Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-04-25
RAILROAD NOTES.

Owing TO a serious attack of neural.
gia. Fireman McCannon Is still on
duty.
In less than one year an American
company has bulls twenty-seven via.
ducts on the British Uganda railroad,
using 5000 tons of steel In the work.
| Jack Taft. en- ,ineer on the Rincon.
Doming-Silver City branch is at Min.
eral Wells, Texas. for his health. For
some time Mr.. Taft has been In poor
, health.
a meeting of the baggage agents of
Texas will be held at San Antonio next
week to discuss important matters
One OF them is the transportation of
dead bodies.
The Fort Smith & Western railroad.
now building 200 miles from Fort
Smith, Ark, to Guthrie, will establish
full train service next Monday, over
100 miles of the road completed be-
tween Fort Smith and Weleetka, l. T.
j. G. Balloon, a civil engineer In the
employ OF the Santa Fe Central Rail.
way company, who has been working
at Kennedy, arrived In Santa Fe Wed
nesday and came on to this city, where
he will visit for few DAYS. From here
he will go to Denver. his former home,
for visit.
The Rock Island Railroad company,
II Is reported on good authority. has
leased from the Santa Fe railway the
use of the Hutchinson 4 Southern
from Anthony, Kan, to Hutchinson
and will make Hutchinson the ter.
minus of the Choctaw. Oklahoma &
Gulf Railroad.
The New Mexican says: George
Riddle, engineer on the Denver & Rio
Grande passenger train. did not go out
on his regular trip moth this morning.
He is suffering from an attack OF con
gestion of the lungs. u. O. Wetzel.
the fireman on that run, took the train
out this morning.
Il. +. Mcclure, boilermaker at the
round house. and Lou Webb. machin.
list. who have both been working for
the Santa Fe company in that city and
have built homes and raised their fam.
lilies there. have concluded to browse
In newer, IL not greener, fields. and
will go to work for the Midland road
in Colorado.
II Is thought that there will be a
home for old and incapacitated train.
men erected in Denver soon. The home
will be built by subscriptions from the
different railway orders. The cost of
the home, as estimated by William G. |
Lee, vice grand master of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen, will be
about $4,000
The New Mexican SAYS: Postmas. |
ter Paul A. f. Walter returned yester. |
DAY from ten days leave OF absence
which he spent visiting the country |
along the line of the Santa Fe Central
railway and the FL Paso 4 Rock Isl. |
and railway. His observation In the |
shape of interesting and extremely
well written letters have appeared in
the New Mexican during the past few
days and have been received with
great favor by the readers OF this pa
per.
Plans have just been consummated
for the immediate completion OF line
OF railway in Central America. extend.
ing from the Atlantic to the Pacific
coast, which, II is believed, will have
the effect of diverting a large share of
the Central American exports from for.
eign ports to those of the United
States. The coffee output alone aver
ages 1000 900 bags annually, of which
almost the entire amount is shipped
to Hamburg and other European ports,
due to the difficulties in transportation
to the Atlantic seaboard.