Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-03-03
Railroad Topics

The new foreman of the car depart
ment of the shops is George Wilson.
who succeeds II. A.. Simms, recently
transferred to Winslow.
Jose G. Chaves. the live stock claim
adjuster for the Santa Fe on this divis-
ion, is in the city today, coming in
from Los Lunas this morning.
The base ball boys of the local shops
have received their new uniforms and
they are nobby. The boys are now
ready to cross bats with any team in
New Mexico.
The Santa Fee Pacific engineer, j. II.
Ballou. and wife, have taken posses
sion of their new home. No. 500 West
Coal avenue, which they recently pur-
chased from DR.. yesterday.
Now that the steel for the Santa Fo
Central has been ordered, construction
will be pushed with might and main
and by the middle of next September
the first train of the Santa Fe Central
will pull into santa Fe from Torrance.
Lincoln county.
j. NJ. Horn was at the capital city
from the Santa Fe Central station on
the Arroy Hondo Saturday. He reports
that an ample and fine supply of water
has been struck at the depth of 1874
feet in the well that has been bored
a the warehouses at the station.
Engineer John Becker, who has
been off the Santa Fe branch run for
months, has again reported for duty.
Engineer AL. Lane, who has been run
ming on the branch during Engineer
Beckler's absence. returned to the
main line and will run between this
city and Las Vegas.
The Topeka State Journal says that
j. w. Robins, trainmaster of the east
ern division of the Santa Fe, has been
appointed superintendent of the north
ern division of the Gulf, Colorado &
Santa Fe. the Galveston line of the
Santa Fe proper. Mr.. Robins has many
friends in this city who are pleased to
hear of his promotion.
j. E. Saint, secretary of the Santa
Fee Central Railway company, who was
at Santa Fe, returns to the city with
plenty of good news. He says the
Santa Fe Central will surely be built
the coming year, n that the Albu-
querque Eastern will follow close in it's
tracks. He expects the Pennsylvania
party here Thursday morning.
The Bland Herald says: A petition,
signed by almost every man in Bland,
was this week SEN to Superintendent
Fox of the Santa Fe road, asking that
the hotel building at Thornton be left
standing. 1t was the intention of the
Santa Fe company to tear away the
building and 10 it to Rincon, where
the material would be used in the con-
struction of a hotel at that place. What
action will now be taken in the matter
remains to he seen, but it is hoped that
the company will forego its intention
and let that building stand, a conven
fence to the travelling public.
General Francis j. Torrance, Sena-
tor w. II. Andrews. Senator Arthur
Kennedy, Lieutenant Governor Walter
Lyon and son, L. Lyon, r. l.. McCance.
of Pittsburg; Hon. w. S. Hopewell,
Chief Engineer A. G. Kennedy left
Santa Fe today with teams over the
proposed line of the Santa Fe Central
railway. At Torrance, in Lincoln coun
ty, they will take a Rock Island train
for FL Paso. from where they will come
to Albuquerque, arriving here probably
on Wednesday or Thursday. From this
city the party will go to Santa Fe
again to spend several days, before the
Pittsburg visitors will leave for their
Pennsylvania home.
The project of a fine modern depot
at Santa Fe is taking more definite
shape, says the New Mexican. 1t is un-
derstood that the Santa Fe COM
pany is willing to give the ground for
the depot. and that the Santa Fee Cen
trail and Denver & Rio Grande may
put up the money for the building. In
that case. the union depot would be To-
Gated neal where the present SAINT Fe
railway depot is situated, unless the
people of Santa Fe should present the
railroad companies with a more suita-
BILE piece of land, in which case the
Santa Fe Railway company will prob
ably contribute one-third of the amount
needed for a union depot building.