Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-06-02

RAILROAD NOTES.


cola.
Engines Nos. $50, 226 and 4sS are
again ready for work after undergoing
repairs in the local shops.
Miss Irene Meyers, Of Rincon, is WIS.,
iting with the family of Conductor o.
p. Coleman, at San Marcial.
Engines Nos. 479 and 434 have been
been brought in off the line and will
receive a going over in the shops.
About 500 of the 1900 locomotives
used on the railroads of Japan were
manufactured in the United States.
Engineer ]. G. Taft writes Ed Man
ming, of San Marcial, that he is grad.
ually recovering his health at Mineral
Wells, Texas.
Two popular San Marcial firemen,
Ed Lauderback and w. d. Wilsey,
have received official notice of their
promotion to engineers.
The site of the old San Marcial depot
has been filled up and shrubs and flow
ers are to be agents in the attractive
ness of that part of the long cement
platform.
An applicant for a Pullman berth at
the FL Paso Office last week got mad
at the agent because there was no
lower berth for him and pulled a gun
on him. 1t is said the agent gave him
a wide berth"
The a~dvisability of and the necessity
for the Santa Fe railway company de-
livering pay checks to employees on the
Sabbath day is being questioned by a
few of the citizens of San Marcial, who
believe in the strict observance of the
day.
d. c. Dunlap. chief engineer for the
New Mexico Northern railway, and
his ste~nographer, Miss Young, left
this morning for Bland, in the Cochiti
mining district. Engineer Dunlap ex-
poets to be at Bland from now until
the new road is completed.
The tool house at Lamy Junction,
adjoining the Harvey house, caught
first about 7 O'Clock Sunday night and
was entirely destroyed. 1t was full of
oil and other combustible material,
but as a heavy rain was falling and
there was no wind it was not difficult
to keep the fire from spreading.
The executive committee of the
southwestern colonization bureau held
a meeting in Chicago and mapped out
a program for j. w. Steele, the mana
ger of the bureau, for his tour through
Texas to interest commercial bodies
there in the efforts the southwestern
roads are making to COLOMBO the state.
1t is stated on reliable authority
that there are now extensive improve
ments contemplated in the Santa Fe
shops at La Junta, which will involve
an expenditure of about SOU, 900. There
are about one hundred men now en-
ployed in the car department alone in
that place and it is necessary to pro-
vide more convenient quarters.
AS an evidence that traffic off cials
are confidently expecting railway roll
ing stock to be much cheaper, it is
stated that President Newman of the
New York Central, while desiring to
buy a large number of cars, has de-
cided to postpone the purchase, saying
that every months delay in the matter
meant a large saving to the company.
A station agent is no longer kept at
Lava. The only official in sight is the
night operator. This arrangement
makes the sending and receiving of
freight by A. E. Rouiller, of Paraje,
very unsatisfactory, and he is consid-
ering the feasibility of changing the
location of his headquarters to this
side OF the river, and transacting his
freight business at San Marcial.-Bee.
A. D. Kirkman, foreman of the San
ia Fe well boring outfit which is now
sinking a well at Armijo, a small sta
tion %ffty-four miles west of Albuquer-
que, is in the city buying supplies.
He says the drill is down about 600
feet and has struck btlt one vein of
water of any volume. That was struck
at a depth of 144 feet and of little con-
sequence. Mr.. Kirknan will return to
Armijo tonight.
Mr.. and .irs. r. l.. McCance left
Sunday for their old home in Pitts
burg, Pa, where Mr.. McCance will re-
sumo his position as auditor for the
capitalists Interested in the Pennsyl-
vania Development company and the
Santa Fe Central railroad and other
extensive enterprises in Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana. Mr.. McCance will
be back in about six weeks and will
remain a few days on official bust
ness.