Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-10-30

motive engineers who desire to be put
on a corresponding basis of wages
as those of the extreme southwest,
where the duties are much more Sc
we're and the cost of living greater.
Their officers, however, are calling a
halt; they realize that the time has
come when, If an advance in wages
is insisted upon, the railways will
simply reduce their force.
The Santa Fe is spending nearly
$4,000 on its Kansas City terminals,
and will soon have the most modern
facilities in the west for handling
freight. Its new freight houses have
a capacity of $40 car loads daily. The
drop truck system Is used, refriger-
ator rooms are provided for storing
%perishable freight and all the loading
platforms have steel runways. New
ground has been bought in Argentine
tnear Kansas City,, and it is planned
to lay out immense yards there, with
almost unlimited trackage.
Following the announcement that
the Santa Fe will shorten transcon.
tinental time a whole day by building
a $50 mile cutoff, comes the state
ment that more cut-offs on the system
in southwestern territory are being
planned. Surveys have been complet-
ed for an extension of the Santa Fe,
Prescott & Phoenix which, If built,
will form a part Of the low grade of
the transcontinental line. The Phoe-
nix & Eestern which will connect
| with the Santa Fe at Deming, is being
pushed forward, and the Grown creek
extension has been completed for a
distance of sixteen miles. 1t extends
from Mayer, Arizona, into the Crown
Kirk mining district.
The Express says: President L.
r. RipIey's reported plan to trans
form the Santa Fe's %kite-shaped inter
urban lines into an electric railway
system Is ridiculed in circles that pro
Tess TO know actual conditions from
the inside. AT the headquarters Of the
Huntington system the reported
story from Chicago that the Santa Fe
has prepared TO become a competitor
for the electric railway traffic in SOUTH
ern California Is secuted. 1t is insist
ed that in order to become a factor
in the Huntington business the Santa
Fe must obtain franchises In the sew
eral cities and towns through which
the present steam lines operate. The
company in few places Is in the heart
Of The several communities that are
tapped by Its existing lines, ami in
Los Angeles especially there Is no
outlet through the city.
]. j. Boone, q cattle raiser OF New
Mexico, filed suit in the district court
at III Paso against the Chicago. Rock
Island 4 Pacific, the Chicago. Rock
Island & Ell Paso, the Ell Paso &
Northeastern, and the Southern Paci-
fc railway companies, for $605 dam
ages, alleged to have been sustained
In the transportation Of two carloads
OF fine bulls from ST. Joseph, Mo, TO
Deming, N. M. The petition recites
that the first four named companies
are operated under common manage.
ment and constitute a system, and
that the five roads had part in the
transportation of said shipment OF cat
tie and the injuries hereinafter com
planned OF.
w. J.. Black, general passenger
agent for the Santa Fe, is In receipt Of
the following letter which was ad.
dressed by a western editor to a com.
pany Of ticket scalpers in Chicago In
response to a letter received from
them, proposing that they cooperate
In a scheme to beat the railroad com.
panies. bill Nye Ticket Co, 1870
So. Clark st., Chicago. m.-Si-s:
have your letter September 9th:
Won ara evidently laborIuR under Z