Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-12-05
TRACK AND TRAIN


Fireman Fishburn is of.
Engineer Won is having q lay-off.
Jack Montgomery fireman is report
ed sick.
Fireman Heydt is not making his
usual run.
Engineer hammer is among those
who are taking a rest.
S. Smith will not be seen on his
engine for a day or two.
Fireman King who has been on the
sick list for some time is back 40
his duty.
j. C. Anderson, night man, Is about
to 60 to Topeka, his old home. He
will be accompanied BY his wife and
his place while he is absent, will be
filed by Willowby.
George E. Roe, the division freight
and passenger agent Of the Santa Fe.
with headquarters at Fl Paso, passed
through the city yesterday morning
enroute to Kansas City to attend a
meeting of traffic managers which
will convene in that city in a few
days.
The Santa Fe Is well fixed out in
this country to stand q coal famine.
1t has unlimited quantities Of fuel oil
on tap, plenty of oil burning engines
and it takes only a short time to
transform a coal burner into a grease
consumer.-San Bernardino Times
Index.
Thirty carloads of bridge material
have beer unloaded at Belen during
the past week for the new railroad
bridge across the Rio Grande 1t may
not be quite safe to predict just when
the work on the cutoff may be re-
sumed, but the fact that things will
start up in the neal future a by no
means be overlooked.
The death has just been announced
Of one Of the most widely known rail
road men in the middle west, H. r.
Deering, assistant general passenger
agent Of the Pennsylvania system.
His death occurred at Chicago, Sun
day morning. Mr.. Deering began ser
vice with the Pennsylvania system
Is telegraph operator thirty-six years
ago, and rose to the position OF assis-
taat general passenger agent in four
teen years.
CONDUCTOR ]. III. Graham, of the Ell
Paso { Northeastern, today brought.
in one of the heaviest trains which
has ever been hauled over the system,
says the Ell Paso News. Two Of these
coaches we're filled with immigrants
for Los Angeles, CAL They were
natives OF basque, Spain, who had
come direct to Ellis Island station
from their mountain home In north.
ern Spain. They go out to Los An
geles 70 work in the orchards. Alto
gether there were s31 passengers to
be transferred to the s. p. from the
Rock Island all Of whom were through
passengers. The train made excel.
lent time between FL Paso and Santa
Rosa. making up over an hour Of lost
times.
The Santa Fe makes it a prac.
tice of taking about twenty-five
coaches through for the west every
day, every car loaded to the guards.
Homescekers for Pecos Valley: G
L. Tallmage Of Chicago was here
yesterday and left on last evenings
train for Carlsbad, in company WITH
Don A. Sweet, the traffic manager 81
the Pecos Valley lines. Mr.. Tall.
madge is a very proinent Chicago
man and is engaged in the immiora.
ton business. He operates over The
entire United States and has 5000
agents under him. He was here in.
y~estigating the Pecos Valley and
Roswell with view to sending q large
number Of homeseekers from the
Northern states, and will very likely
send a colony of c%antaloupe growers
here in the near future. MIR. TAN
madge II a young man. but bis busi
ness interests are vast and the fac
that he makes a personal trip herr
means much for the Pecos Valley al
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