Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-11-02
TRACK N TRAIN


H. M. Moore has been appointed
travelling passenger agent of the Santa
Fe at Los Angeles, the position being
created for him.
Colonel j. w. Carter, for the last
fourteen years live stock agent Of
the Rock Island & Texas, has rendered
his resignation. He will become traf.
&c manager of the Fort Worth stock
yards.
It is reported at Albuquerque that
Mrs. Charles Beckett, widow of Fire
man Beckett, who was killed in the
Cajon wreck last January, will com
mence a damage suit against the San
ia Fe for $4,000.
The Rock Island syndicate is be-
lieved to be behind a new corporation
to be known as the Minneapolis Cen
trail railroad, the object Of which is to
build a line from Mankato to st.
Cloud, a distance Of 10 miles.
An official or the Canadian Pacific
is authority for the statement that
the road will shortly inaugurate a sys-
TEN Of retrenchment and will in q few
days issue a circular laying off many
men, the force being cut down in
every department. The S for this
is that the net profits for the month-of
September this year were $209,4SS less
than for the same month last year.
On November /, according to con-
tract, the Southern Pacific will pay
over to the Reed Crude and San Joa-
quin Oil companies $1,560.0 900 for the
holding Of associated stock. The deal
was made some months ago, just be-
fore the Kern OIL & Trading company
was organized by E. H. Harlan to
carry on the Southern Pacific oil bus
mess. Work has been commenced by
the Santa Fe railroad on the extern
sion OF its line into the west side
oil fields.
Fifty years ago 1t was considered
: remarkable and epoch-making event
when the first locomotive drew two
coaches and twenty passengers over q
stretch OF track at a speed OF i've
miles an hour. Far less interest is ex-
cited today when q speed of 1875 miles
an hour is safely reached. II the same
ratio Of achievement mark the next
nifty years, we may safely predict tlat
the journey from New York to San
Francisco will be covered in less than
twenty-four hours, and that flying ma
chimes will be cheaper than automo-
biles are today.
Railroads are jubilant owe q deci5-
ion made at Denver by Judge Lindley
of the county court, who ruled that .
railroad ticket has no intrinsic value,
and that its sole value Is in the trans
portation 1t represents. This WAS
given in the case OF a man who had
bought an excursion ticket to Chicago
and deposited 1t there as required
with the joint ticket agency. When
he presented his coupon receipt for
the return ticket to Denver the agsn.
suspected that he wanted to sell the
ticket ami refused to give 1t to him,
but offered to put him on the train
and pass him through. Suit was
brought for the ticket, but the court
threw the complaint out and held that
IN offering to see that he got . ride
home the railroad had performed its
obligation to the purchaser and had
Q right to retain tho ticket.
Reports widely circulated 10 the ct.
feet that both Union Psciac and Rock
inland interests are large purchasers
q Santa 70 stock And ready creAencs.
q b known that tAe Rock Island IN
eorests control . large block q the
oAAta - eAi nay later secure rep-
esssatAsioa % tAs iattss4 bsasd. -
tAougA The call for the annual meet
hs Of the latter would rot Indicate
sseA . step at present. II 10 quite
possible that Rock Island and Union
Pacific interests have been working
out : harmony program in their pur.
chases OF Santa Fe stock, whereby
such ownership has been secured for
the purpose Of securing . practical
community Of interest" Union Pa
einc, Northern Pacific. Rock Island
and Santa Fe would then have one !