Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-08-01
Railroad Topics


age to the engine was not very great
and can soon be fixed up. II is i'm
possible to get the exact amount of
the damage which the wreck caused,
but conservative railroad men place
the loss to the company at not less
than 100000.
To Build Ice Factory.-The Santa Fe
has decided to build an ice factory at
Argentine, Kan, to take the place of
the ice house that burned down there
some time ago. The new plant will
cost $50, 900 and will have a capacity
of seventy-ive tons per day. II is also
claimed that a new 10000 depot will
be built at Argentine.
Paul Morton Presioent.-Paul Nor
ton is to be elected president of the
Kansas City Southern. He will repre-
sent the Hartman interests. Mr.. Nor
ton is vice president of the Santa Fe,
a son of the late ]. Sterling Morton, of
Nebraska. and one of the best known
railroad men In the United States. 1t
is said that he will retain his connec
ton with the Santa Fee and that his
position with the Kansas City South
/ tIu Il , SluIDly W hCCp III tOuCn Will tUt
road, being the personal representa-
tive Of Hartman.
Purdue Remembe red.-R. P. c. San
derson, superintendent of motive
power, acting with the approval of
J. NJ. Barr, Vice president of the Sea
board Air Line railway, has presented
to Purdue university a full sized mod
ell, accurate in all of its details, Of an
early locomotive. The model repre-
sents the locomotive Tornado" which
was the second owned by the parent
roads now forming the Seaboard Air
Line system. Inc locomotive was
purchased in England and placed in
service in March, 1910. 1t has a single
pair of drivers, a four-wheeled truck,
and a cylindrical fire box. A tender
carried on four wheels is attached.
Speedy Freight Run.-Conductor T.
K. Sawyer and Engineer John Tread
way concluded the other day that
they would show the boys how to han
die green fruit, say the Newton Re-
publican. They brought thirty cars
which weighed LILO tons from Dodge
City to Newton in six hours fiat and
sustained one hour and ten minutes
delay on the road for connections,
which would make their running time
five hours and fifty minutes. This run
was also made over the main line,
which is fourteen miles longer than
the route over the branch where most
of the late fast run have been made.
Considering the size of the train and
the delays it was a most excellent run
and ranks up among the best.
Can't Get the Santa Fe.-In connec-
ton with the report that the Pennsyl-
vania and the Rock Island are strug-
Cling for the control of the Santa Fe,
a well posted railroad man of Denver
had this to say:
Il don't doubt that the dispatch re-
fers to efforts of II of these systems
to secure such a foothold with the
Santa Fe that it will be assured
against the Pacific and Gould combi-
nations, but control of the Santa Fe
is practically an impossibility. There
are So, 1000 stockholders in the Santa
Fe, and TO secure control of the road
would mean the expenditure of many
millions of dollars--a sum that ever
the Pennsylvania might well hesitate
over"
Big Corn Stories.-Railroad men are
coming in loaded down with big corn
stories, says the Topeka state Journal.
mus far they have launched out by ex
pressing it in general terms, but here
/ after the immensely of the probable
5 crop will be expressed in a more def
mite manner. An engineer who runs
east of here says that about two miles
? west of Carrolton, Mo, a farmer broke
up an old pasture last fail and planted
it to corn this spring. Now the stalks
stand-he is ready to swear-ten feet
above the fence posts, and in the eve
) ming when it is quiet the peculiar odol
I arising from the pollen of the plant is
so thick in the air that it is almost
4 %sickening. Another engine driver say:
I that the stories about the damage
which the recent overflow of the Kav
a river wrought has been much exagger
| ated. He has not been able to see more
than twenty or thirty acres of corn al
p together between Topeka and Kansa!
$ City that was washed away by thu
q high water.
4 Physician and Druggists.
Ford & Sturgeon, a prominent drut
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