Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-31
NOTESOF THE RAIL WAYS
Success of a Mexican Roads
Educational Propaganda.
TRAIN BUTCHER ABOLISHED.

The BurIington's New Plan For Pro-
viding Reading Matter Another
System of Railroad TeIeEraphinG.
The Latest stations In the south.
Cheap Fuel From Texas.
The chihuahua and Pacific railroad
has iraugurated an enterprise which,
while expensive now, will soon be of
great benefit TO the country and indi-
rectly TO the road itself, says the Chi
huahua NIexico) correspondent of the
| New York Post. This is the education
of the Mexican farmer The primitive
way in which many Mexican farms are
conducted would seem almost impossi-
BILE TO the average American, who is
familiar with the improvements in ag-
rlcultural machinery used i'll the United
| States. But in many parts of this coun-
| try, especially in those away from rail-
roads, wheat is still thrashed out with
n hand fail, wine is made by treading
| the grapes under foot, transportation
| is accomplished by OK teams drawing
huge and immensely heavy carts, the
wheels of which are made from the
solid trunks of trees, and modern plows,
harrows and cultivators are unknown.
With such appliances only small crops
: can be obtained, and the officers of the
road decided that if they could intro
duce modern methods they would in
crease the productiveness of the farms
along their route and would in the end
greatly improve their own business.
So they hired Professor J. q. Haney
of the United States agricultural eX-
pertinent station in Kansas and told
him TO show the Mexicans how to run
a farm. They furnished him with
supply of modern farming implements.
such rs the MeXicans could buy If they
wished. and sent him along the line TO
give practical lessons to the hacien-
dados. Mr.. Haney found the farmers
willing students. He furnished them
with seed and showed them how TO use
the tools which he had with him. For
the first time in the history of the coun-
try American plows, harrows and dou-
bile cultivatoTS were used on the farms
along the line of the railroad. The
Mexicans were quick to see the bene-
fits of the new tools. and the crop that
they have Just gathered has proved to |
them that the results of properly work |
ing the soil are TO their financial good. |
The result is that they are buying i'm |
plements similar 10 those used by Mr.
Haney and are preparing to cultivate |
their farms more scientifically in future. |
BY the recent action of the Burling |
ton road the train butcher is done |
away with, says a dispatch from Kan
sas City to the New ork Times. The |
order takes effect Aug. l, and from that |
date passengers will look in vain for
the boy.
AS a substitute and for the purpose
of providing the passengers with read
ing material the company will have
news agents pass through the trains at
the terminals in Kansas City, st. Louis,
Atchison, st. Joseph and Omaha with
newspapers and other reading matter.
III addition a newsboy will be allowed
to leave Kansas City at T:30 n. m. and
return on the Chicago train reaching
Kansas City at $40 o'clock the same
night. This is for the purpose of fur
nishng to passengers morning and aft
eruoon papers. Similar arrangements
VIII pTOD3DlS De Lnaue Ut tue CulCdSO
end of the line.
Pennsylvania railroad officials are eX-
perimenting with Il new system of
telegraphy ON the lines between Phila-
delphia and PittsburG. says the New
York Commercial Advertiser Charles |
NJ. Sheaffer is the superintendent of the
telegraph department. The new meth
od involves the use of perforated paper.
The perforations are made by the oper
ator by the use of n key somewhat
similar to the one now in use. Then
the prepared papers are placed in Il
sender, which equals the speed of six
ordinary operators. The perforated pa
per delivered from n receiver at the
other end of the line IS said to be easily
BILE.
An experiment undertaken some two
years ago in California by the Santa
Fe company, says n writer in The Cos
Magazine. demonstrated that
one ton of coal would carry a certain
train 26.I miles, while n little more
than a ton of oil-2.016 pounds-car-
ried the same train over the same track