Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-10-21
TRACK AND TRAIN


Fireman Fletcher has reported for
duty.
Work is light on the mountain run
these days.
The $50 has been housed for a little
repair work.
Engineer McQuiddy has completed
his vacation.
Rapid progress is being made on the
round-house walls.
Fireman Holmes is unfortunate
enough to be housed with an unpleas
ant illness.
Firemen Nielsen, Haslett. Bates and
Coulter will not handle the capacious
ladle for some time.
"Be brief; we have our living to
make, and il takes considerable Of
our time to do it," is a new motto
which appears on the round-house bull
letin board.
The Santa Fe machine shops and
round house at Albuquerque are hav-
ing a heating apparatus installed.
which will provide warmth for the
employees during this coming winter.
Heretofore the shops have had no
heat, and the Improvement will he
greatly appreciated by the shop men.
The radiators are being put in place
and the work will be finished next
week.
The Santa Fe will operate a weekly
Pullman tourist sleeper line this fall
between Galveston and Los Angeles
by way Of Newton and Albuquerque.
It is for the especial teey- [ pas
sengers who wish to take advantage
of the low colonist rate from Texas
to California. A similar weekly car
is also regularly run over Santa Fe
lines between Chicago and Galveston
by way of Kansas City.
A big army Of men made a desper-
ate fight at Olinda, Cal, to save the
Santa Fe oil fields from destruction
by a fire which was started from a
spark from an engine. The fire orig
mated in the Hall lease, which is just
below the Santa Fe lease. Great vol
umes of flame were soon rushing up
the hill and in an incredible time the
entire mountain was blazing. All
that saved the fields from destruction
was the direction of the wind, which
blew the flames to the hill north of
the fields.
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1t is becoming quite the fashion to
20 to the Orient by way of California.
The Santa re is advertising trans-Pa-
cifc trips on the Pacific Mail steam
ers from San Francisco to Hawaii,
China, Japan and the Philippines. The
new twin-screw steamers Of that line
are fast and safe boats. Journeys
across the Pacific from Frisco to
Hawaii, Tahiti, New Zealand and Au-
stralia on fine new boats Of the Ocean
ic Steamship company. speeding sew
enteen knots per hour, are also a fav-
orite with travellers seeking absolute
rest and new
Gross earnings Of the Pullman com
pany increased $2,50o.000 to s23.120.-
900 in the fiscal year ended July 81.
The net earnings were 39.417,6S7 after
the deduction Of $10.3 $780, 59 for operat-
ing expenses, s~2,739.313 for deprecia-
tion and reserve, and $574,2l5 paid
to associated interests. These earn
ings figure 1872 per cent on the $74,-
900, 900 capital stock. The %company's
surplus for the year, after the pay
ment Of dividends at the rate Of s
per cent wat s3.497, 719, raising the
total surplus as Of July 81, to $14,275.-
749.
Among the different rumors which
have been set afloat with regard to
the intention on the part Of the San
ia re to do things" is one to the
effect that the company will extend
its system beyond Eureka, in northern
California. the ultimate terminal point
being Astoria on Puget sound. Some
time ago the California and Northern
Railway company, organized under
fhe laws ri Nevada. became a Santa