El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19
CONDUCTORS HOUSE DAMAGED.

Conductors HOUSE DAMAGED.
Charles Allen. passenger conductor
on the G. H.. came near losing his
house by fire last night. An alarm was
turned III aobut $50 from the corner
of Missouri and Oregon STREETS and
when the department arrived the fire
men found the house of Mr.. Allen so
full! of smoke that it was some time be-
fore they could tell where the fire
was. but it was finally located and ex-
tinguished. 4 panel door was burned
and a considerable hole was made in
the floor before the fire could be put
out. The fire was tsarted in some
manner by a gas lamp.
SPARkS66. o.. g 90 %
Orange shipping has commenced
again in earnest, the shipments
through this place to easteran markets
being greater now than ever before.
The shipment eastward over the L. &
p. alone today amounted to AS cars.
Fourteen cars of southern cattle
came in this afternoon over the T. &
=. on their way TO Los Angeles to be
made into beef.
The local lodge of Forester3 will
give an entertainment and dance to-
morrow night. The entertainment will
come first, then dance, with lunch
and refreshments saEdwiched between.
Mariana Bustillos. an extra man of
the car cleaning department of the T
& p. shops, is working in place of
Henry Simmons. who is laying off
nursing some mashed fingers.
BETTER TRACKS FOR G. H.
The work of laying seventy-five-
pound steel rails on the G.. III. from
it's crossing with the |. & G.. n. in San
Antonio to Lacoste. a distance of
TT mil lac hoe iIrCf hoe
pleted and the work of laying eighty
pound steel rails between Lacoste and
Del Rio will soon be commenced. Five
gangs of men will be put to work lay
ing steel and ballasting as soon as the
material arrives and it is expected that
they will lay about twelve miles a
month. This will be the first eighty
pound rails laid in the state and will
give the G.. III. a 172-miles stretch of
track without an equal in Texas.
Steel rails began to be used in the
United States in 1868 and previous to |
that all track was of iron. The uses to
which steel is put are increasing all
the time. Ninety-two per cent of the
mileage of track in the United States
at this date is of steel. Many roads
are making all their orders for new
cars for steel ones. Recently the Chi
cago. Lake Shore & Eastern placed an
order for $50 of the largest freight
cars ever built. They will be of press
ed steel and will weigh $4,000 pounds
each, with a capacity of 10000 pounds
each The weight of the largest car
heretofore built is $4,000 with a ca
pacity of 10000. 1t is predicted that
within ten years the construction of
cars from anything but steel will be
THE OLD RELIABLE.
Henry Simmons. T. & p. car clean
err. is taking a lay of for a few days
to recover from the effects of an acct
dent which happened to him while at
work yesterday. While cleaning car
he got two fingers of his right hand {
Mr. Simmons said he rather wanted i
to take few days off any way. so that '
he can sneak around and see if he can i
find any property in which he could
invest some money. He has recently
sold some real estate at Gordon. Texas, 6
and wants to invest the proceeds in
better town. :
He says though that he believes Cor ,
don will be a better town, as he thinks !,
oil will be found there, and he has re-
tanned considerable property in that ;
place in order to share in the boom !
which will come when oil is discovered.
he says lHey nave Sdo thCiC =
that burns SO we'll the wind cannot :
blow it out and he believes that some I
Of these days some fellow will dig down
a little deeper than anybody has yet q
dug and he will find oil. r
NEW STEAMSHIP LINE TO SOUTH I
AMERICA. :
The San Francisco Examiner states p
that the Huntington railroads in Mex n
Co were not included in the recent sale u
Of the Southern Pacific to the Wander =
bits and some important developments n
in that country may reasonably be ex- +
Dected. u
The Mexican Information is owned
by the Huntington. Stanford and some
New York interests and is one of the T
lew roads in Mexico that is not subsi- v
liked by the government. The road L
S now building to the Pacific coast at f
MazatIan and when completed to that
POINT the Pacific mail steamship COM
,any will operate its ships to South q
America through the port of Mazatlan L
instead of San Francisco. The freight Ii
will then go through Eagle Pass and s
,an Antonio instead of the main line
# the Southern Pacific. Some of the
directors of the International want to v
ell the road to the Vanderbilts but e.
,thers object and it may remain an
Independent road. IL
sURIED UNDER ENGINE.
Engineer. Pete Riley of the K c.