Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-04-09
RAILROAD Topics

Work will commence on the new san.
ia Fe coal chute at Ration this week.
The force in the Ration shops was
considerably reduced the past week.
VIM. Buckley, of Ration, has accept.
ed a position with the Santa Fe Gen.
trail.
Engineer Ayers has been reinstated
and is running north between Ration
and La Junta.
The Roswell Register thinks that the
prospects are good for the building of
the Santa Fe Central to Roswell.
Sam p. Glover, the well known and
popular express messenger on the Pc
cos VALLEY, was married in Roswell to
Miss Jessie Petty.
Mrs. David Patterson and children,
the family of the master mechanic,
have arrived in Ration. They will &C.
cupy the company's house vacated by
c.. M. Taylor.
Contracts have been let by Santa Fe
Headquarters at Los Angeles for the
construction and equipment of a new
plant for manufacturing Pintsch gas at
Point Richmond.
Several hundred Papago Indians,
who are working on the Ell Paso K
Southwestern construction, have quit
work and gone back to their reserva
ton. They don't like heap much work
The Rock Island road is making
great inroads in the Santa Fe passen-
ger business out of Mexico, and the of.
ficials of the latter road are trying
to find some way to combat the compe-
tition.
1t is claimed that the discovery Of
oil neal Gallup will mean that the
Santa lie will use that as a fuel as far
east as Albuquerque. Now all locomo.
tives west of Seligman, Ariz., are oil
burners.
c. H. Lister, representing the Bald.
win locomotive works, returned to Ala
mogordo and is attending to the deliv-
cry of the ten new compound engines
his company have made for the Ell
Paso-Rock Island route.
The entire Union Pacific system.
including the coast steamers which run
in connection herewith, shows a gain
of $433, 473 in gross earnings for the
month of February, compared with
the corresponding month in 1901.
H. H. Lane. superintendent of the
Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City rail-
road, has beer appointed general man.
ager and assistant to President Mer-
rill. Mr.. Lane will be succeeded by t.
w. Greer, who goes from the Santa Fe
road.
A railroad man in any capacity who
is not polite even to an inquisitive.
though ~gentlemanly reporter. trying
to earn his salt. seldom rises to a place
of responsibilities and emoluments
with the company employing him. fire.
~quently in a minor capacity.
Division Foreman r. d. Gibbons is
sick and not able to be on duty at the
shops. Carries Chambers, round house
foreman, is holding down Mr.. Gibbons
desk. and Lew Webb. the assistant
round house foreman, Is taking Mr.
: Chambers place.-Las Vegas Record.
Geo. b. Mcclellan. travelling freight
and passenger agent of the Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific. has been ap
pointed for the republic of Mexico
with the exception of that portion
chihuahua and north. reporting to G
b. Cleveland, general agent, City OF
Mexico.
F1fteen from tHe luiupei
camps of Canada passed through ii
Paso yesterday en- route to Chihuahua
They are to be employed in getting out
ties for the Orient road. A large mum
Der of Americans are already engag
ed by the contractors in Sonora and
Chihuahua.
The Las Vegas Record says: The
Mexican that was struck by train No
2 says that he will enter suit agains
the railroad company. He claims tina
his wagons were broken down on the
track at a private crossing, and that nc
tagged the train the necessary 20C
yards, but 1t IA not stop.
The change in the front end passen
ger brakemen from white men to color
ed, is generally taking place. The OBJ
ject of the Santa Fe is to have the
front end brakeman double up and ac'
as porter as well. The retired passen
ger brakemen will have an opportunity