Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-10-06
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agent of the Southern Pacific road,
has undertaken to instruct the Chin
csc in the best methods of cooking
rice. He has Just shipped TO the
Flowery Kingdom cook books contain
ing 200 different receipts for cooking
rice. He did So at the request of a
Chinese merchant of Hong Kong.
It Is announced by Rock Island Of
ficials that ]. R. Blair, superintendent
of terminals at Kansas City, has
been appointed superintendent Of the
Kansas terminals division of the Rock
Island. Mr.. Blair is now virtually q
division superintendent. and although
his title is about the same, 1t is stated
that he will have more territory I'M
der his supervision.
The Santa Fe reading room at Nee
dies received a Stoddard piano which
will be used for the social functions
given at the ooms this winter. The
piano will be paid for by the sale Of
tickets for entertainments given at the
reading rooms and elsewhere. All
ready tickets are on sale for a ball to
be given at the opera house, Monday
evening, Nov. 16, 1903.
The Postal Telegraph company IS
giving It's lines general repairs be-
tween Albuquerque, Los Angeles 2
San Francisco. There are now three
gangs Of men working, each gang
consisting of about twenty men. One
gang Is working between Albuquerque
and Winslow, another between Wins
low and Ash Fork, and another be-
tween Ash Fork and Needles. These
improvements mean new arms
and the stretching Of a new wire de-
manded by the increase of business.
A party of st. Louis capitalists.
Messrs. Harlan. Lambert and Kohler,
are in Taos this week on business and
pleasure. These gentlemen represent
the interests of the New Mexico g.
Pacific Railroad company which pro-
poses to build a line of railway from
Ration to the Pacific coast. The route
proposed passes up the Cimarron
canyon to Elizabethtown and westward
through Taos or Red river. They are
looking over the resources Of the coun-
try along the proposed route and ex-
press themselves as we'll pleased with
what they have seen. The road is a
good proposition and will be built one
of these days whether the people build
1t or not.
A new fireman was put to work on
the Arizona & New Mexico road last
Friday, says the Lordsburg Liberal.
He attended to his work all right I'm
til the train got about twenty miles
south Of here. when he became quite
familiar with Engineer Torrance. He
grabbed his hat and wanted to wear
1t. Mr.. Torrance does not like too
much familiarity and stopped the train
and put his fireman on the engine.
He wa taken back to the smoking
car, and was found to be crazy. He
was taken to Clifton and put in the
hospital. 1t was found that he had
been hurt recently. having received a
thump on the head, which probably
caused the sudden attack.
Owing largely to the fact that 1t
has been using its own refrigerator
cars, the Santa Fe railroad company
Is breaking all records this season for
the transportation Of California fruit.
The superintendent Of the Santa Fe's
fruit car line said yesterday that the
company would haul during the season
more than $1,000 carloads OF fruit,
which is an increase of $500 carloads
over last year. 1t is also said that the
total traffic In California fruit over the
Santa Fe lines this year will exceed
the aggregate traffic by all other lines.
Owing to the enormous business which
the company is doing in the fruit line
an order has just been given for 500
new refrigerator cars. to be deliver
ed as loon as they can be CONSTRUCTED.
When these are received the Santa
Fe will have over 1000 refrigerator
cars, and will be independent OF the
Armour car line and other companies
operating private cars. The rapid
growth Of the Santa Fe's fruit traffic
during the last two seasons is large
ly credited by the officials to the
fact that they cancelled all their con.
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