Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-12-23
A v TRAIN


Engineer Kirk is on the sick list
Fireman Quigley is of for one trip.
Engineer S. Smith is back TO duty
on 1882.
Engineer Roberts fiery steed knows
him not for n run.
B. 7. Payne, boiler inspector from
Topeka, is here on business.
Fireman Trainer is getting a lay
off on account of an injury to his
hand.
Engine S26 is in the shops for the
delicate operation Of the ~overhauling
OF the link motions.
Fireman Holmes has listened to the
soft voice Of duty and his name IS
written on the boards accordingly.
Engine 1881, out Of the shops hos
pital only a week ago, has suffered a
relapse. She is hack again for fur
Their treatment.
Orange growers in Southern Cali
fornia are trying to look on the bright
side Of affairs, and say that the pro
longed dry season will result in ben
eft to the crop this year, despite the
fact that in former years a rain in
November was considered indispensa-
bic to the proper maturing Of the
fruit on the trees.
The Santa Fe company has Just had
500 new freight cars built for ser.
vice In the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoe-
nix railroad. The cars all have the
name Of the local road printed on
their sides and in addition have the
Santa Fe trade mark On them. They
are from thirty to forty tons capacity
each. This makes about 600 cars o.
this kind now on the road.
Tourist Agents Abolished.-ln the
general system of retrenchment being
followed by the various western roads
it is stated that after January list i
will be rodered that all tourist man
ayers and agents be stricken off the
and Rock Island systems. No Off
cial report has been received, but tins
eastern papers have persistently held
that such would be the case.
President Hartman has again de
cidei to curtail expenses in the OH
ces of the operating department Q
the Southern Pacific company. A.
a result of a recent order from thu
management Of the Epad, all employs
of the accounting and auditing de
garments who are receiving mor thai
800 per month will suffer a reduction
affected by the order.
The Santa Fe and the Consolidated
oil fields company up near Kearn, arr
In a row over a right-of-way, the Of
people throwing a crowd of men int
the locality and within a short tint
the Santa Fe track across a forty-acr'
piece Of track was torn up. Th'
then moved
house onto the right pf way ant
manned the structure with a force 0
armed men to keep the railroader'
on.
President Ripley of the Santa Fe
in speaking Of the resumption Of worl
on the Belen cutoff in New Mexico
says that negotiations are again g
between the Santa Fe and Rock Is
land, which might eventually result
in d contract. but that further thai
this nothing could be given out a
this time. The cutoff Is to be con
s~tructed with a view to eliminating
the mountain grades on through bus
mess. 1t is estimated that with
line or low grade all the way to Call
fornia the Santa re couli save be
tween 100000 and s5oo,ooo annual
ly in operating expenses.
Dad Heeney once lived In the goot
state OF Maine and toiled IN the iroi
works at Bath where steamships arr
made. Bath is a city which does no
wholly approve Of all Maine laws AM
pad must have caught the spirit o
the place. He says there are fea
lures about the pine Tree state which
he Toes not like. yet there is on