Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-06-26
Interesting Information Regarding
Railroad officials and Employees,
NEWS IN ABBREVIATED FORM.

rumor has IL that he will return with
a bride.
The railway property in New Mex.
limo is said to be worth $4,000. 900
more than the assessed value OF all
New Mexico.
DR.. Elder and mother have returned
after a visit to Denver friends. The
doctor is the surgeon In charge of the
local railway hospital.
There is a bulletin posted al the
round house which gives the working
hours at the shop at from Z to 8. ex.
cept on Saturday, when work will stop
at 8 o'clock.
J. w. Fox, the railroad contractor,
has found some fine grade ore while
cXcavating on the grade near Santa
Pc. He will file on them and no doubt
make a miner.
The El Paso 4 Northeastern is now
running trains to Coyote. a station
~ miles beyond Carrizozo. This is
the first station Of the extension to
meet the Rock Island.
w. J. Black, general passenger agent
Of the Santa Fe railway, is of the
opinion that the summer travel to
lOlOIduO lulS year Will bItdh all IT,
cords. why not New Mexico. too.
James Boyce, a well known boiler
maker at the local shops, will leave
tomorrow for the east on a
months vacation. He will visit
his old home in Oswego. N. Y, then
the Pan-American exposition at Buf.
falo, N. Y.
The Roswell Register says A. l..
Conrad, auditor, and George G. stark
weather, superintendent OF the South
Crn Kansas railway company OF Texas
and the Pecos system, passed down
the road last Saturday and paid the
boys"
Four new reading rooms are to be
built on the Santa Fe during the pre-
sent year, the aggregate expenditure
10 be In the vicinity of $4,000. They
will be located at Woodward, o. T.,
la Junta, Colo. Gallup, n. NJ, and
Raton, n. NJ.
The Gallup Republican says the
many friends of Mrs. Il. II. Harlow.
the esteemed wife of our former mas
ter mechanic. will be disappointed to
learn that the lady has changed her
plans and will not visit Gallup for
ONE time to come.
The Santa Fe will be represented
at the Pan-American exposition, Buff
falo. by two noteworthy exhibits. One
OF these is an electric diorama OF
the Grand Canyon OF Arizona. The
other Is a set of one hundred photos
for the United States government pos
tai exhibit.
=. s. Blodgett, general superinten.
dent Of the Lake Shore 4 Michigan
Southern railway. and who numbers
many personal friends In New Mexico,
has resigned his above position to ac-
cept a like one with the New York
Central Il Hudson River road, with
headquarters in New York city.
The Santa Fe railroad has ordered
1875 new locomotives, all to be deliver
ed by January !. 1902. It is said that
this big order is placed preparatory
to meeting the greatly increased traf.
fc that will accrue from the Hamburg
American steamship line recently hav-
ing bought a controlling interest In the
Santa Fe.
A charter has been granted at Aus
tin to the Choctaw. Oklahoma a Texas
with the avowed abject of building a
line of railway from Oklahoma City to
Amarillo, Texas. This is another i'm
portant outlet for New Mexico and Its
value will be still greater II this road
builds to Albuquerque and 1t is rumor-
ed that IL will.
The manager of the Santa Fe rail
way In south Texas says his company
expects to buy Beaumont oil for 20
cents per barrel and four barrels OF
the fuel will do as much to make
steam as one ton of $3.50 coal. This
will effect n saving of $27O on each
1000 tons of coal now burned daily
by the Santa Fe Texas lines.
G. c. West, who has many friends
in Gallup, stopped over there on his
way from Albuquerque to Jerome
Junction, Arizona, where he has been
stationed for the past two years as
agent of the Santa Fe., Prescott 4
Phoenix railroad. Mr.. West was To-
Gated at Gallup for several years as
agent OF the Atlantic Il Pacific road.
J. h. Davis. the station agent at the
Denver a. Rio Grande depot, Santa
Fe. received the sad news that his
g.month-old son had died at Newton.
| Kan, whore he had been on a visit
with Mrs. Davis. But an hour before
the dispatch arrived Mr.. Davis had
| received the dispatch from Newton
| stating that while the baby was a lit.
tie cross he was In good health.
Last night another unfortunate &C.
cident happened to Zicbler, a railroad
fireman. A few days ago he was dis
charged from the local hospital cured
of a broken limb, and went to work
on the switch engine in the local
yards. Last night he fell and the
same broken leg was snapped again.
He was taken to the hospital, where
he will remain for several months
longer.
The Rock Island has issued notices
Of the establishment of four new
towns on the Liberal extension OF its
line toward lei Paso, Texas. They are!
Optima, O. T., 30.4 miles west OF Lib
eral, Kan, n. s. Collins, agent, Te-
homa, O.. T, COL miles west OF Libe-
raj, w. III, Plum, agent; Stratford,
Texas, so miles west OF Liberal, J. Z.
Campbell, agent; Dalhart, Texas, lll.2
miles west Of Liberal.
George Estes, president OF the Bro.
therhood of Railway Employees, an
nounces that the headquarters Of the
uIO|lHtlHOou VIII Dt ulONtu lIOm Dan
Francisco to Denver in the ear fu,
ture. This organization admits all
railway employees, without reference
TO their particular line OF labor. 1t ID
a comparatively new order, but is said
to have a large membership among
the railway employees OF the west.
After a thorough test OF the Ben
son switch lamp the Santa Fe has
found II to be satisfactory and II will
become the standard switch lamp OF
the system. They will burn six days
and nights without being replenished
and In that time only consumes eigh'
teen ounces Of oil, which will be a
saving Of about two-thirds the amount
now used. II will require 5000 OF the
lamps TO supply the system.
News has been received at Grand
Forks, n. D., that the agents OF the