Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-07-24
TRACK AND TRAIN


Fireman Gray is reported ailing.
Fireman Stephens is on on a picnic.
Engineer Gray is taking a brief lay
OF.
Fireman Swank has reported for
duty.
Fireman Bates has joined the doc
tors brigade.
Fireman Milan is on duty in the
cab once more.
Engineer Stewart Is again describ-
ing geometric curves IN the mountain
division.
Fireman Graham is still In the doc
tors hands. He has been Ill since
Sunday.
The trains from the north came In
late last evening, having been delay
ed by a burned bridge near La Junta.
Engineer Wright, the right Mr..
Wright, is enjoying himself today. He
is marked up for one trip of.
Jas. H. Smith, day machinist at the
local shops soon expects to be glad
dened by the arrival of his wife from
Chicago.
E. L. Critchlow Of the Santa Fe
Central Offices passed through tina
City yesterday returning from Pitts
burg, where he spent several weeks
at his old home.
Leo Wattlet, formerly of Silver City
who is braking out Of Clifton on the
New Mexico and Arizona railroad,
met with a severe accident a few
days ago. In making q coupling his
hand was caught. in some way and
badly crushed. Although terribly
crippled, the doctor thinks he can
save the fingers.
Bio PayroII-ln speaking Of the
general business Of the E. P. q s. w.
railroad General Paymaster Ronis
says: "The business Of this road
FORCES ahead. The payroll upon this
trip is easily 4 5000. The several de-
partments continue to grow, and with
the steady increase Of the business
of the road the forces are enlarged at
Douglas. The payroll will naturally
increase as the business increases.
The volume Of business is growing
rapidly in every department"
The Quay County Democrat in refer
ring to the fact that work on the
Choctaw extension has been stopped
and the commissioners have had to
raise the assessments, comforts itself
for the unpromising outlook by the
philosophy that man needs a set back
once in a while to remind them that
man disposes and God d~isposes. 1t
looks very much al though the Rock
Island people and the Quay county au.
thorities were doing the disposing IN
the present instance.
An increase Of 20 per cent in gross
and 10 per cent in net for the month
Of May Is the showing that Canadian
Pacific publishes this month. Oniciais
have no definite explanation to make
Of the increase in gross, being con-
tent to say that 1t arises from the TACT
that the road 10 earning more freight
and more passengers than in any pre-
vious years in It's history. The In
crease II mainly from Toronto west
and shows the effect Of heavy immi-
grafton, largely from the United
-.
John F. Stevens, chief engineer q
the Rock Island. has issued n order
stopping the construction work upon
the line buildiny between Amarillo.
Tex. and Tucumeasi, N. n. The line
Z the ia mileo between the Rock
Islands main line 70 n Raso and the
terminus OF the Choctew. Oklahoma I
Gulf railroad 1t Amarillo. The Stubs.
Elick-Johnson company Of Kansas
City have the contract. we hal the
work about three-fourths completed
said Mr.. Flick. I'VE don't understand
the purpose Of the order"
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Survey Mads.
The reconnaissance preliminary to
a survey for the extension OF the San.