Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-02-14
Railroad Topics

M. Zimmerman. claim agent for the
Santa Fe company, spent yesterday at
the Wright ranch, San Miguel county,
adjusting claims on damage lone in
the pastures by fire.
The Optic says: Judge Wooster
went to Wright's ranch. ten miles
north of the city, to adjust damages
done by a prairie fire started by flying
sparks from a locomotive.
Engineers Wolf and Hanson. who
went to San Marcial to run engines
out of that point. returned to Las
Vegas. They say there are forty-fve
engineers for nineteen engines there.
1t is rumored about that Fireman
Dallas Potter. who recently resigned
from the service OF the company, will
soon be reinstated. MIR. Potter lett LAS
Vegas for Ration in the interest of his
reinstatement.
The e line of the FL Paso & Rock
Island runs through the extreme east
end of San Miguel county, New Mex
leo, and an effort is being made by the
board of trade of Las Vegas to get the
, company to build a branch line of the
road to the county seat, Las Vegas.
John Alexander Dowie, of Chicago
and Zion" has been refused one-half
fare permits for ms workers by the
Central and Western Passenger asso-
Citations. The railroads think that Mr..
Dowie makes enough money out of
Zion to pay full fare.
w. II. Marshall has been appointed
general superintendent of the Lake
Shore road, to succeed A. H. Smith,
who was recently appointed general
superintendent of the New York Cen
trail lines. Mr.. Marshall has filed the
position of superintendent of motive
power of the Lake Shore for a number
of ears past.
President Ripley of the Santa Fe, ac-
companied by his family and a pleas
ant party, passed through Albuquerque
last night in a private car. They were
Joined at La Junta by Mrs. william
Curtis Bailey, who went up from Las
Vegas to meet them there. The party
is en- route to President Ripley's sum-
mer home at Santa Barbara.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail-
road company commenced at Guthrie
the grading for the extension of the
line from Coffeyville. Kan, to that city,
a distance of 200 miles. The line VIII
be extended from Guthrie to L. Reno,
Anadarko and into Texas; also via
Oklahoma City to Colgate, /. T., and
. via Usage nation to Muskogee, l. r.
The Topeka State Journal says:
The ice situation along this part of, the
Santa Fe can easily be guessed as re-
naming satisfactory to those who are
interested in the refrigerator PROPOSE
ton. At Argentine, La Junta and
Dodge City large quantities are being
stored for use during the heated term.
or wbaD COOLING haponnac a pacaSSorv
part of transportation.
According to reports the Santa Fe
contemplates making extensive i'm
p~rovements in the shop plant at San
Bernardino, Cal. 1t is claimed that
half a million dollars is about the sum
which will be put into the construction
of a new coach shop, upholstering de-
= partment, mill, paint shop, fire depart
ment quarters. brass foundry and ad-
|. ditions to the machine shop.
The Las Vegas, Mora & Taos rail
way, which was projected some years
ago by Las Vegas capitalists, is being
revived again and some of the promi-
nent business men of Las Vegas say
they are determined to push the con
Struction of the road. So sure are the
Las Vegas people of that road that
they have announced that the con-
struction of the same would soon com
mence.
From present indications Phoenix,
Arizona, will have three more rail-
roads within the course of a short
while. Work has begun on the FL
Paso, Phoenix & California Southern
= railway, which is to run from Ell Paso
to San Diego, and the Phoenix &
Eastern, which is to be constructed
from Phoenix to Benson. According
to the Tucson papers work was begun
last week on the American-Mexican
railway, which will III direct from
Florence and Phoenix, with an outlet
on the coast from Tucson south to Cal
aliases. reaching tide water direct via
the Sonora Limited.