Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-05-12
TRACK AND TRAIN


The summer schedule OF the Santa
Fee will go into operation June 4.
General Foreman Muchmore has re
signed his position at the Winslow
shops and is succeeded by Mr.. Mar
tin of Topeka. Mr.. Muchmore was a
very popular foreman.
The engines on the Santa Fe, Pres.
colt & Phoenix will soon be fitted with
Oil burners. The oil tanks for the
tenders have arrived in Prescott and
the work of installing the tanks will
be commenced at once.
There is a well authenticated rumor
in Deming to the effect that Phelps,
Dodge & Co. have made the Santa Fee
company a fiat offer for the road and
its branches from that place to Silver
City. 1t is also said ON good authority
that should the Sap&A IA pot deem #
advisable to sell that portion Of their
road to the above mentioned parties,
Phelps. Dodge & Oeswiiasutso nce be-
gin the constructi0n4.Of~A~rOadI from
Deming to Santa Rita, where they
have large copper and hon mines, IL
Some time ago a dead engine was
standing in the Albuquerque yards
awaiting her turn in the repair shops.
The round house foreman happened to
glance casually out of his Office win
dow toward the engine and was
amazed to see great volumes Of black
smoke pouring out the smoke stack.
| He rushed out to find what was doing,
but instead of finding a haunted" en-
| CINE. he discovered that mischievous
small boys had placed a big bunch
| Of oil soaked waste in the fire box and
set 1t on fire.
Plans for the construction of thirty
| bridges for the Southern California
division of the Santa Fee railway have
just been completed by r. B. Burns.
chief engineer of the coast division Of
the Santa Fe, and work will be COM
menced at once. Fifteen OF the new
bridges will be on the line between
Los Angeles and San Diego. The re-
mainder win be on the line between
Los Angeles and Barstow. This
bridge construction will be a part Of
a general rebuilding of the Southern
| California lines Of the Santa Fe," said
Engineer Burns. I'VE have completed
rebuilding the Atlantic and Pacific
west from Albuquerque and are now
prepared to do some construction work
here in Southern California"
The master car builders of the great
Santa Fe system are holding their
annual meeting in Albuquerque. Rep
~resentatives from all the car shops
that are maintained by the system
are there, and the two days session
will be of great advantage to all.
Those who are in attendance are:
Master Builder T. M. Ramsdell, j. A.
Staple, S. N. Peck, M. Manson, Tope-
ka: S. D. Woods, Newton, Kan; w.
H. Taylor, Ration, N. NJ: c. Young.
Temple, Tex; Fred B. Reinhard, Cal
ifornia; J. w. Matty, Fort Madison,
Iowa; J. w. Hathaway, Pueblo, Colo;
w. N. Whitefieet, Needles, Cal; J. p.
Powers, Ell Paso. Tex; II. N. Calder
wood, Argentine, Kan.
The track-laying machine on the
Santa Fe Central railway resumed
work yesterday morning n mile this
side of Progreso and pushing toward
Willard at the rate Of two miles
a day. Progreso station was passed
at 11:45 a. n. on Saturday, and 1000
feet of siding were put down in the af-
ternoon. From Prugreso the grade is
down hill w the Estancia plains.
Last week at Cameleon an abundant
flow Of water was struck at a depth
of 200 feet. This is quite important,
for a prior attempt to strike water at
the foot of the Trinchera Mesa at Ca
meleon was a failure. The water is
of especially fine quality for engine
use. As Cameleon is only seven miles
from Torrance, 1t will for the present
supply Torrance with engine water,
and it is possible that the Ell Pas0
Rock Island railroad will also take a
part Of Its supply from the Camele0n
well, instead of running water tanks
down from Tucumcarri, over a hun
dred miles away.
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