Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1902-12-20

IL Ii stated tnot the fennsylVania
has borrowed more than one hundred
engines to help out In the rush bust.
ness.
Engineer Calvert has accepted po-
the throttle between Las Vegas and /,
Albuquerque.
George Sells and A. +. Davis have
successfully passed both the mechani-
cal and time card examinations, and
are now engineers.
s. F. Dutton. tor several years q d.
vision superintendent OF the Harvey
system Of eating houses, has resigned
from It's employ and will soon engage
In the hotel business at Fort Worth.
Jack Risque. at one time a resident
OF Albuquerque and popular In society
circles, 10 now assistant to Engineer
of Tests, Wickersham, with headquart-
ers at San Bernardino.
The Denver & Rio Grande Railway
company has presented the Alamosa.
Colo, public library 400 volumes of the
latest literature, comprising selected
fiction, history, biography and refer
ence works.
r. Meredith Jones, who had been to
the Panhandle OF Texas. and to Dodge
City. Newton and other places in Kan
sas, where he has some surveying par.
ties, was here yesterday on his way to
the Sarta Fe cut of below this city.
The Santa Fe company had about
/ Inn ON al In tho Nnuau
yards all Saturday night They we're
engaged in shove!ing snow away from
the switches to keep the latter from
freezing and delaying traffic.
Jacob Fisher. OF Fort Bavard, has
been granted pension Of $50 per
month on account OF the war with
Spain.
porters on the passenger trains run
ming through here quit work of their
own accord in the last dag or two.
When the porter Of No. last evening
failed to show up for duty, Justin Con-
saul, brakeman, was requested to
take the run for that trip. and did so.
The Santa Fe has just completed the
construction of a spur track of about
eight miles to the Hebron coal mines
In New Mexico. For the present II Is
probable that the output OF these
mines viii be largely consumed by the
railroad fuel department, hut as de.
velopment progresses the product will
doubtless he put on the market A
fine quality of coal Is produced, and
these mines will form an important
scource for fuel supply for the south
west.
Mrs. s. A. Smith, Of Las Vegas.
daughter of a. +. Eames, the Santa Fe
engineer who was injured by falling
from his engine at Santa Fe, accom-
panied by her children, will spend the
holidays at the territorial capital with
her father and sister. Miss Hattie
Games. Mr.. Eames was seriously in
jured and will not be able to be about
until after New Years,
superintendent s. f. Busser, Of the
Santa Fe reading rooms, and wife,
and Judge Madison and wife, left last
night for Winslow where Judge Mad
ison will deliver an address to the rail
road people of that place. The Judge
is good talker and his lectures are
always appreciated.
The laying Of steel on the Dawson
branch Of the Rock Island is progress
ing very rapidly. Steel has now been
laid UP as far as hoy, sixty-nine miles
from Tucumcari. The line Is now
open for trainc as Iar as Cabeza. forty.
six miles from Tucumcari. The laying
of steel out of French, south. Is being
pushed as rapidly as possible. There
Is now about twenty more miles of
steel to lay until the two gangs meet.
It is thought that by Christmas, at the
latest. all this work will be finished
and the line open for trafiic. The
freight and passenger tariffs OF this
line are now In the press and as soon
as approved by the territory of New
Mexico, will be issued. The passenger
tarin will show a rate of cents per
mile.
The preliminary survey of the line
from Alamogordo to Deming by way
OF Las Cruces Is progressing rapidly.
6. G. Small. as locating engineer, has
been out for some time with q party
of thirty men surveying the new line
TO connect with the I'll Paso & North
eastern at Alamogordo and with the
Southern Pacific a: Deming. This line
when built will give the Rock Island
short cut to Deming and save sew
eral hours haul over the El Paso route
Vice President w. 8. Hopewell, As
sistant General Manager Harry Alex
ander and Chief Engineer Kennedy OF
, the Santa Fee Central Railway have
gone to Torrance to look over the
situation preparatory to the beginning
Of tracklayiDg.
Local No. 80. for the south. was held
several hours this morning on account
Of shortage of motive power.