Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-08-16
ALONG THE RAILS.
Interesting Information Regarding
Railroad officials and Employees,
NEWS IN ABBREVIATED FORM.

Owing to a delay the Santa Fe pay
checks, due yesterday. will not reach
the city until tomorrow.
The Mocui Indian snake dance will
take place on August "a, not on the
22nd. Special rates offered by tha
Santa Fe railroad.
Hanson, Purcell. Murphy. Evans an
Wright, all firemel, are in Las Vegas
for the purpose OF taking the exam
ination for engineers.
Ben Williams, who is the special OF
flcer on the Santa Fe road. with home
and headquarters In this city. returnc |
from the south this morning.
American locomotives are the most
powerful in the world. They are also
the cheapest. The increasing demanl
for them abroad is easily understoodo.
The rainfall at Chloride during the
storm that washed away a portion OF
the Arizona a. Utah track was as
inches. all Of which fell within an
hour.
Several hundred Greek laborers who
have been working on the Santa BE
extensions In Texas are being shipped
to Utah 20 work on the Union Pacific
improvements.
A passenger car full of laborers left
Santa Fe for Salida, Colo. to work on
the Denver a. Rio Grande railroad.
which is changing the narrow gauge
from Alanosa to Salida to standard
guage.
Thomas Breen, q well known en-.
gineer from Burlington, Ia, is here,
being int oduced around by Martin
$. Tierney. the street commissioner.
Mr.. Breen will take an engine on tn
Santa Fe Pacific.
Positive information has been re-
ceived In Las Vegas by one OF Its cis.
liens. who interviewed the Rock
Island officials concerning the Dawson
coal road. that the road will not be
built through that city.
The Stete Journal says: Gus Os.
man. foreman OF the brass corner Of
the machine shop, will leave some
time this week for Albuquerque. where
he will work for the Santa Fe. He has
had poor health tor awhile and ex-
poets to lie benefited by the change.
N. ]. Gildner and George Haynes.
two well known conductors from
Rochester. N. V, ere in the city AMI
we're being introduced to albuquerque
citizens yesterday by Conductor G. o.
Snyder. The gentlemen will have
charge of trains on the Santa Fe Pa.
cific out Of this city.
The Santa Fe Pacific Railroad com.
pany is putting -four new stalls in the
roundhousc at Seligman. making.
when completed, twelve stalls In the
roundhouse. Plans for a new Harvey
eating house at that place have been
prepared. II will be of brick and con.
crete, two stories high and contain
twenty rooms In the second story.
Mrs. Arthur G.. Hayes has returned
to Topeka, after a fruitless search for
her runaway son, Robert. who, In
company with another boy namel
Kendall, left Topeka June 81. The
boys migrated toward the southwest,
the mothe' reaching the city just two
days afta; Robert and Kendall had
departed for the Pacific coast. Mar.
shall MtMiilin has been requested to
keep a lookout for the little runaways.
The Gallup Republican says: A
number ., boys of the Colorado q
Gulf surveying party which has been
camped at Sylvester's old ranch for
the past week. were In town last Sun.
DAY. We understand that IL took them
nearly n week to get down a hill
ear the ranch. The distance ira V
eled by the line was something like
three miles and in that distance there
are nine i~5-degree curves, besides sew.
eral other curves not so sharp. This
Is the NoIst piece OF country on the
line between here and Durango. We
also learned that the engineers n
both ends-Durango and Clifton 90
were running final surveys.
The Mobave County Miner says: II
Is rumore | In railroad circles that II IL
he intention of the Santa Fe to buill
a branch line to Eldorado canyon from
a point on the main line near hex,
eight miles west of the Needles. The
line will rass up through the valley
to Searchlight and will then veer
around to the west and pass on up to
the canyon This line would open up
one of the richest mineral regions on
the Pacific coast and would prove to
be a big paying short line. Besides
Searchligh. and the canyon IL would
reach the mines of the river section
that are 10Y inaccessible. II this road
were built the business of Eldoradp
canyon alone would maintain II, while
the profits would come from the in.
~termediate business of Searchlight
and the liver mines.