least 250,OOO, 900 feet of lum-
Der.
The letting of the contract for such |
an enormous amount of ties and piling |
in addition to the amount the company |
receives annually certainly means that |
the company intends tc build a large |
of new tracks, the first or |
which will undoubtedly be the extern |
sion Of the newly acquired Pecos VAL
ley to Ell Paso.
TWO WRECKER CALLS.
Chief Car Repairer Borcherding and |
his wrecking crew were called out to |
Iser yesterday afternoon to repair +!
freight car. The car was set out at |
that station on account of broken
truck ana they went down to take out |
the broken truck and put in a new
one. They arrived back home about