Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-03-17

and buildings of the western grand di-
vision of the Santa Fe is B f Mills.
s. w. Marshall, a well known fire.
man, has gone to Chicago on a sixty
days visit with relatives and friends.
Steel is now being laid on the extern
sion of the Arizona & New Mexico rail
road from Lordsburg toward Hachita.
The town of Deming has gained SO
per cent in population in four years,
and is getting considerable railway
traffic.
The new Santa Fe machine shop at
Topeka. now under construction, will
be the largest in the west when COM
pleted.
1t is reported that a surveying corps
is at work in Grant county on a pro-
jected line to run through Gallup on to
Durango, Colo.
Inc general manager of the culinary
department of Fred Harvey's railway
hotels, V. Vizetti, was here today look
ing over the new hotel.
Work on the Tombstone branch of
the Ell Paso & Southwestern railroad,
between Fairbank and College Peak,
is expected to begin very shortly.
SudIltS JOuuSOu pdSSCu uiOuSn JlS
city for FL Paso. He is the general
western agent of the New York. Chi
cago G. st. Louis railroad. with head
quarters at Denver.
J. b. Horner, a brother of ex-Alder-
man |. B. Horner, of this city, passed
through the city on his was to Phoenix.
He is the general manager of the
Nickel Plate railroad, and en- route
east will stop v e a few days here.
Already seven special trains to Cali
fornia over the Santa Fe have been
engaged by the club women of the
United States who are planning to at
tend the biennial of the club women
at Los Angeles on nlay l.
A report from Oklahoma states that
the town of Sepulpa is to be for the
present the eastern terminus of the
Arkansas Valley & Western railroad.
The road is to be built between Enid
and the main line of the Frisco.
Between Deming and Douglass five
telegraph Offices are in operation, viz:
Deming, Deming Junction, Core Creek
and Slaughter. An Office will shortly
be opened at Hachita, the junction
with the Arizona and New Mexico.
The Ell Paso Herald says: "Chas.
F. Whittlesey, the chief architect of
the Santa Fe system, who has recently
opened offices in this city, was here
to consult relative to the erection of
some buildings west of Albuquerque"
Senator Burton has introduced a bill
in the senate authorizing the construc-
ton by the Central Arizona Railway
company of a line through the San
Francisco river forest reserve. from
Flagstaff southeast to Jerome and
Globe.
A. s. Weatherbee, superintendent of
the Mexican Development company,
purchased the large Navajo blanket at
the local Harvey eating house. paying
$275 for it. Mr.. Weatherbee was here
last Saturday, leaving that evening for
City of Mexico.
The Santa Fe will soon commence
construction work on a line from the
southern border of Kansas to Paul's
Valley, Indian Territory, about 200
miles. This e road will tap the fer
tile country lying east of the Santa Fe
main line to Texas.
Kansas City's railroads evidently ap-
preciate the coming greatness of the
western metropolis. 1t is now expected
that they will build a union station
superior to the union station in st.
Louis, to be built at a cost of 1000, 900.
This would cost each of the ten roads
$400, 900.
Another contemplated extension Of
the Santa Fe Pacific is from Thoreau,
about one hundred miles west of AL
buquerque, to Durango, Colo. This pro-
posed route is exactly a part of the
proposed route of the Clifton & Du-
range road and would pass through a
virgin coal, timber and agricultural
country.
The Southern Pacific company has
fled articles of incorporation by which
it consolidates all its property In Cali
fornia, Arizona and New Mexico, I'M
der one company, which will be known
as the Southern Pacific Railway com
pany. Its capital stock is fixed at
S155.455, 900, making it n of the larg
est companies in the United States.
The Topeka State Journal says:
Wednesday the new engine hoist
which the Santa Fe is to put in service
at Albuquerque shops. but which has
been held here for several days in or
der that it might be put together. was
being loaded for shipment to that
place. III was by super
tendent of Motive Power Henderson
and will be an important part of the
new apparatus there.
One of the remarkable things about
the recent terrible wreck on the Gal
weston, Harrisburg & San Antonio road
in Texas is the way in which the
claims department of the road is set
Ting up the losses of the company. I'm.
mense sums of money are being paid
to the injured passengers. and every
care is being given to them. Immedi-
ately after the wreck, the road sent
four claims agents to the scene. and
commenced adjusting claims. About
$4,000 in cash has already been paid
out to passengers who were either in.
iured or lost relatives in the disaster.
The contractors have commenced
laying the ties and rails on the Daw'
son road west from Dover. the point
of connection of the road with the
Santa Fe. The switch was put in last
week and the real laying of the track