Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1902-07-19
Railroad Topics

placing orders Is due to the apprehen.
sion among good many builders that
the rail mills will be oversold very
largely before the current year IL out.
Dawson Railway Appraisers Appoint.
ed--Judgo McF'ie, of the First judicial
district, has appointed Captain Il. q.
Austen and Hon. j. s. Duncan. OF Las
Vegas. and Hon w. c. Barnes, OF Dor.
sey, Colfax county. appraisers in the
case Of the Dawson Railway VS.. The
Red River Valley Company, to ap-
praise the value Of the right Of way Of
the railroad company over the Pablo
Mcntoya grant. Upon agreement Of
council the injunction proceedings
against the defendants were dismissed
as Manager O'Donel, OF the Red River
Valley company, promised not to inter.
fere with the construction Of the rail
way across the Montoya grant.
Roadbed improvements Santa
Fe railway is collecting q large force
Of graders and track men at Ration for
work on the reconstruction Of the
roadbed between Reton and La Junta.
Several carloads OF Mexican workmen
from El Paso have gone through here
this week to join the train load Of men
and teams sent north last week. Not
only is the roadbed beyond Ration to
be rebuilt. hut large part Of the road
through the mountains will be double
tracked. The Santa Fe is just begin
ming the work OF ballasting the road
bed 81 the New Mexico division from
Ration to Las Vegas. This work will be
Hnpa n nd hv try'
steel is TO be laid on the new roadhed
and the light steel from Las Vegas to
Galisteo is to be replaced with eighty
pound rails. The steel for this part OF
the track is already on the ground.
II Might Have Been Worse.-Train
No. is had narrow escape from what
might have been a serious wreck and
had II not been for the careful vigil
ance of Conductor I'D. kitching there
Is no telling what might have hap
pened. When mile or so south OF
Winfield, Kan, the odor of burning
wood was detected. Mr.. kitching made
an examination OF the train and dis
covered that "A journal was broken. Be
coming hot IL had ignited some OF the
woodwork II the car, although IL had
not as yet broken out in flames. The
journal was in such bad condition
that il was found necessary to take
the head erd OF the train into Win.
field return and get the had order car,
and make third trip for the rear end
of the train. This made "A delay OF
several hours. out the passengers and
all concerned are fortunate that il was
not more serious.
hopeweii Hopeful-Hon. w. :. Hope
well has returned to Santa Fe from
this city and he told the New Mexican
that the engineering corps which start
ed out from Albuquerque is not being
sent out either by the Santa Fe Cen
trail or the Albuquerque Eastern rail
ways. but that som" Of thu men inter
es;ed in this new project are also in
terested in the Santa Fe Central and
the Albuquerque Eastern. The corps
viii go in a northwesterly direction but
Mr. Hopcwell said significantly that
does not necessarily mean that IL is
bound for Durango. Mr Hopewell re-
ports that the 100 mule-teams he has
secured from a. II. Hilton. at San An
tonic, Socorro county. are on heir way
10 Kennedy and VIII be placed in camp
No. on top Of the mesa. After their
arrival work will be pushed across the
mesa toward santa Fe at rapid rate.
The pile driver has reached the arroyo
Hondo and August Reingardt, bridge
superintendent. stands in need OF
bridge carpenters.
Inc twentieth Century Limited
Keeling off iSl miles in 400 minutes.
the Twentieth Century Limited" on
the Lake Shore a. Michigan Southern
road on last Saturday smashed records
for fast running on that system and
verified assertions made by officials
that sixteen-hour schedule could, if
necessary. be maintained between chit
cago and New York.
The train, forty.five miles west of
Buffalo. was two hours and twenty
eight minutes behind it's schedule and
then II was that the engineers were
given clear track and ordered to
make their best time over the various
divisions
The train covered the 1874 miles be-