Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-09-05
TRACK AND TRAIN

Ration and has come TO Las Vegas TO
school.
VIM. Taylor, a brother of C. NJ. Tay-
Tor, is now night foreman of the round
house at Ration.
Jim Sweeney, for many years day
.yardmaster at Ration, has resigned to
accept a position as night yardmaster
at Argentine, Kans.
Machinist John Wilson and wife re-
turned last Thursday to Ration from
a visit of several weeks at Port HUI
ron, Mich. They report a fine time.
The passenger engines at Ration are
being equipped with electric head
lights. Mr.. Bailey of the Pyle Electric
company, is experimenting the equip
ment.
John McLearie, Santa Fe craftsman,
formerly a wellknown and much-liked
citizen Of Ration, but lately OF La Jun
ia, is lying seriously i'll at Colorado
springs hospital.
James Pelot, trainmaster's clerk at
Ration, has gone to take a position as
stenographer for G. H. Bristol, super
~intendent Colorado division, with
headquarters at Pueblo.
The Silver City Enterprise suggests
the most plausible reason yet given for
the suspension Of work on the Santa
Fe cutoff. It says that the Santa Fe
officials have received confirmation OF
the rumor that Colonel Berger had
decided not to start his paper in Belen
and this SO thoroughly disappointed
them that they ordered the work stop
ped on the new line.
RAILROAD ~. 80. ..Kdgd. eeUHe
In q table carefully prepared the
Lake Shore road is shown to earn $1.6S
per mile per train run; the Pennsyl-
vania, $1.31; the Santa Fe, SLIPS; the
New York, New Haven & Hartford,
SLAP; the Rock Island, $1.21. The
Jersey Central ranks the lowest, earn
ing $O.Ss per mile; the Wabash earns
$0.91.
improvements are moving along
nicely at Ration. The new depot will
be finished by the middle Of October,
the stone walls of the new round
house are ten feet In the air, a force
OF men are putting in the piles and
platform for the new ~storehouse, the
concrete foundation is in for the new
shops and stone Is being unloaded for
the walls. There are also a number
Of minor improvements going on, such
as putting in new ties through out
the yards. tearing down the old cleo
trio light building preparatory to the
erection OF the new freight depot, etc.
President G. B. Eddy Of the FL Paso'
& Northwestern officially announces
an alliance between his road and the
Rock Island and the Santa Fe. where
by the Rock Island gets a western out
let for Its Pacific coast traffic from
Llano via Albuquerque, greatly short
ening its route to the west. In re-
turn the Santa Fe gets trackage priv
ileges from Liberal, Kans., to Llano.
This arrangement mean that the
Rock Island through traffic for Califor-
MIA will cease to come via I'll Paso,
and a distance Of 225 miles will be
saved, giving that line the shortest
trans-continental road in the country.
The well boring gang Of the Santa
Fe. that has been putting down the
new well at the Santa Fe roundhouse
in FL Paso, is pulling up the pipe and
loading the outfit preparatory to NOV
ing to northern New Mexico, where
some wells will be bored. The well
there was put down to a depth Of three
hundred and sixty feet and only a
very small supply of water was Sc
cured and that carried a large per cent
of alkali and other ingredients and
was unfit for engine S The old well
will continue to be used until some
future date, when another trial will
be made here for water.
A well dressed young man who was
beating his way east on the No. .
Santa Fe passenger train fell under
the wheels a few miles from Hol
brook. Arizona. Wednesday evening
and was fatally injured. The wheels