Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-06-18
ALONG THE RAILS.
Interesting Information Regarding
Railroad officials and Employees.
NEWS IN ABBREVIATED FORM.

+. II. Smith has been advanced to
the position of chief dispatcher at San
Marcial.
The first station has beer opened
on the III Paso a. Northeastern extern
sion. II Is called Coyote and Is twelve
miles beyond Carri2osa.
II is stated upon undoubted author.
ity that the lei Paso a Northeastern
railroad will build a line from n point
east of the Pecos river, north to the
Dawson coal fields in the Maxwell
grant, Colfax county.
Thirty-one railway conductors have
made reports To the Kansas labor com.
missioner Of work and pay for the
year. An average run of 1858 miles
per month was made. Their average
annual income vas Sl,07i and their
expenses s77S.
John Sebastian, general passenger
agent OF the Rock Island, accompanied
by II. Cover, general freight agent,
were at A~lamOgordo from El Paso and
went up to ~Cloudcroft on the regular
train, accompanied by A. s. Greig and
A. j. King. They returned the same
evening on n special.
The contract for building the new
III paso Il Northeastern railroad shops
at ~AlamUgordo was let to John Quin-
liven a Son. The grounds are laid
out and the lumber Is 10Y being
sawed. The work of construction will
begin Ext week. II will he completed
IN u month or six weeks.
Engineer w. II. Barton. OF San Mar
cial, sprung this one on the boys: II
| a tpatn IAaHag IIttg.,nt,u. TO-. III
Paso with II running speed of sixty
miles an hour. and another train
leaves III Paso for Albuquerque at
identically the same time and at the
| rate of thirty.iyc miles an hour, which
will be the nearest to albuquerque at
the passing point? The answer is
dead easy.
This is a funny world. as the follow.
ing will testify: There is q helper
working for the Santa Fe in Newton
who receives sl.25 a day and works
six days a week. His monthly pay
will amount to about $50. There is
another railroad mar in Newton who
earns 81 a day, or anywhere from 500
to $3.50 Il month. The strange part of
the story lies In the fact that the
latter's wife does the washing for the
u'lI''l y ldlllN fNtll Wtth, |ltttlNlUB
therefor 30 cents. This is a true story.
The Alamogordo Advertiser says:
W. j. INLAY, while riding along the
railroad track above town Wednesday
evening found a horse fast on the
track at the culyert near the park.
Not being able TO remove the animal
without assistance he sen word down
to the switching crew and an engine
was sent up. The horse was gotten
OF the track Just as the delayed train
from the north came up. The train
comes down the grade pretty lively
ut that place and had not MIR. Inlay
happened along at the right time the
horse, at least, would have been u to-
tai wreck.
In 1900 there were more locomotives
built In the United States than during
any previous year, the total being g.
1853, This is $50 In excess OF the pre-.
yiOus year, which was also "A record
breaker. OF the total number turned
out, 545 were compound engines. or
IA per cent of the total. The number
Of compounds built in 1898 was 20
per cent of the total, apparently indi-
eating that the compound has not Sc
cured as sure "A footing as some IN.
gineers seem to think. The number
exported reached sos, or about 2 per
cent less than In 1899. In 1898 80 per
cent of the total number were export,
ed, In 1897 81 per cent and in 1896 20
per cent.