Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-01-10
BELEEN BREvIrIES.
IRTtRENESTIsS PERSONAL NOTES.

A force of thirty construction engin-
GERS Is already In the field. Lantry e.
Sons have the contract Cor the first
ffty-nve miles of work. commencing at
Belen. which includes all of the heavy
work on the line. Several carloads of
construction material are already at
the railroad yards. ]. N. Whealty, for
the contracting company, arrived at
Belen yesterday and Immediately set
to work getting things into shape SO
that the work may be rushed as soon
as the men and the rest of the machin-
cry and material arrive.
J. NJ. Reyes. who for two years has
been experimenting construction Of
several lines In Oklahoma. and who
has been appointed superintendent OF
general construction OF the entire line,
has been in the city several days and
Is now ready to assume the duties of
his new work.
f. II. Mud !, is to have the superin-
tendency OF the construction of the
bridge across the Rio Grande.
The river. where the line crosses II.
is very wide. and not having substan.
tial banks will necesstate bridge
much longer than the one at lsleta.
Mr.. Mccoy will have charge OF the
engineering force in the canyon at
Abo, where all the heavy work will he
done.
Mr.. Stewards party, which is still
busy on the eastern side OF the sum-
NIT, laying out sites for reservoir etc,
is nearly through with its work, and
then. will go on construction.
+. NJ Jones, chief locating engineer
Of the system will soon finish his
work here in their line. and will short
ly leave for Dodge City. where he now
has several parties In the field.
]. +. McNally, superintendent of the
Rio Grande division. spent the day in
the city, inspecting the conditions of
the impending work on tho new line.
It is stated on good authority that
| subsequent necessities of convenience
for handling repairs on the new Santa
l'e through coast line viii ultimately
cause the building of extensive shops
and the establishing of offices at Belen
and after these things come to pass,
while we will not say that Belen will
surpass Albuquerque IN commercial
/ Importance and in population. yet we
can confidently say that within five
years Belen viii rank second only to
Albuquerque, as regards cities in New
Mexico.
Oscar Goebel, Jr., who for the past
six months has teen connected with
the locating engineers department
left Belen Saturday morning for FL
Paso. where he goes 60 accept a posi-
ton in the large department store OF
Charles Kircher & Co.
Miss Alma Rigney and Edgar Goe
ell. who have been spending their
J Christmas vacation as guests OF their
respective parents, left last night to
again resume their studies nj the agri
cultural college at Las Cruces
Miss Frances Graves, of Albuquer
que. who has been spending the holi
days here as The guest Of her sister
returned to Albuquerque this morn
ing.
Miss Single, OF Albuquerque, re
turned to her home this morning. after
spending a few days as guest of MIR
and Mrs. Oscar Goebel.
| l.. G. Becker. a student nj the I'M
yersity of New Mexico. who spent the
holidays at home with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Becker, returned to his
work at the university this morning
! p. Il. Dalies, Charles Reinken ant
Mir. Rlgney spent couple of days in
yestlgating the condition of things a,
San Acacia and report very good cop
per ore to be found there. They were
out in the interests of the Belen CARR
ceto Developing company. which has
several good claims located there.
A very pleasant party was given by
the Hey Dey club at their club rooms
last Friday evening. Dancing, and
bowling for those who did not "trip the
light fantastic" went on TIL the "wee
! sma' hours" Among those present
! rom out of town were the Misses Stin
a , and Fleming. OF Albuquerque; w
S. Newart. of Knoxville, Tenn. and
Mr.. Kaufman. OF Albuquerque
DR.. Radcliffe. who, for the last three
weeks. has been on the sick list. Is
again able 10 be about.
The Misses Zinth, Frances and Kath
rye Graves gave a very pleasurable
| dinner party to number of then
friends on Sunday last. The menu
which was very unique, consisted OF
the following toothsome viands;
| Zanso asado con salsa
Frijoles verdes Papas filtradas
Pepinos Olives