Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-03-28

yesterday.
Heavier steel is being put down for
the Santa Fe through the town of Fort
Madison, Iowa.
G. w. Smith. the master mechanic
stationed at San Bernardino. is in the
city on business.
superintendent Fox has returned to
Las Vegas from his trip south. on a
bridge inspection tour.
Elmer Espelin, formerly of this city,
has returned to his work in the Topeka
shops after a serious illness.
Alex Lyons, from Gainesville. Texas.
is the name of a new employee at the
local railway blacksmith shop.
Engine 2S2 was given a trial run to
Isleta yesterday, with Engineer Mearns
and Fireman Marshall in the cab.
Big consignments of new furniture
arrived yesterday for the Alvarado
hotel. and S. f. Klootz is busy check
ing up.
Engine 331. heretofore in charge of
Engineer Reed and Fireman Peeler
was brought to the shops yesterday
for a general o~verhauling.
G. w. C~losson, fuel and ice contrac-
tor, is coming west on a business trip
which will consume a weeks time. He
will come as far as Albuquerque.
Monday morning the ground was
broken for a new eating house at Rim
con on the Santa Fe, to take the place
of the one which was burned recently.
Engineer Ed Clark has moved his
family from Winslow to Gallup and is
occupying one of the railroad cottages
on railroad avenue, of the latter town.
The Brooklyn Eagle estimates that
more than $500, 000, 900 is to be ex.
pended on the railroads of the United
States during the coming summer
alone.
The appropriations made by the San
ia Fe railway company for this year in
clude s1S3 $50 for road bed ballasting
in New Mexico and Colorado and $685.
900 for a new hotel and depot at Ra-
ton.
Conductor f. w. Barry of the branch
to Santa Fe. who has been i'll the past
two weeks with erysipelas is on the
road to Conductor John F.
Mulhearn, of Las Vegas, is taking his
place at present.
More through passengers were or
the north bound train No. 2 this morn
ing than could be accommodated at the
Harvey house at n sitting. A few
such occasions will tend to hurry the
completion of the new hotel.
A number of engineers and firemen
on the first division of the Santa Fe
Pacific have been laid off this week on
ccoun of the introduction of larger
engines, nine of which will do the work
of fourteen of the smaller ones.
Agent Myers. of the Santa Fe rail-
way, received notice that the Santa
Fe Railway company will open a sta
ton on April 10 at the crossing of the
Dawson railway over the Santa Fe
neal Dover, ColfaX county. The name
of the station will be french.
The earnings of the Denver & Rio
Grande for the second week in March
show a slight gain. They are as fol
lows: Second week in March, 1902,
$1S4,000; 1901, $1S2 900; increase, 81
600. July ! to March IA, 1902, $685.
200; 1901, $7,916, 700; increase, $685.
500.
Engineer a. B. Clark and wife, of
Deming. will leave for their home IN
San Marcial on or about the first of
the month. Mr.. Clark is the well known
dnQ popular tuSluttl vi lnC ALI fS
switch engine at Deming and he and
his estimable wife have many friends
in that town.
1t is getting about time for the an
nual spring cattle rush to spring itself
on the railroads, though so lar there
has been but little hint that it was
coming. Business in the freight trafic
department has been duller than usual
during the last two months, but 1t is
thought within a short time it will
open up.
Grading has been begun on the line
near Carrolton, Mo-, which will con-
meet the Santa Fe with the Wabash.
The two roads have contaminated a
deal whereby they are to use the par
allel tracks of one another, thus FUR
nishing them a double track. The dis
lance is about thirty miles, extending
from Carrolton to Camden.
The route surveyed by the Arkansas
Valley & Western Railroad company Is
being resurveyed by the Frisco, a fact
that s~ubstantiates h fact that it has
been absorbed by the latter company
The proposed line runs from Sepulpa
|. r., to Enid, Okla, a distance of 125
miles. and will become a part of The
system recently purchased by the
Frisco.
Six of the patent Cafferty tie-plates
the invention of T. S. CaffeTty, road
master on the eastern division, have
been turned out by the Topeka shops
and will he distributed at points over
the system, where they "a be given
a fair test. 1t is the plan to have their
efficiency tried by placing them under
rails where the traffic and rolling stock
are heaviest.
On account of meeting of Knights
Templar in FL Paso tickets will be
sold to Mexico and return very cheap
Return limit, thirty days. Tickets
or sale April Is to 30 inclusive. Clean
Pullmans through FL PasO 10 Mexico
The chance of your Ire time TO see
Mexico at this rate. Special rates tc
other points. Call at city Office or ad
dress. w. 5. Mead, FL Paso.
- Al $50 II