Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-07-03

Ihere are 1875 companies who have
signed the per diem" agreement, rep
senting 1,345, 900 cars.
The new trainmaster of the Mexico
City division of the Mexican Central
is Moses Dillon, formerly collector of
customs at FL Paso.
After a shut down of two weeks, the
Alamogordo shops We're r%eopened on
Tuesday, July 1. About 200 men are
employed in all the departments.
Along the Rio Grande river below
Rincon, N. M, the Santa Fe tracks
have been raised about seven feet to
prevent damage from the foods.
c. NJ. Jacobson, the general foreman
at the local shops, now occupies with
his family the frame house on the
south side of the general Offices, on
South Second street.
A new car shop 24x100 feet in d.
mansions is among the contemplated
improvements to be made by the Santa
Fe at La Junta. The material has al
ready arrived, and work is to be COM
menced at once.
The general freight Offices of the
Santa Fe will shortly be moved from
Topeka to Kansas City and Chicago.
The vic president, general attorney,
general manager. and general passen-
ger agent will remain in Topeka.
According to a railroad paper the
Santa Fe will build a drawbridge in
San Francisco to cost $4,000. 1t will
he over Channel street on the line of
Third, and the necessary concession
has been made already by the city.
The Santa Fe freight department on
this division report that the traffic has
picked up considerably during the past
few weeks and that it is almost as
good as it was last season at this time.
Last years business was particularly
heavy.
At the last annual meeting of the AS
ISOLATION of Railway Telegraph Super
intendents, held at Chicago last month,
the use Of typewriters for receiving
messages over telegraph wires, was
endorsed. They claimed that type
written train orders assure speed and
legibility.
John T. Wilson, president of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trackmen of
America, was offered a bonus of $685.
600 and S. 1000 a year to take an eXecu-
tive position with the Canadian Pacific
but will refuse the offer and remain
where he is. He is the kind of man
the labor organizations are seeking.
The Topeka State Journal says:
Special car 900, which belongs to the
directors. has been brought here dead
head and Monday was being stocked
and repaired preparatory to going out
with c.. S. Gleed. of this place, as its
occupant. Mr.. Gleed is to go from
here to Phoenix. Ariz., by way of Den
yer, Colo, and other points.
Fred Gilyeat, formerly a clerk in the
Office of the Superintendent Mcclellan,
at Topeka, but a few months recently
on the claims clerk under Auditor of
Freight Receipts Healy, has resigned
and has gone to Las Vegas, n. NJ,
where he becomes timekeepeT for the
engineers and firemen of the division
having its headquarters there.
General Manager Avery Turner, of
the Pecos valley road, is also author
ity for the statement that the Santa
Fe o a will 500 commence the con-
struction of the cut off from some
point on the Pecos Valley road to Al
buquerque. This is an important piece
of work for the company and will put
that section in much closer connection
with the territorial metropolis.
An excess fare of IS per ticket is
charged on the new t~wenty-hour trains
between New York and Chicago. There
seems to be a question as to whether
rebates should be paid passengers
when the trains are late. If they are
to be paid, many of the passengers
would have something coming to them
at the end of their journey during the
severe winter time when most all
trains are delayed.
The Carlsbad Argus says: 1t is
learned on positive authority that c.
II MI. T. - sA,-,-4al lgaalAI- a-
indirectly, In financing the proposed
branch railway from Roswell to Tor
rance. connecting the Pecos Valley
with the FL Paso q Rock Island. This
news is to I've regretted, both for Ros-
wells and the entire valleys sake, for
had MI. Eddy taken the matter in
hand it would have been pushed 10 a
speedy and successful termination.
The Rock Island has formulated
plans to enter st. Paul and Minneap-
oils and actively compete for the
traffic between the twin cities and Chi
cago. The absorption of the Burling-
ton, Cedar Rapids & Northern will be
Rock Island had that object in view.
The st. Paul extension OF the Burling-
ton, cedar Rapids d Northern will be
completed in a few weeks, and in ad-
vance of the Rock Island s entrance
into ST. Paul and Minneapolis over its
tracks it will put its agents into
the field to secure a larger share of
the business than it has been getting
heretofore.
Conductor in LUck.-The copper dis
covery just east OF Needles, by
Conductor G.. L. Lindsay and others is
showing up well, and bids fair to be-
come a valuable property. lhe
try surrounding these claims is rich in
copper. and Mr., Lindsay and his part
ner have undoubtedly struck a fine dc.
post Of the red metal.
Will be a Great Feat.-Information
is received from an authentic source
that tho Iuildipg IF tho Santa Ea short