Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1901-02-23

n. 5. Van Slyck, the assistant ~!
stock agent for the santa Re, with
headquarters nj III Paso, Is In the city.
/. l.. uibbard, who was here yester.
day, returned west last night. Tie 6.
the well known division superintendent
Of the Santa Fe Pacific.
Frank Graham. who arrived az Las
Vegas iew days ago with his wife aud
ihree children, has accepted a position
IN the Office Of Superintendent Fox.
Three passenger crews on the New
Mexico division have been assigned H.
the western division, running between
Dodge City and Ration, going into effect
Immediately
w. a. Hyde has been appointed train.
master ~ the northern Giyil on % the
Gulf, Colorado a Santa Fe, with Office
at Clobmrne, Tex, IN place OF J. H.
liyrne, assigned 10 other duties.
W. X. Ettor, who has been chief
clerk 10 Superintendent Hurley for the
past seven years, IN Las Vegas, Il Il
understood has accepted position un.
der the division Superintendent al
Needles, California.
The Santa 70 Pacific well borers Al
Mannettu struck vein ~ natural gas
NJ depth OF 400 feet The machinery
was raised nearly 30 tho top OF the wen
by the force Of tho gas. The drillors
have since worked past the vein.
Contractors !. j. Fox aud son j. w.
Fox, have the contract for AL tho
bridge, stone and culverf work on the
neW extension Oi the I1Ock Island, la.
Guiding two large bridges, one crossing
the PecOs and the other the Canadian
rivers.
Owing to a large amount ~ extra
work a night shift started to work last
night 90 the local railway shops, and
viii be materially increased In all the
departments as the work accumulated.
WOrkmen Ia the boiler department
worked up 'till o'clock this morning.
J. T.. Hurley, general superintendent
81 the santa Re Pacific, came In from
the west yesterday and LEI, last nipht
Tor Las Vegas, FOR the purpose Of max
ing arrangements 80 remove his family
- Los Angeles whore they will reside
la the future. Mr. Hurley IA one ol
the best and most popular railroad OIL.
cials In this section.
The years 1899 and 1900 were pros.
porous ones. FOR tho Order Of Railway
Conductors. The order had 3ss subOf-
dinate divisions aud q 800 members
December Jlst, 1888, compared with
lOI subordinate divisions aud 2i,G4l
members December 3lst, iOOO During
the two years the benefit department
paid Insurance claims aggregating 81,
025,OOO.
A corps of Santa Fo railway enpi.
ncers are at work west Of Las Vegas
running lines through Karney's gap
and oui by Table mountain, with a view
10 strengthening the line cut that way
and cutting on several miles ~ haul
This viii do away with Romero hill.
Sulzhacher hill, IecOlotc hin and
blanchard hill, and the hills between
Fulton aud Oiise ana between Rowe aud
Pesos. New stations will he established
and the old track taken up.
Funny things arc often seen al a rail.
way eating house when the trains are
la. The other morning two elderly
ladies came hurricdly lei from tho
sleeper On One Of the DELAYED trains 10
breakfast One secuted perfectly nm
conscious that she had Ia her hurry
forgotten "a put On her dress skirt, and
most sereReiy ate her breakfast ln "A
short pettiooat, much 10 the amusement
oi the other travellers, while the other
lady had failed 10 button her waist, thus
displaying lno pair OF cOrsets.
says the Optic: RumOrs have bean
allOat Ia the effect that the new ar
rangement Of the division points would
cause several families 10 leave Las
Vegas, the reason heiug that passenger
crews would run from Ration tO Albu.
querque. This n not founded On fact,
IA the least, but upon the fact thai