Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1902-01-25

noy MN IN ms WORK. This class of
motive power appears to be giving eX.
collent satisfaction as regards speed
and power. but 1t Is probable IL will
not reach IT'S limit until heavier track
is provided.
lr the noighhorhood Of 25 900 tons
Of ice have been cut from the Santa
Fe fields in the Hot SPRINGS canon az
Las Vegas, ~ NJ, and now work has
been begun on the second crop. The
quality Is excellent being pure and I'm
thickness varying from nine to sixteen
inches. From that place it Is being
shipped to La Junta. Albuquerque and
all the main division points on that
part of The Santa Fe system.
President u. II. Nichols. of the Kan
sas Southwestern. announces the fol
lowing appointments: f.. H. Kings
bury, secretary and auditor; w y. VII.
cox, treasurer; headquarters, Arkan-
sas city. Kan. Freight and passenger
traffic matters will he handled in the
auditors office, and all correspondence
relating to the same should be All
dressed TO the auditor at Arkansas
city. The road Is owned Jointly by the
santa Fc and the Frisco.
Tho Kansas city, Mexico 4 Orient
Railway company has been granted nm
extension of SIX months time by the
state government OF Chihuahua in
which to comply with the terms OF the
contract as to the number OF kilome-
tors of road that shall Ice completed
and in operation i'm that state. II is
stated chat the first shipment OF rails
for this road will soon reach Chihua.
hua from Europe and that the work
OF construction will then he pushed for
ward rapidly.
Engine 1870 is in the shops t. have
valves set. 1Gi Tor cylinder packing
.9i for steam pipe repairs. Engine $50
went south this morning with 1850
tons. \ load for a doublc.header. I'm
glnocr John Cook and Fireman Mont
gomery were the crew. John A. Ross
accompanied her south She will go
to the Santa Pacific TO act as pdsher
on the mountain. when that class of
engines are put on the division. the
turn table and round house will have
to be enlarged.-Las Vegas Optic.
Executive officials OF western roads
have decided thai they will not cX-
change passes with trunk lines which
extend into central passenger associa-
tion territory This is due 20 the fact
that after the ahrosaton OF the anti
pass agreement In central passenger
association territory. the three trunk
lines sent western railroad officials
passes which were not good east of
Buffalo and Pttsburg and the western
men do not propose to exchange on
that basis The action is said to have
been taken with view TO breaking the
agreement in trunk line territory.
The stockholders of the san Pedro,
Los Angeles n Salt Lake railroad.
Senator Clark's new Salt l.ake-Los An
geles railroad. met at Salt Lake City
and elected directors for the coming
year. The directors will meet at Los
Angeles February 10. and elect OIL
GERS. Only two changes were made
the names OF +. X. Rule and Ross W.
Smith, of Los Angeles, being suisti-
tuted for those of George b. Leighton.
of st. Louis. and c. W. Clark Nica
President Ross Clark of the company.
stated that several thousand tons of
steel rails would he received here with
in a few weeks. AS soon as the route
out of Salt Lake is decided upon. con
struction work OF this end viii be be
gun. probably early in the summer.
A San Franciso special says: w. A.
Bissell assistant traffic manager of the
Atchisoh, Topeka a. Santa Fe. will
leave for the east Wednesday To con
fer with President Ripley and Vice
President Morton about ARRANGEMENTS
for the inauguration of the company 8
new steamship service to and from
this port and the orient. The Santa
res contract with the California &
Orient Steamship company will expire
within few days. and with the aboli-
ton of this traffic arrangement the
Santa Pc will have the steamers Pa
cific Mail, the Occidental and Oriental
and the Togo Kisen kaisha for ocean
connection, arrangements to this end
having been perfected several weeks
ago. Further arrangements will be
settled at the approaching conference
in Chicago.