Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-04-30
Railroad Topics

Hon. w. S. Hopewell left Santa Fe
for Kennedy on the Santa Fe Central
railway line, where grading operations
are to commence on Thursday.
/. p. Sanford, cashier OF the First
National bank at Alamogordo. has re-
signed to accept the position of auditor
of the Santa Fe Central railway.
Senator w. H. Andrews. president of
the Santa Fe Central Railway com.
pany, has returned to the capital city
from a trip to FL Paso and Albuquer-
Tue
Winslow had another small fire scare
the other night. The small oil house
standing east of the ice house was
burned, but the ice house got off with
a slight scorching.
Mrs. Pullman, widow of the inventor
of the Pullman car, was an east bound
passenger Sunday. She was accom-
panied by her aged mother and they
had been in California since January
2S.
The Sun says: Frank Harris, form
erly of the master mechanics office in
San Bernardino, but who now holds
down a desk in General Manager Wells
office, came up from Los Angeles on
last evenings overland to spend Sun
day with friends.
Colin s. Park, a Santa Fe engineer,
well known at San Bernardino as
Gal" Park and a brother of Engineer
Fred Park, died in Los Angeles from
the result of injuries received two
hours before at the Rivera bridge, To-
Gated near Santa Ana.
Miss Della Farley, of Ration, was
married to G.. Z. Smyer, of Kansas
City, Sunday, at her Ration home, and
the couple departed at once for Kan
a City, their future home. Mr.. Smyer
is one of the popular Santa Fe conduc-
tors, having a run from Kansas City to
Fort Madison.
The Winslow Mail says: After a
conference with superintendent l. l..
Hibbard, the street and alley commit
tee have made report to the council in
regard to the location of the new
freight depot, and it is thought the
new building will be erected west of
the old site and out of the street.
Sunday thirty-one saddle and run
ming horses of DR.. Seward Webb, of
the New York Central, passed through
for New York. The stock was in
charge of Harry Hopkins and five as
sistants. They occupied two N. Y. c.
H. r. railroad cars, n were going
east after wintering in Santa Barbara.
They were beauties.
President Hartman, of the Southern
Pacific, who has been in the west for
several days, has asked the head ofic-
ials of the Union Pacific to confer with
him in San Francisco May l on mat
tiers concerning the two roads. The
exact nature of the conference is not
given out. but it is understood that it
has to do with the Salt Lake-Los An
geles cutoff and other western i'm
provements.
p. B. McAtee, local agent of the Den
yer & Rio Grande. accompanied by j.
w. Furlong, travelling freight agent of
the Missouri Pacific railway, and R. F.
Ziegenfelter, of Denver. was a visitor
to Aztec and Pennington and other
county points this week. The gentle
men expressed pleasure at the splen-
did showing the county is making and
predict a great future for it.-Aztec
Index.
The Flagstaff Sun says: p. M. Cav
in, who for the past year has been en-
gagged in railroad building in Mexico,
returned. For several months past
Mr.. Gavin has beer in charge of the
track laying OF the line between Naco.
Ariz., and Cananea, Mexico. Mr..
Gavin says there are many Arizonians
in Mexico, and that northern Mexico
and southern Arizona are enjoying an
era of prosperity.
Word comes from Ash Fork that the
Santa Fe Railroad company is prepar.
inc m put in a hip Watar cfora 90 dam
in Johnson canyon, four miles from
Ash Fork. The construction material
has commenced to arrive, and about
300 men will be emnloYed in the work