Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-30
Railroad Topics

The new union depot at Ell Paso will
cost $3.50, 900.
Robert Kealey, of Deming, has been
appointed car inspector for the Santa
Fe at Fierro.
The Santa Fe is rebuilding its tie
picking plant at Belmont, which was
destroyed by fire. 1t will be ready
for business about May 1.
The Rock Island and Ell Paso North
eastern railways are making an effort
TO boom Mexico. Home seekers tx
cursions will be run by those roads.
The sixth biennial convention of
the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
will be held in Denver May IS. The
brotherhood now has 60, 900 members.
John Doran, formerly car inspector
for the Santa Fe at Fferro, has resign
ed and is now located at Lordsburg,
Killing a similar capacity with the
Southern Pacific.
William X. Vanderbilt denies the re-
port that the New York Central rail
road has changed hands recently. He
also states that the officers of the road
are acting in harmony.
The new Rock Island time card
which is to go into effect April 5, pro-
vides that the Golden State Limited be
taken off as a daily train, and run until
lex winter as a semi-weekly service.
w. A. Powers of the Santa Fe chem
ical department returned to Topeka
yesterday from an inspection trip
through New Mexico. He has been
looking over the water treating plants.
William Charlton, foreman of the
boilermakers at Needles, who spent
much of his time here during the
strike as chairman of the grievance
committee from the desert town. has
gone to Albuquerque on a visit.-San
Bernadino Sun.
II. L.. Rollins, bridge engineer for
Landry Sons, experimenting the con-
struction of the bridge across the Rio
Grnde at Belen, was here yesterday.
He came here to meet Mrs. Rollins,
who arrived from Los Angeles. They
went to Belen last night.
A special, bearing 100 recruits for
the Fourteenth cavalry at Fort Grant,
Ariz., came in yesterday over the Rock
Island Saturday, says the Ell Paso
News, and went out over the Southern
Pacific. The soldiers were from Co
lumbus barracks, Columbus, o.
Fireman Billiard was recently pain
fully injured at Ash Fork. He jumped
off the engine to turn a switch, but
instead of alighting on firm ground
went over a ten-foot bridge. He was
picked up unconscious, with a badly
bruised face. He was taken to Selig-
man.
A heavy Missouri Pacific freight ran
into the south-bound st. Paul express
on the Chicago Great Western railway
Thursday, cutting the latter train In
two and badly wrecking the rear chair
car and sleeper. Most of the passen-
gers were in the ordinary coach and es-
capped injury.
The Santa Fe advertising depart
ment has issued a tidy little pamphlet,
quantity illustrated and which advo-
Gates the great southwest in telling
language. Among other assertions is
found the following truth: Nearly
every Santa Fe town in the southwest
is inhabited by wide-awake, u~p-to-date
American citizens who hustle for busi-
ness and don't let anything good get
away"
A petriied shark, fifteen feet long
and weighing 500 pounds, unearthed
near Yuma, Ariz., some time ago, was
shipped through the city last week by
the Wells-Fargo company en- route to
Omaha, Neb., where it will be placed
on exhibition. 1t came from Yuma by
way of the Southern Pacific and Rio
Grande division of the Santa Fe. 1t
required six men to make the transfer
here from one express car to another.
o over Sixty Years.