Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-07-24
Railroad Topics

A. e. Powell. of this city. route agent
of the Wells-Fargo EXPRESS company.
is In Santa Fe checking up the local
Office.
JACK Lehan, a machinist in the Las
vegas shops, has resigned his position
at the bench and lathe and will go up
to La Junta, Colo.
John Lees, a boilermaker at the
Las Vegas shops who accidentally ran
a hle into his knee cap, is able to hob
Die around on crutches with difficult
ty.
Conductor Dick Hays has resumed
the Las Vegas hot springs run for the
summer. Conductor w. F. Fugate is
again punching pastboard between Las
Vegas and La Junta.
The Santa Fe railway has granted
reduced rates from Tinidad south from
all points in New Mexico, for the on
secration of Bishop J. b. Pitaval at
Santa Fe on Friday.
Jack Myrick, of the Gallup shop,
who was so severely hurt last week, is
able to be about, though he still COM
plains of severe pains shooting
through his shoulders.
Charles Vidal bought the entire lot
of unclaimed packages at the Wells
Fargo auction at Gallup for $136. The
sale was conducted by the travelling
agent, Mr.. Summers.
Fifteen copper and gold claims in
the Zuni mountains belonging to Santa
Fe Pacific employees, have been bonded
for S125 900 for three months. A for
felt has been put up.
The railway company is placing in
the machine shops at Alamogordo an
other seventy-five horse power boiler,
this will give additional and more sat
isfactory power for running the large
number of machines in this plant.
A corps of surveyors of the Colo
RADIO & Gulf Durango & Clifton rail-
road are at work on Blue river, about
forty miles north of Clifton. Coking
coal has been found on the line be-
tween Fort Defiance and the San Juan
river.
An eastern railroad company has
just been equipped with ten new sleep
ing cars designed and furnished for
the special accommodation Of m
The cars are the longest in the SER
vice, measuring seventy-five feet six
inches.
Mrs. G.. p. Tillson, who had been at
Las Vegas several days visiting her
husband, who is at the Santa Fe hos
pital, returned to her home in Topeka
with her son. She will dispose of
their property there and return to Las
Vegas, where they will live in future.
j. Stanley Brown, a son in law and
secretary Of the late President Garfield,
has been appointed assistant to Presi-
dent Baldwin, of the Long Island rail-
road. For a number of years MIR. Brown
was assistant secretary of the Union
Pacific railway and secretary to E. II.
Hartman, chairman Of the Union Pa
cifc board of directors.
j. X. Hartline, working in the Gallup
shops of the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad
company, met with a painful accident
the other morning. While grinding
some toels with which he was working
his left hand was carried under the
grindstone and the fingers thereof
were badly lacerated, the third finger
being nearly severed from the hand.
He is about, but it will be several
weeks before he will have the use Of
his hand.
The track and property used by the
Santa Fe railroaw from Chicago to
the Pacific coast are now owned and
controlled by one company. A cir
cular has been issued announcing the
purchase of the Santa Fe Pacific and
the San Francisco & San Joaquin Val
ley roads, which will hereafter be
operated as the coast line of the At
Gibson, Topeka & Santa Fe road. 1t
was stated in President Ripley's Of
fee that the change was one made for
the purpose of simplifying the man
agement and the bookkeeping. 1t was
asserted that the Santa Fe previously
owned all of the stock and bonds OF
the two companies and that the pur-
chase meant simply the passing OF title
by deed.
Conductors Strike Gold.-J. w.
Slough, of Argentine, is in receipt OF
a letter from William Nash and j. f.
Foster, who are at Baker, Idaho, in the
luunder Mountain district, stating
that they had staked on three claims
which were producing gold quartz pay
ing s40O to $500 a ton. Nash and o
ter are Santa Fe conductors on a three
months leave of absence, who were
grubstaked by Slough and eleven other
Argentine business men. The claims
are forty miles from the Dewey mine
Strikers at Work.-The boilermaker
apprentices who went out on a strike
with the boilermakers at San Bernar-
dino went out to Banning, cal, where
they all have positions cutting apricots
for a dryer. They will make ~ per
day while aw aiting a settlement of the
strike. They are out of their jobs pure
Iy in sympathy with the boilermakeIs
and when the settlement is made they
will be taken care of by the strikers,
as they do not belong to any union.
Absent Minded Clerk but Deter
mined.-GTant Webster. a clerk in the
Office of General S~torekeeper Hilton,
who left last week for his summer va