Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1902-08-16
Railroad Topics

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Of the Santa Fee company during the
past year President Ripley's plans for
improving different parts of the sys-
TEN had met the approval OF the d.
rectors. These plans include the re.
building Of 176 miles OF track In Call.
sornia, Arizona and New Mexico. The
Santa Fe coast lines will be torn up
and the ffty-fvc pound rails replaced
by eighty.five pound steel. This will
include the main tracks from San
Francisco to Albuquerque and from
Los Angeles to Barstow.
All stationery of the former Santa
Fe Pacific is now marked A.. T. & 8. +.
Cade Selvy. the special ofilcer Of the
Santa Fe Pacific, is In the city today
on Official business.
| w. II. Matson. Jr., western travelling
passenger agent, passed through the
city last night bound for the coast
The new Rock Island eating house
at Tucumcari was opened for business
last week, with Miss Myra McDermott
as manager.
The demand for steel rails is so
great in this country that railroad
companies find It difficult to get their
orders filled.
e. ID. Weymouth. who has been fore.
man Of the car inspecting force at
I.ordsburg for some time has resigned
and left for Tucson.
Freight business on the Santa Fe
Pacific Is picking up. A large number
Of extra men have been put on the
board the last few days.
o. A. Gould, OF Andrews, and LYMAN
Lowitzki have arrived at the territorial
capital from Lake Valley with car of
horses for the Santa Fe Central.
J. Arthur Courtney, night tickle.
agent at the local depot, is working Q
double shift these days, while G. b.
Dolan is laying of on account of sick.
ness.
DR.. J. p. Raster, chief surgeon for
the Santa Fe, who has been transact.
ing professional business in the city
the past few days. has returned to To.
peka.
Albert Jacques, son of Station Agent
jacques, formerly In the employ OF the
Sana Fee at Las Vegas. has accepted
u clerical position at the local freight
Offices.
Two carloads OF rails and one of
fishplates passed through Nogales to
Gueymas few days ago over the South
ern Pacific consigned to the Topolo-
bampo railroad.
Lew Ryan, the FL Paso-Rock Island
brakeman who was badly injured last
June by falling from a water car at
Dog Canyon. has departed for his
home in Illinois.
Work has been resumed on the rail-
road shops at Alamogordo and good
machinists are being put to work as
fast as they show up. The force has
been largely increased this week.
Contracts will soon be let for build
ing the extension Of the Alamogordo &
Sacramento Mountein railroad to the
head OF Russian canyon. Several con
tractors have been looking over the
ground during the past week.
G. NJ. Perlewitz, the new day ticket
| agent at the local depot. came up from
Deming yesterday morning. q. b. Do
Ian. who formerly filed the position.
has been promoted to station agent
and will be located at Rincon.
The passenger and freight business
OF the Santa FEE Office of the Atchison.
Topeka 4 Santa Fe railway, for the
month OF July was very gratifying and
somewhat In excess of the business Of
that Office for the same month In 1901.
The Southern Pacific pay car reach
ed Lordsburg last Sunday morning and
the paymaster held 1t until after the
services In the various churches had
closed so that the many man who were
at church had chance to visit the
car.
Work on the Tombstone branch OF
the I'll Paso and Southwestern has
been started In earnest. Some so men
are now employed on the grade and
several cars of scrapers, teams etc.
and 10000 rails were unloaded at Fair.
bank the other day.
new ticket agent was installed in
I'll Paso last week, and 1t took three
men to check out the old man and
Put the new man in. Il. w. Clapp
was sent down from Lordsburg as one
OF the three men. to represent the ac-
counting department OF the Southern
Pacific road.
The Needles Eye says: The boiler
maker shops present an old time ap-
pearance this week. The old employees
are all back at work, and additional
men are being hired every day. II Is
estimated that within a month from
now there will be as many men at
work as can find standing room.
Mrs. J. l.. Davis. librarian at the
Needles railway reading room, Is en-