Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-06-26
TRACK AND TRAIN

Engineer Evans is on the sick list.
Engineer Denniston is taking a lay
off.
Fireman Gray has reported for
duty.
Fireman Hill is off duty for a short
time.
Engineer Steadman is subject to the
doctors orders.
Engineer Kemmerer has gone where
the woodbine twineth to spend a few
days.
Owen Edwards, a machinist's help
er, was added to the shop force yes
terday.
The foundation for the boiler which
is to be palced outside the shops has
been completed.
Fireman Redding is reported a little
better today. All the other men IN
jured in the wreck are doing well.
The Santa Fe railway has Goo men
a. ,raply ronaipiro ne ,yar1c II, Arrap
tine. The depot platfrms had to be re-
placed and the yiaducts repaired.
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Jacinto Fugenzi, a blacksmith at
the local shops, is the happy dad to
q mighty dainty bit Of femininity,
which opened her bright eyes to
things terrestrial a short while back.
The big steam pile-drivers have
been brought to the Arroyo Pecos
crossing, and the work Of reconstruct
ing the foundation Of the bridge over
that treacherous water course will be-
gin at once.
Last week the Santa Fe surveyors |
We're running the new line paralleling |
the Rock Island between the Canadian
and Peeos rivers. They gave it out
that this is the permanent location of
the road tobe built connecting with
the branch from Belen now under corr
struction.
Work is rushing at the local shops,
and machinists are being added to the
force as rapidly as they can be Sc
cured. The following have been put
On within the last day or two, all out
side men: Chas. A. Cook, l.. D. Rich.
ards, Jas. H. Smith, C. w. Jones, T..
G. Kopp, Alex. Johnson, Chas. Hand
wright.
H. H.Rusby from Conant on the
Rock Island reports a big mining ex
citement in his n~eighborhood. Cop
per and silver running to values of
$40 per ton have been found in peck
cts and veins. Miners from every di-
rection are coming in and the pros
poets are for a boom of the old fash.
toned kind.
The evolution and development of
the railways of the world will be
shown in an exhibit in the palace of
transportation at the St. Louis expo
sition by the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
way. The display will occupy 10000
square feet of space. AT the Column
bian exposition at Chicago ten years
& the same railroad made what was
then the geratest railroad exhibit the
world had ever seen. Then the space
occupied was $4,000 square feet.
A committee of business men of a
Kansas town called on w. J. Black,
general passenger agent of the Santa
Fe at Topeka. the other day and asked
for Sunday excursions. Here's what
he told them: We'll, gentlemen, if
you have come to get the Santa Fe to
run Sunday excursions you have come
to see the wrong man. The Santa Fe
does enough business on week days
without running extra trains on Sun
day. II | had my way about it not an
engine on the entire system would
have fire in it. But the great com
mercial world and government mail
contracts compel us to run regular
trains on the Sabbath"
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Railway Accidents.
The summaries Of railway accidents
in the annual report of the interstate
commerce commission presents in
great detail. statements Of accidents