Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-04-02

Nht BaSStHstI Trains udlly.
Superintendent ]. F. McNally came
up from San Marcial this morning.
Engineer J.. A. Carroll is marked up
as laying off. He has gone to the
coast for a few weeks.
Campbell and Hicks are new engi-
neers just promoted from firemen. and
are now running north from Las We
gas.
W. j. Hanna, water service man for
the Rio Grande division of the Santa
Re, was an Albuquerque visitor yester.
day.
The Ration stock yards. which
burned a few months ago, are being
rapidly rebuilt to accommodate spring
shippers.
, The survey of the Alamogordo &
Demtn1 railroad is completed and ar.
rangemenss are being made for con.
struction.
The telegraph operators on the Gin
%cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton have been
granted an increase in wages of from
s to 9 per cent.
The Illinois Central railroad has Sc
cured an option on $50 acres of land
near the outskirts of Birmingham, Ala,
TO be used as terminals.
The sixth biennial convention of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
will be held in Denver, May IS. The
brotherhood now has $4,000 members.
The Ell Paso Herald says that three
carloads of cattle arrived today from
Mexico for Fenchler Brothers, en-
route to Albuquerque. They were
cleared through the custom house this
morning.
An order for fourteen waycars is
shops at Topeka. The new cars, which
are to be built with a high cupola and
without platforms, are to be thirty
four feet in length.
1t is reported that the Office of F.
C. Maegly, assistant freight agent of
the Santa Fe, is to be transferred to
Chicago. c.. w. Cook, Mr.. Maegly's
chief clerk, will have charge of the
force that is left at Topeka.
The Bisbee Railroad company lei
Paso & Southwestern) has bought big
copper property in the Apache district
southwest of Deming, which no doubt
means the building in the near future
of another large smelter plant at or
near Deming.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad has
secured 60, 900 square feet of space in
the transportation building at the
worlds fair, st. Louis, and will make
an extensive exhibit showing the evo.
luton and development of the worlds
railways. -
The Southern Pacific is slowly com
ing to the conclusion that Great Salt
lake hasn't any bottom; that it reaches
down a million miles through China
and out toward Mars. The famous
Lucin cutoff across the lake at the
place where an engine was engulfed
the other day has five seventy-foot
piles driven or top of each other, and
yet it slumped.
Canada is to have another transcon.
tinental railway. Its terminals will be
at Quebec in the east and Port Simp.
SON, B. c., in the west. The road will
parallel the Canadian Pacific, but will
be from 200 to 400 miles further north.
traversing the heart of Canada
through the wheat and pulp wood belt.
1t will be called the Trans-Canada
railway. The Dominion government
has granted the promoters a charter
and prominent capitalists of Great
Britain and Canada are interested,
Canada now has one transcontinental
lima a cnnnnA rnnt11r -A.---
pletion and two, the Grand Trunk and
Pacific and the Trans-Canada under
promotion.
In the place of the common ron
telegraph wire which the Rock Island
now has in use between Chicago and
Topeka, there is to shortly be installed
a new copper wire which is to be a
great improvement over the old one.
The order for the new wire has al
ready been placed and it is thought
that 1t will be ready to string in about
TWO weeks. The man who will string
h wire will start west from Chicago
and will string the wire to Topeka by
way of st. Joseph and Kansas City. A
new copper wire was put in from To
peka TO western points during the last
year which, with the new Chicago wire,
Will make a continuous copper wire
from Chicago to the west. The Chica-
go wire, which is now in use, is a du-
pick n is operated by two men at
each end of the line. The new wire is
TO be a q~uadrupleX, which will necessi.
tate an increase in the for ce OF operat-
ors of four men, two more at each
end of the wire.
DENIES SALE OF SANTA eE.