Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-07-14
Railroad Topics

The Santa Fe section house at An
thony burned the other evening.
The construction train has been
working between Alamlllo and Socorro
the past week.
President w. H. Andrews. of the
Santa Fe Central railway, left Pitts
burg, Pa, Saturday, for New Mexico,
and will reach this city during the
week.
H. u. Nudge arrived at Santa Fe
from Denver to succeed S. G.. Bentley
as superintendent of telegraph of the
Santa Fe Central railway. MIR. Bent
ley left for Denver.
John Bell, Wells-Fargo express mes
senger on the Lamy branch, has been
promoted to the main line and will run
between La Junta and Lamy. He will
be succeeded on the branch by Ira
Sackett, of Albuquerque.
Ten car loads of curiosities for the
Harvey museum are now on their way
here. II has been decided to use the
kiosk. now used as a salesroom. for
the museum, and to move the sales
room to the building intended for a
museum.
G. d. Simpson, vice president of the.
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific road;
General Superintendent Grieg, of the
FL Paso & Northeastern, and Charles
B.. Eddy passed through here last
night. They had been at the Dawson
coal fields.
The st. Louis & San Francisco rail-
roa has purchased the Arkansas &
Choctaw railroad. Consideration, ST.
100000. This gives the Frisco ninety
five miles of newly constructed road in
the Red River district in the Indian
Territory.
The strike of the machinists of the
Gulf lines of the Santa Fe has so far
caused but little inconvenience to the
corporation. The trouble seems t be
confined to the shops at Cleburne, and
was caused by the failure of the COM
pany to reinstate Charles Hess, a COM
mitteeman, who was discharged for
some infraction of the rules.
Master Mechanic w. s. Grandy. of
the Newton, Kan, shops, fell from a
moving car and was slightly injured.
He was standing on the platform of
the car talking with the brakeman and
when he attempted to unload" missed
the handhold and fell to the ground.
One side of his face was quite badly
scratched from coming in contact with
tnt CiuutIS ludI lie was uOl DdulN III
jured is fortunate.
Engineers Frank Scottie and w. G.
Mearns, and Firemen Sam Livingston
and Henry Englebrecht. returned last
night from a two weeks fishing trip to
the Jemez mountains. They have a
good stock of fresh fish stories to tell
about the monstrous trout they cap
tured. They went overland and camp
ed out, doing their own cooking. A
good eupply of canned fish was pro-
vided before they left the city and they
didn't bring anything back but whis-
kers. The clip will amount to several
pounds.
The New Mexican of last Saturday,
says: Hon. l.. Bradford Prince return
ed this morning on a Denver & Rio
Grande freight train from his Rio Ar
riba county ranch. A temporary track
has been constructed around the spot
a few miles north of this city. where
an engine is in the ditch. A wrecking
train and a large force of men under
the supervision of Division Superin-
tendent Wettenberger are on the
ground and are hard at work to get the
engine out of the ditch INT repair the
washed away and injured portions of
the track.
Buying Rails for 1903-The quiet
placing orders for steel rails %aggregat-
ing, according to some estimates, near
ly 1,000, 900 tons for 1903 delivery. and
the presentation of inquiries for a
quarter million more tons, according
to accepted announcement, indicate
that steel rail makers will have a year
of phenomenal activity in 1903. 1t is
understood that $2S will be the price.
1t is understood that this activity in
placing orders is due to the apprehen-
sion among a good many builders that
the rail mills will be oversold very
largely before the current year is out.
Dawson Railway Annraisers Anpoinf.