Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-08-20
Railroad Topics

A large consignment of ties has
been received at the Las Vegas pick
Ter.
There are seven or eight machinists
employed in the Las Vegas shops, who
average from s110 to s115 per month
in wages.
1t is announced that the Santa Fe
is preparing to establish its shops for
more than 1000 miles of road at Amar-
lilo. Texas.
T%hirty-four railroads reporting fot
the first week of August shows gross
earnings of s6.950, 767. a gain of $685.
165, or $4.S per cent.
r. B. Nudge, formerly the efficient
cashier at the Alvarado, has been ad
vanced a notch and now presides as
day clerk at the institution.
Conductor ]. B. Cunningham has
returned to duty from Coronado Beach,
Cal, where his wife will remain till
the latter part of September for her
health.
Present indications are that the Ell
Paso & Southwestern will be rnning
trains into Ell Paso over it's own rails
soon after the 18th of September, if
not by that date.
John Conley, night foreman of the
round house, and sister, Miss Laura,
expect to leave next Saturday for a
months outing at a number of the pop
ular Pacific coast resorts.
The Conto To 10, --+;aol uo.4
Merrillies at Silver City that it has
granted a rate of s135 on cattle from
Silver City to Chicago. This is a very
material reduction in the rate.
There is another movement of cattle
from Texas to Montana, there being
nearly 10000 head OF the way now.
Apparently there is no end to the cat.
tie movement in the Panhandle.
Geo. l.. Shock, recently a Santa Fe
engineer, left Las Vegas for Trinidad,
to accept a position on the Denver G.
Rio Grande. He will run an engine
between Trinidad and Pueblo. Colo.
There we're fourteen cars in the
Woodmen of the World excursion train
which the Santa Fe handled to Kansas
City Sunday. 1t was figured that be-
tween 500 and 600 went from Tope-
ka.
The Rio Grande nnounce that
nearly "a, 000, 900 will. be spent for new
rolling stock and motive power, and
for improvements not only in equip
ment, but in the physical condition of
the system.
Dad Clarke, who used to run an
engine out Of Emporia, Kas., has re-
turned lately to that city from a tour
of the Pecos valley in New Mexico.
He reports crop prospects as being ex-
cellent and business as heavy. The
Pecos Valley & Northeastern, a Santa
Fe property of recent date, during
certain seasons handles immense
stock traffic and in the near future the
general development Of the country is
going to insure a business that will
add to the dividends of the system.
The Topeka Journal says: Thomas
Wallace, a locomotive painter, mixed
a few red Indian colors with the usual
assortment which he distributes over
his c~ountenance, Saturday, and when
the opportunity presented itself came
more than half way to sing a war song.
Tom was pretty mad because some
body else claimed the honor of being
the first white boy born in the city of
Leavenworth, and he says that he feels
sure that the claim is unjust. His
mother always did tell him that he was
the first male child to arrive on the
scene of action there without previous
training and he believes she knows.
He was born in that city December 8,
1854, and three days before occurred
the birth of Cora Lyle, the first white
child. Wallace's father came to that
part of Kansas from Kentucky in 1853
and helped clear up the site of the
town. Mrs. Wallace is now residing
with her sol in Topeka.