Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-09-22
TRACK AND TRAIN

& Santa Fe acquired 70 locomotives
and contracted for 100 locomotives.
Trainmaster Coughlan, of the Rio
Grande division, has arrived in Albu-
querque from Dodge City, Kansas, az
companied by his family. Mr.. ana
Mrs. Coughlan will make their home
in Albuquerque.
Earl Kirk, a machfnist, who has
been employed in the Newton shops
for some time resigned. his position
and will go to Winslow, Arizona. He
has accepted a position there as gen
eral foreman Of the Santa Fe shop.
A grievance committee representing
5000 employees in the car and loeomo-
tive shops of the Chicago & North
western railroad is in conference st
Chicago considering action to be taken
regarding the company's refusal 70
grant a better scale Of wages.
The Rock Island railroad company
has issued an order all over their sys-
tenn that all men who drink intoxicat-
ing liquors, even moderately, shall be
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discharged and their places filled
with sober men. This company has
fought cigarette smoking for some
time, and the war still continues. It
Is now extended to the nan who
drinks beer, whiskey or wine.
j. G. Allendorph, of Kansas City,
and at one time a Santa Fe conductor
with Hutchinson as his home, has re-
Gently invented a steel rail which may
replace the standard rail now ! n use
on the railroads in the United States.
The new rail has been shown to 300
railroad operating officials and they
have pronounced it a more practical
rail than the one now in use.
"A Newton, Kansas dispatch says:
The resignation of H. A. White. a
conductor Of the M. and M. branch,
who has seen fifty years of service.
thirty Of which he has run a train on
the Santa Fe, makes the following
changes: Conductor Kugler goes
from the passenger pool south to the
vacated run, Conductor James takes
the pool and ]. G. Jackson from Strong
City branch takes run 527 out Of here.
Senator w. H. Andrews, president
OF the Santa Fe Central; Senator Ar
thur Kennedy, president Of the Penn
sylvania Development company. the
Dunlavy Mercantile company, and
chairman Of the board Of directors Of
the Santa Fe Central; General Man
ager w. S. Hopewell, Superintendent
j. II. Harris, General Freight and Pas
senger Agent B. W. Robbins, F. e.
Dunlavy, general manager OF the Dun
lazy Mercantile company; Chief En-
gineer Arthur G. Kennedy; Mayor /.
Sparks and M. T. Moriarty, made a
trip over the Central Saturday.
Santa Fe Repors.-The following
information in regard to extensions
of lines comprising this system is con-
tanned in the annual report for the
year ending on June 30, just issued:
The Phoenix & Eastern Is being built
from Phoenix. Ariz., to the junction
OF the ella and San Pedro rivers ct
Dudleyville. a distance OF about 30
miles. Construction Is complete ia a
point near Florence, and is progressing
thence to Dudleyville. The portion
OF your company's main line between
La Junta and Albuquerque, In Colorado
and New Mexico, extends through a
mountain region rich In mineral re-
sources, but is difficult and expensive
to operate as compared with the re-
mainder OF the line. II reaches al ell
ovation above sea level Of 1906 feet
at Ration and 7.421.2 feet at Glorieta,
with a maximum gradient OF ls4.S feet
to the mile at Ration, and 1884 feet to
the mile at Glorieta. For a long time
the management has been engaged in
preparing plans for a shorter and more
level line; and. in pursuance OF the
vote OF the stockholders at the last
annual meeting, your directors have
authorized the construction. under the
charter Of the Eastern railway COM
pany Of New Mexico. Of a road leav-
ing the Rio Grande valley at Belen.
900 miles south Of Albuquerque. and
extending eastward through the Abo
Pass. This pass is the most favora-
hto axit from tho valley of tho Rio