Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-04-19

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American railroad methods are H.
~lustrated by the fact that while 40
tons is a load for an English freight
train. an average load on one of our
railroads last year was $40 tons. On
two British railroads Il costs from ASH
cents to S1.3S to move q ton of freight
one mile. while the cost on a leading
American road is 23As cents a mile.
Locomotive 1858, one of the new
prairie freight engines which the San
ia Fe is having built at the Baldwin
works in Philadelphia. went west on
Tuesday for service on the Santa Fe
Pacific. says the Topeka State Journal.
By way of giving it an lmpromptu test
as to tractIve test ii was sent up Paul
inc hill with 1000 tons behind it and
did the performance w..n ease.
X. H.. Ingram, executive secretary to
President julius Kruttschnitt, of the
Southern Pacific company, has been
appointed superintendent of the Los
Angeles division of the Southern Pa
citic to succeed John A. Muir. Mr..
Ingram was formerly in the executive
department of the Louisville & Nash
vile Railway company. E. l.. Swaine
will continue as assistant division SUI
BCi az iOo hh5CiOS.
On Tuesday the Pintsch gas plant
was blown in and the Santa Fe trains
supplied with gas. The plant has been
in. way of construction for several
months. Pipes are being laid to all the
depots in town, and before the week is
ended all the trains out of Ell Paso will
be supplied with Pintsch gas manu-
featured in Ell Paso. The plant has
cost in the neighborhood of $25 900,
and adds another industry to that city.
The Rock Island wires, now being
strung along the line of the Ell Paso-
Rock Island, will reach Ell Paso in a
very few days, and will be run into the
Western Union office Immediately.
This will necessitate an increase in
the force of operators, and will afford
additional facilities for east bound
business. A complete plant for a stor-
age battery is also expected at the
Western Union Office this week.-El
Paso News.
Cal Hayes, for many years previous
TO a few months ago foreman of a gang
in the tank room at Topeka. and since
then in the employ of the company at
Albuquerque, N. NJ, and at San Ber-
nardino, Cal, in the capacity Of a ma
1lh4Sts 10 INV III ShoA BE- Va nv houbo
house at National City. Cal. He took
the place last Friday and it is expected
that Mrs. hayes, who has been in 10
peka since his departure for the west,
will join him o
The executive officers of the west
ern roads met in Chicago and cOnsid-
cred a proposition to charge full rates
on material and supplies for railroads.
At present a half cen a ton a mile is
charged for transportation of such
supplies if used on railroads, while in
divlduals who lave to use such articles
are charged full rates. An agreement
could not be reached because the Wis
consin Central had just published a
tariff making the rate on such supplies
a half cent a ton a mile, n it is not
willing to rescind this tariff.
AT a meeting of the grand council
of the United Travellers of America,
an organization of commercial travel
ers of the United States, a resolution
was adopted opposing the bill of Sen
ator Elkins. of West Virginia, to en-
large a jurisdiction of the interstate
commerce commission, and which is
designed to permit the pooling of rail
roads so far as it effects the rates on
passenger and freight traffic. The res
olution declared the bill to be uncon-
stitutional and an infringement upon
the rights of commercial men.
The Topeka State Journal says: Jas.
Sheets. in the service of the car com
pany here as a millwright Tor twenty
years, before three years ago, when he
went to Albuquerque, N. NJ, because of
poor health, has returned to his place
and will remain here. He begun work
ing in the water service this morning
and his time will be occupied a good
many months setting up the machinery
for the new shops, tnat being the bust
ness of a tradesman of his class. His
wife and two children are here and the
goods have been shipped from Albu-
querque.
The stockholders in the Choctaw
who are objecting to the basis upon
which the Rock Island secured the
road-$S0 for the common and $50 for
the preferred-are not without reason
able grounds for such contention. Last
year the increase in Choctaw's gross
earnings was 80 per cent. Since No.
vember l the increase has been at the
rate of 80 per cent. The preferred has
been receiving its 5 per cent dividend
for four years. The common received
2 per cent in 1899, 4 per cent in 1900.
) per cent nj 1901 and a 10 per cent
dividend in common stock. But a few
days ago the common was advanced
to a 6 per cent rate.
A dear is now pending to transfer
rs more miles OF the Cnoctaw railroad
system TO the Rock Island. This is tne
extension into Guthrie from Haley
vile, |. T., AL the right of way for
which has ben secured by the Choctaw.
Active construction has beer IN prog
ress at Guthrie for past two months
and the ChOCtaw owns in Guthrie
alone over $500 ,00G worth of property.
including terminal grounds. An offc-
ial of the Rock Island stated that if the
transfer is made the line Will be ex-
tended from Enid to the main line of
the Rock Island and that the Rock Is
land extension from Kingfsher to Gu
thrie will be extended on west to Wa
tonga TO a connection with the West
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