Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-08-06


to Needles to enjoy the hot weather.
d.. r. Mcdonald has returned to
Chloride from a visit to the railroad
camps of the Santa Fe, Prescott &
Phoenix extension from Phoenix to
Bisbee.
j. A. Harlan, Superintendent of build
iDgs and bridges on the Rio Grande d.
vision of the Santa Fe, was in the city
yesterday inspecting the work being
done on the new freight depot.
Engineer Bonnie Coffin, who has
been spending his vacation with
friends in Kansas, returned to Needles
last week and was assigned to duty
on the switch engine at Selignlan.
Charles Hurd. son of A. A. Hurd, So
licitor for the Santa Fe in Kansas and
Nebraska, has accepted a position as
brakeman on the Santa Fe Pacific and
will run between this city and Gallup.
The railroad company is getting in
material for the contemplated i'm
provements in the yards at Kingman.
The new sidetracks will give the COM
pany what they have long needed at
that point.
The Needles Eye says: Engineer
Sheen, as nice a little man, and as
true a gentleman as the good Lord has
ever blessed this wicked world with,
has gone east to visit his friends in
Boston and other classic portions of
the old Bay state.
The Santa Fe road has Just received
forty new chair cars and coaches and
the delivery of 1875 locomotives recent.
ly bought is now being made. These
include nine ~mammoths, which will
pull the California limited and do
away with double headers.
Three hours will be clipped of the
time between Albuquerque and the
coast and one of the cars will be run
from Denver and attached to the train
at La Junta when the new California
limited service goes into effect on Oc-
tober l. The compartment cars have
eight drawing rooms each.
The Santa Fe railway uses about
1000 cubic feet of gas each week to
charge the reservoirs on it's coaches
and Pullman sleepers running to the
Pacific coast. The tank car Used to
bring the gas from Oakland to Point
Richmond holds $500 to 1000 cubic
feet-13 to IA atmospheres-and when
loaded the gas has a pressure of 0 1000.
The father and mother Of w. l..
Case, the fireman who was killed in the
great railroad wreck neal Franconia
last November, have brought suit
against the Santa Fe Pacific railroad
company for $25, 900 damages. Many
of the death losses resulting from the
wreck have been settled by the rail
road company, but there are several
yet to settle.
The Gallup Republican says: D. A.
Slope, the Santa Fe Pacific -superin-
tendent of bridges and buildings, spent
Thursday here looking over the
ground and selecting a site for the
railroad employees library building.
The plans have beer made for a build
ing to cost 5000. There will be a
room for pool M billiards. a bath
room, cigar stand and library. The
building will be put up at once on the
railroad ground just east of Cotton's
store.
The Topeka State Journal says:
Grading is about finished and track
laying will soon begin on the Santa Fe
cutoff from Newkirk to Paul's Valley.
The new line will open a rich country,
as it passes through the Usage nation
and the counties of Pawnee, Payne,
Lincoln and Pottawatomie, and the
towns of Chandler and Shawnee. The
distance saved is not great, but the
bad curves and steep hills of the main
line are avoided, and the new line
will receive the majority of the
through business.
C. o. Young, inspector of Santa Fe
fire department service. has returned
from a tour of the eastern and south
ern lines of the Santa Fe system. He
traversed the lines between Topeka
and Chicago, and from Topeka to Gal
weston, and in no place did he find the
fire service in such a high stage of
efficiency and so near perfection as it
is at the shops at Albuquerque. After
a few days rest Mr.. Young will go
west inc south and visit every station
of Importance on the Rio Grande divis-
ion and the Santa Fe coast lines.
The Kingman, Arizona, Miner says:
We understand that 4 cuTSory sur
vey of a route for a railroad from
neal Franconia to a point below the
Snowfall, or German American camp,
has been made and that the distance is
but thirty-ive miles. The road is to
be built on the old grade from the
main line of the Santa Fe to old Pow
ell, then north around the foothills to
the probable terminus on the mesa be-
low the mines. A townsite is to be
laid out and w~aterworks put in. Mills
for the reduction of ores will be in
stalled and a city, it is expected, will
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