Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-05-08
TRACK AND TRAIN

Engineer Schubert is now numbered
among the lay offs.
Fireman Lynn has reported for duty
after a short vacation.
Engineer Martin has reported for
duty after several days of.
Brakeman Coles. Dixon and Council
are numbered among the lay offs.
Fireman Trainer has reported for
duty after several days off rusticating.
Fireman Jessoy has acquired the
popular ailment and is laying off sick.
Brakemen Denler, Lang and Geo,
Flaherty are resting up for a few
trips.
Machinist Frank Roper is laying
off nursing a severe attack OF rheuma-
tism.
Engineer Denniston after several
days of has reported for duty once
more.
Engineer A. Davis was numbered
among the sick today as was also En-
gineer Gum.
Machinist Harry Hamilton has sent
in his resignation and will hunt for a
job in other parts.
Conductors Jackson. Cunningham.
Koeble, Gatchell and Burks are mark
ed up on the lay off board.
Machinist Schreck who has been Off
for a couple of days nursing a pet
boil, reported for duty this afternoon.
A. +. Powell, route agent for the
Wells-Fargo Express company, passed
through the city yesterday evening,
south bound.
The Santa Fe Announces that 1t will
soon fit its grain cars with a newly
invented door. The new device Is a
door within a door. The inside one,
which is made of boiler metal, is so
constructed that 1t can be opened
while the car is loaded without spill
ing the grain or breaking the door.
The trouble with the doors that are
now in use is that they are too hard
to open when the car is filled with
grain. and it often requires the use
of a crow bar.
Stakes We're driven yesterday for
the new Santa Fe passenger depot at
Ration, and w. r. Carter, the contrac-
tor, is on the ground with a force
of e to begin construction at once.
The building will be the old Spanish
mission architecture. built Of stucco,
two stories high, and will be 56x170
feet ground space. A number of citi-
zens have held off contemplated build
ing to see what the Santa Fe was
going to do. The town will certainly
have a building boom this year.
Tuesday morning the machinists,
boilermakers ~~' helpers in the FL
Paso-Northeastern shops at Alamo
gordo walked out on a strike. The
reason for the strike is due to- the
fact that Superintendent of Motive
Power Parsons of the r. pm . d.
charged the foreman of the shops,
Jacob Merle. A committee of shop
men called on Mr.. Parsons and asked
for the reinstatement of Mr.. Merle;
this was refused, and when the com
mittee reported to the sh0pmen Mr..
Parsons decisic7 = agreed to walk
out. This effects about two hundred
and fifty men.
l.. w. Newberry. who is employed
on the new line of the Santa Fe build
ing east from Belen, tells the Journal
Democrat that things are rushing
along the new line. Five miles Of
permanent track is laid east from the
river. and the grading to the mount
aims is almost complete, although
some work with the steam shovels is
being done near the river. There are
$50 men at work out in the canyon
and the dirt and rock is flying at a
great rate. The big cut, 1870 feet deep.
is getting well along toward compile
tion. Some wonder has been express
ed that the company did not tunnel
here instead Of making such a prodig-
oiusly deep cut. The reason Is that
the material is so loose and shay that
the digging OF a tunnel is practically
an impossibility. II Is an interesting
fact that out in Abo canyon there are
within a distance OF three miles sew
en- big stels bridges Of varying length.
The number Of bridges necessary and
the immensely OF the excavations
makes It evident that the building Of
the cutoff is going to cost all kinds
OF money and Is an engineering feat
well worthy OF note.