Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-11-18
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL

December 81.
Tho new Santa Fe freight house
at Williams Is now almost complete
ami IL quite an ornament.
A Mohave Indian, at work nj the
Needles Shops. was badly burned with
hot oil and steam the other day.
Fireman Hayes took sick here last
Friday and was unable to go north,
Fireman Julian taking his place.
The estimable wife of c. NJ. Taylor.
the well known division master me
chanic. is reported quite III at her
home at Rston.
Engines Nos. 1850 and 2162 passed
through Albuquerque from the eastern
division to the Santa Fe Pacific, for
runs oui Of Gallup.
The Ratcn Pass lodge. No. 221. -.
Of X. T.. VIII give a ball at Ration on
November 10 The Ladies' Auxiliary
will serve lunch In connection with
the ball.
Tho gathering Of railroad on ,ials
and Contractors AZ Springer today
probably means that the contract for
tho construction OF the Dawson cog
road will be let.
Tho surveyors OF the El Paso 4
Northeastern road, who have been
surveying north OF Springer, moved
their camp Thursday to Turkey can.
yOn, east IT Springer.
Tie Record says: Engineers J. u.
Reed and Evans and Fireman Doh
man dead headed back to Las Vegas
from Albuquerque after taking light
engines to- that point.
James Carlisle, a former Las Vegas
and Albuquerque railroader. Is now
~railroading out OF Salt Lake City.
Utah. His brother is in the shoe bust.
ness somewhere in Kansas.
a. ID Grimn has the contract to
grade twenty miles on the Dawson
branch between the Santa Fe road
and Dawson. Colfax county, and will
commence work in about a month.
II. Y Nudge. general manager of
the Santa Fe, has issued n circular
notifying employees that a number of
changes have been made In the Brown
lsnterit discipline system now In use
By the ront
The Santa Fe Pacific is putting In
iron bridges and stone culverts be
tween Kiugman and the Colorado riv.
er. Lantry brothers have several
gangs Of mon at work on the culverts
and bridges below Yucca.
The Pennsylvania Construction
company have started things to NOV.
ing on the building OF the Santa Fe
Central railway as their engineers are
al work setting the grade stakes and
| supplies ave arriving every few days,
says the Cerrillos Register.
Engine No. 2l96 with Engineer
Wrisht and Fireman Roots on board
| ard Engine No. 374 with Engineer
Talbot and Fireman McLarty arrived
from the Forth the other day. n
they are en- route to the Santa Fe
Pacific to tie eastern division.
The Santa Fe Railway company is
laying a double track from Morley
to the Ration tunnel In order that
trains will not be delayed az they
have been with the single track. 1t
looks as though Ration people need
not worry fbout being left on a sin.
gle track.
The Santa Fe Pacific Railroad com
pany viii convert al the engines on
the division between Needles and Sci.
lyman into oil burners before the first
OF January. Many OF the engines have
already been converted and the say
ing In fue, Is considerable, while the
danger from fire to the cars has been
minimized
Work is steadily progressing on the
new Alvarado hotel and there Is little
doubt that II will be completed and
ready for occupancy by the first OF
January. The plasterers have about
finished their work on the big con
tract. Glass for the windows are
already on the ground and will soon
be put in place.
The traLch of the Bisbee road from
Deming To the main line south of
Demiug. distance OF ~thirty-five miles,
is completed and Deming can boast OF
another railroad, II having nov NOR
railroads tram any other city In New
Mexico. Deming Is bound to be one
OF the leading cities OF the future
state of New Mexico.
There Is a wonder in the way OF
rock work lear Santa Rosa. II Ia a
cut through solid rock, 1,200 feet In
length. eighty feet deep and thirty
feet widc at the top. Four hundred
men are employed on the work. The
%ahutments are now completed for the
new $4,000 bridge across the Pecos
near Santa Rosa, and the Orders are
now being put in
IL Is said that q majority or the
Santa Fe switchmen who are out on
n strike at Pueblo are not even mem
hers of the switchmen's union, which
Is striking against the Denver a
Rio Grande. The Santa Fe strike al
p,.ll, Ia A .pp,tathu gtrfln hPntUhI
on by the refusal of the men to han
die cars transferred to the Santa FL
from the Denver a. Rio Grande.
} Leo Ucrsch has returned to Santi
Re from a business trip to Del Norte
AntOnito aud Alamosa, In southern
Colorado. The people OF that sectioi
look forward with joy to the building
of the Santa Fe Central railroad
which 10 them virtually neal al
extension OF the Denver & Rio Grand
railroad to El Paso and opens neN
markets for the products OF the ric.
San Luis valley,
Tho strike OF bOilermakers in tn
shops Of the FL Paso Il Northeastern
continues to cause the company
great deal Of trouble, says the I'll Pas
Herald Tho bad quality Of the waite
used on this road makes II necessar
that the fuos OF the engines he clear
cd and fcnaired after each trip.
shortage az workmen In the boile
8 shops makes this impossible. and tn
result Is that the engines die on IN
road.
Soligman correspondent OF the WI
liams News says: The regular al
: nual increase Of business on the roa
: has begun and in consequence Sell
mans population has swelled. theret
putting to work an extra hostler, no
tier helper and call hoy. Even wit
the extra improvements made and I
cilities for handling freight all alou
T the line. the increase OF engines an
rolling stock. IL Is feared the compaT
will he tord pushed to handle Il
] steadily accommodating amount
freight.
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