El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-02
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are enclosed with brick walls and ar
mostly betneatn the surface of tn
earth.
At present two of the engines ar
pumping directly through the pipe
which conduct the water to the tanl
in the G. II. yards, but after a whil
they will all be used in pumping int
tanks near the wells. for it is the in
tention of the company to erect TIVE
other tanks of the same capacity o
the two already erected, which is so.
900 gallons each.
The pipe through which the water
comes down to the yards is an eight
inch main, four miles long. The pres
sure thus afforded at this end is seven
ty-eight pounds to the square inch
Mr. Edman. who has been superin-
tending the work of erecting the build
ings at the wells and also the gates
and towers at the street crossings in
town. will leave with his men tomor-
row for Maria. where they will erect a
new depot. After the depot is finished
they will return and build the other
tanks at the wells, cell the pump house
and do what other work is necessary to
make the arrangements perfect in ev-
cry particular.
Other contemplated equipments are
an electric light dynamo to light the
building and at telephone line to con-
meet it with the offices of the company
in town.
Some of the expenses necessary to
have this water transferred from the
wells on the mesa to the yard tank are
the salaries of day and night pumper.
repairs, oil and gasoline. the latter be-
ing probably the biggest item. as it re-
quires about 120 gallons of the fuel oil
every twenty-four hours to run the
four engines.
J. Beaumont has been appointed SUI
of the wells, pumps, etc.
and he will be the day pumper and will
engage an assistant to run the engines
1T night. Mr. Beaumont is an old loco
motive engineer. having run an engine
'or several years on the Mexican Cen
trail and previous to his work on that
Dad he was engineer for the Katy, Mis-
souri, Pacific and others.
The water from the mesa wells does
lot damage engine boilers and is the
very liquid the railroad company has
ong been wanting. L. is pleasant to
he taste and the employees are de-
lighted with being so situated as to get
uch good water to drink. 1t is the
uOSt HedlluN WdltI Dc louuu III thC
southwest The city should take tum-
lie to itself and secure this water for
he citizens to drink. 1t would remove
he only barrier of any moment in the
way of the city getting the increase
n population due her, but which is |
low going to Los Angeles and other !
owns of no better climate, but which .
an offer the inducement of good, !
lealthy water to drink.
FACTS.
While it was emphatica1ly denied by
he head men of both the T. & P. and
J. p roads that there is any intention
f a consolidation of the two roads, it
; a singular fact that President Gould /:
f the T. e p. has been travelling over
P lines and President Hays of the S
. over the T. & P. lines.
George Gould, accompanied by his ,
fife, two sons, and Mrs. w. II. Hamil- !
IN, a cousin of Mrs. Gould. and party I
( officials of the Gould interests, was /:
San Antonio from early morning I'M I
| noon Thursday. The railroad Of
Gals with Mr.. Gould are c. G. War ,
er vice-president and general mana
er of the Missouri Pacific; l.. Trice.
eneral manager of the International S
nd Great Northern; superintendent !
overs, Treasurer Henson. and Auditor I
urray, of the Internationay road.
Early Thursday morning President '
avs and party arrived in Dallas from I
From Dallas the party
ok a run out to Athens and back and q
ZEN left in the evening for Waco, e
ON which place they returned to
custom otake the S. p. lines for the G
est.
In President Hays's party are the fol- a
wing officials: Fourth vice president v
I'd general manager J. Kruttschnitt of r
IN Francisco: general manager At n
ntic system w. G. Van Week of
ouston, traffic manager Atlantic sys- .
m G.. W. Bein of Houston; assistant
ssenger and traffic manager S. F. B. C
orse of Houston, vice president and Z
neral manager G.. A. Quinlan of the L
ouston e Texas Central: division SUI a
OF the Central L. A. Daft \
n. Ennis; division superintendent p
the Texas and New Orleans. w. B. "
ulney of Houston; general attorney p
E. Lovett, of Houston. "
II is clear that each president is in a
Getting the lines of the other and 81
presses pleasure with what he has
en-. both in the railroads and in the Il
untry which they traversed. These Il
cts point strongly to the consumma- G
N of the much talked of combination
the two systems.
Such consultations as this would be o
We proved to be satisfactory and ben n
cial to the operators of the roads
d the people of the countries through n
itch they pass. The combination Il
es away with dangerous competition, t,
5ulting in greater prosperity for the
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