Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-03-22

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Switch engine No. 217S is out of the
shops and is now ready for business.
Harry Snyder, who recently resigned
his position as a machinist in the local
shops, will go to Topeka in a few days.
The new clerk at the registration
desk at the local shops is Hiram Adair,
who recently arrived here from Chi
cagO.
The new Santa Fe machine shops at
Topeka, nov under construction. will
be the largest in the west when com.
pleted.
Mrs. Thomas Johnston, wife of a
local railway employee, has returned to
the city, after a pleasant visit to her
sister, Mrs. Fred Horn, of San Marcial.
twenty coaches are to be converted
into smokers according to an order re-
ceived recently at the Topeka shops.
The work probably will be begun Don
When coach 1854 has been converted
into business car 222, to be assigned to
Second Vice President Morton, it will
be equipped with apparatus for light
ing by electricity.
A construction gang of fifteen men
is replacing the old Western Union
telegraph poles with new ones between
Trinidad and Ration. j. p. Perrine has
charge of the worK.
Col. E. w. Dobson met DR.. Morrison,
of Los Angeles, at the depot yesterday.
The doctor is the chief surgeon of the
Santa Fe Pacific and expects to re-
main here for a few days.
The following are the stations in
New Mexico of the Ell Paso & South.
xpaetorn. To tlar, TDr,arltp Trnc uor
manos, Carazilillo, Victoria, Hachita,
Las Plazas, Antelope Pass.
The coal beavers of the Denver &
Rio Grande railroad at Chama, Rio
Arriba county, struck last week. New
men were brought from Durango and
took the places of the strikers.
President Ripley will grant half
freight rates on shade trees Shipped in
for planting in the parks of this city.
This was brought about through CORE
spondence between Mayor Marion and
President Ripley.
w. II. Phillips expects to leave in a
few days for Bakersfield, Cal, where
he will enter the service of the Santa
Fe company. He was timekeeper at
the local shops, which position is now
filled by c. A. Booth.
d. H. Thomas, Santa Fe tie inspec-
tor, will leave for southern Missouri
and eastern Arkansas, where he will
go oyer an order of 35, 900 oaken cross
ties. This material will be sent mostly
to the Chicago division for replacing
those that have rotted out.
John Player, the Santa Fe consulting
superintendent Of motive power, has
purchased a valuable farm of 1O7
acres, partially located within the linn
it's of the town of Waukesha, Wis. He
left Topeka for that place to look after
his intei ests the first part of the week.
Lumberton, Rio Arriba county, is to
have a new railroad, a narrow gauge,
thirty miles in length, connecting it
with Pagosa Springs. Colo. The open.
ing of an oil territory in Archuleta
county, Colorado, n the growth OF
Pagosa Springs is responsible for the
project.
There is a scarcity of engineers for
switch engines west of Albuquerque
and an opportunity has been given at
some of the division points in Kansas
for those who wish to go west to do so.
By such a transfer they forfeit all
rights in the o service on the Kan
sas part OF the system.
The Topeka State Journal says: w.
B. Ramsey, of the blacksmith depart
ment, is working over the fire again
after an absence of nearly two weeks,
the time being spent in Ration, N. NJ,
where he and his wife went to attend
the marriage of their son, Bert. The
younger Ramsey is a switchman for
the company at that place.
II. A. Parker, first vice president of
the Chicago, Rock Island K Pacific
Railway company, writes to the Manu-
facturers' Record that the Chicago,
Rock Island & Texas company is max
ing surveys and expects to extend its
line from Jacksboro, Texas. to Graham
during he spring and summer.
All that was left intact of the big
Rhode Island locomotive 1872, which
was one of the w in the frightful
head-end collision at Franconia, Ariz.
last fall was the boiler, which reached
Topeka on a fiat car some weeks ago
Preparations are now being made fol-
bringing it into those shops and in
short time Mitchell's gang will begin
the job of rebuilding it. When finished
it will be practically a new engine.
Fifty locomotives annually is the
record which the new shop plant OF
the Santa Fe in Topeka is expected to
make dIreI IL is ldlIly SldIlSu. a. N
Davis, who assumes the general fore
manship on April /, is arranging fol
the installation of new machinery as
well as the improvement of that al
ready in service and is planning hat
the job of moving into the new build
ing will be started by September 1. Nc
time will be lost by the men while the
transfer from the old to the new build
ings is being made.-State Journal.
The Las Vegas Record says: Con
ductor A. Forkner left for California to
visit his wife for a few weeks and at
tend to business affairs on the Pacific
coast. Mrs. FOrkner went to Los An
geles a few months ago and her health
has greatly improved. MIR. Forkner has
been connected with the Santa Fe rail
wav for fifteen years and his fidelity
TO the interests of the company has
won for him the esteem, as well as the
approhatlon. of his superior officers,
AS a citizen he is a genial, courteous
hoo, adnaipal1n traits nj