Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-04-18
A AND TRAIN


Fireman Williams is among the in
disposed -,
Fireman Torbit is enjoying a little
vacation.
Fireman Stephens is marked up
with the invalids.
Engineer Lieb has been given q
whole day to play.
Engineer Caldwell is making the
most of an eight hour lay on.
Fireman Nelson has reported Tor
( strenuous duty, after a brief breathing
spell.
Engineer Davis has returned to Las
| Vegas after speriing a week or more
in Albuquerque. !
The big, new air compressor at the
| shops will probably be started Mon
| day. 1t had a rest today.
Fireman Mckenzie has been reward
| ed for many gooG deeds. done recent
~, by an eight Jour rest.
Quite a number of long trains laden
with California oragnes pass through
the city daily. Nearly all the oragnes
are consigned to Chicago.
Mrs. N. M. Rice and daughter pas
sed through the city yesterday bound
| for Topeka. where General StOrekeep-
er Rice is now located.
Division Superintendent F. c. Fox,
who vas recently transferred from
this division to the Newton, Kans., di-
vision is spending a day or two In the
city.
There are few prettier pieces Of
machinery running on American ran
ways than the monster locomotives
which pull the heavy Santa Fe pas
senger trains on his division.
Passenger traffic from the west o n
lists excursions to California. will, II
tinues unusually heavy. The colon
is expected, be the means OF sending
thousands Of travellers over the san
ia Fe before the first of June.
Several lines are %disputing as to
which railroad first generally equip
: ped it's passenger cars with electrlc
:. lights. That honor really belongs TO
= the Santa Fe. The Santa Fe began
experimenting with electric lights foI
it it's cars more than five years g In
Il its Topeka shops. 1t now has up
! wards Of 200 cars lighted BY electricl
: ty. comprising day coaches, chall
cars. diners and Pullmans. AS fas'
as possible it's other cars on through
runs are being similarly lighted.
A New Mexico railroad man says
that the new Santa Fee shops at TO
ypeka are nothing short OF wonderful
He speaks especially of the gian
= crane in the erecting shop, and say
10 IT is a magnificent sight to see II plcl
N m one Of the huge 1000 or 100 elias
i passenger engines, such as run nortl
" out of here, carrying it over the To-
nj of another locomotive and set 1t dow
ne nm another track as easily and gentl
q as if it weighed a few pounds instea
= Of a hundred n
announcement was made yesterda
10 - ~ ~oJu,,o = orc nf the Santa r
ne system in this city that the roa
OF would soon install oil burning loc.
in motives on the Seligman-WinslOw q
!, vision in Arizona, adding about IL
" miles to the mileage now covered .
nil burning engines on h Santa +
&C. system. The change will increas
at the Santa FEES consumption OF 1uei Q
= from 10000 to $4,000 barrels p.e
= month. The company will then I
Ut burning a total of from 14O,OOO 10 10,
ill 900 barrels. all OF which IS supphe
by it's own wells in California.
Toe Three weeks CO., The Optic gay
out the news that a surveying party ns
eV- heen out in search of a feasible rou'
me -a~tandinp the Santa Fe cutoff fro
,ad ne,cu to Syracuse, Kans Ten ia.
&c late. the associated press gave u
information that such a line Will
lot- built. paralcling the Rock islai
a" through the parairie country, al
lat avoiding steep grades and high mou
viii tains. is well assured. The Optlc
to give some additional inform
tlai tion that will be of great interest
ork rhe citizens of Las Vegas. 1t Is
the tremely likely that h new TOE
900 which will serve as the main Inc
the Santa Fe, will touch Las veg
(. and run by the track now IN Y
uld thirty miles south to San Mlgu
and thence across the plains to Beie
hot There is a choice of two routes. o
nearly as far south as the Rock
II aland. over the level prairies, the otl
Ito across the wide vegas stretching :
not from this city over a country equa
~ level and accessible. The advanta
is with latter route. in distance, IT.
ate the fact that thirty miles OF I'm
the already constructed, and rtherm
to because along the more soutne
course. the water is of such a chara
or a sto ruin any engine ever u
Al The Optic is informed that the eng
ties, GERS will recommend the 70
ner. through this city. Take a may g
trace the cutoff from Syracuse. ha
via Las Vegas to Belen, and you y
pre- be- convinced of the sweet reas
diff ableness" Of the proposition.