Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-08-07
TRACK AND TRAIN


Where the zephyrs play the live long
day.
And all the girls are fine,
Where the brooklets run, meath the
shining sun
Back Home in dear Olwein.
o, the fond delight Of u friend
Handwright
Back where the woodbines Irvine.
Yet have a care. beware, beware,
There's danger at Olwein.
Engineer Evans has reported for
duty.
President Ripley is back in Chicago
again.
Fireman Williams is off today for
one trip only.
Travelling Claim Agent P. W. zim-
herman is here today.
BILLY. the Goat" No. 23SS is re-
ceiving the attention Of the round
house men.
Engineer Cook, who has been ZEN
joying poor health for a spell has
gone back to work.
Tickets for the ball at the Monte
yuma Casino to be given by Inc ma
chinists. Aug. %, are selling like the
proverbial hot cakes. Ration people
have sent down for a goodly supply.
The shop lists just now show thai
Engineers Lynch. Hartley and Garvin
are laying OF, that Firemen Wilson.
Brown, Donahue, Morris, Heydt, Ba'
ker, Jessoy, Bailey and Nelson are
doing likewise, that Firemen Keathley
King and Evans are still sick.
Il Is not too much to predict that
within twelve months the Hagan coal
fields in eastern Sandoval county
reached by the Santa Fe Central rail-
way company, will have an output OF
$4,000 tons Of good merchantable coal
Der month. Coal and iron combined
command the world and New Mexico
has plenty Of both. All that Is needed
is brains. energy, knowledge and capi-
tai to produce and combine them.
When that is done New Mexico will
in a decade or two be second to none
of the American commemorative m
manufacturing enterprises.-Santa Re
New Mexican.
The flight Of the Low special from
Ration to Albuquerque broke all rec
ords for the mountain divisions Of
the Santa Fe. Engineer Boyle n
Fireman Chas. Norman brought the
train from Ration In two hours ana
ten minutes. The special left this
cfty at 2:22 o'clock yesterday after
noon and arrived at Albuquerque at
5:3s. thus covering the distance IN
the remarkable time Of three hours
and seventeen minutes. The fastest
preyious time was three hours and
twenty minutes, made by the Selig'
man special eight years ago. Engi'
neer Fred Hammer and Fireman May.
field were the engine crew. The 1888
was the engine used.
Locomotives 1106 and $50 were both
taken out on their trial trips Saturday
after being repaired in the machine
shops at Topeka. These are two 81
the big prairie type which were taken
from the mole in the Santa Fe yards
at Kansas City. This hole was formed
during the food ami when the water
subsidized 1t was found that It contain
ed several Santa Fe engines. A der
rick was Immediately put 70 work on
the brink Of the hole and the engines
were taken out and brought to the
Topeka shops for repairs. When the
engines arrived there they were tn
very dilapidated condition, but since
they have been repaired they look al
most ~ good % new.
The passenger train that runs from
the junction at Rincon UP to Demins
and Silver City was wrecked Tues
day night near Hatch, just before u
reached the Rio Grande bridge. The
branch train makes pretty good time
and it was bowling along at high
speed when a horse started across the
track directly in front Of the engine
The equine a struck amidships
and converted into mincemeat, ditch
eou .ba u,hnta train Evarv rar left