Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-06-09
TRACK AND TRAIN


Engineer Hartley has reported for
his strenuous duty.
Fireman Stevens has inscribed his
on the lay of slab.
Fireman Hill is laying in as much
rest as possible during a short vaca-
ton.
Engineer Lee is laying on
to make an effort to find whether or
not the sun has gone out of business.
The veteran Santa Fee engineer Jack
Williams, well known here, will have
an operation performed on his leg at
st. Mary's hospital, Los Angeles,
which will greatly benefit him and put
the limb in almost perfect condition.
Work is very light at the shops
these days. The reason is found in
the comparatively few trains passing
through the city these rainy days.
All engines run very slowly and there
is little repairing to do even on the
few that do come in.
Contractor ]. A. Harlan is being
somewhat hindered in the work upon
the new San Marcial depot by the non
arrival of a carload of windows, doors,
etc, from Kansas City. He can get
no trace of the car and is inclined
to the belief that the Kansas flood
carried it to some out-of-the-way an
chorage.
The Santa Fe shop boys have organ
lied a base ball team. They have
issued a challenge to the wholesale
clerks, the game to be played probably
on the Fourth. The boys have some
good material and hope to a the
pulled up wholesalers look smaller
tnan did the retail diamond ~liliputians
after the Memorial day game.
The prospects for a railroad Y. M.
G. A. at FL paso have gone glimmer-
to- ~ox,- {I4 nx-c ~ n hIRIjl in.
t~ernational secretary of the Railroad
Y. M. c.. A., who came here from
Omaha to look over the situation. has
reached this determination. He was
accompanied by Secretary Jones, OF
the Beaumont Y. M. C. A., and the two
gentlemen decided that the scheme is
not feasible at present.
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Orders have been given to train
crews both north and south of the
city that very slow tine must be made
through all the territory where rains
have fallen. Wherever there is a
suspicion of a soft track, the trainmen
are instructed to halt until a section
man can be sent ahead to determine
the condition of the road bed. Rail
reading is being done under difficult
les along nearly the whole line of the
Santa Fe.
There are now about 600 men en-
ployed on the construction Of the
Phoenix & Eastern railroad. building
from Phoenix to Benson, and the work
is being pushed as rapidly as possible.
Considerable work is being done east
of Florence. where the heavy work is
encountered, and after this portion Of
the work is finished the road will adj
vance at a lively rate toward Benson.
The Benson Press says four camps
now exist between Desert Wells and
Benson. There is a tunnel 1000 feet
in length to cut, which is the most ex-
pensive piece of work on the road.
Trainmen coming into FL Paso on
the Santa Fe report that it is very
doubtful whether the Harvey system
will secure the hotel privilege in the
union depot when built at this point,
says the FL Paso Herald. The Harvey,
system operates fifty hotels along the
Santa Fe lines, and the reputation of
the system is well known all over the
country, but unless the depot com
pany places each bidder on a basis
of its reputation the Harvey system
will lose out, it is said, as that system
can not afford to pay a very high price
for the privilege.