Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1904-09-17
Railroad Topics

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The company has a large force Of
men az work building a track around
the flooded district and q viii be- four
o. five days and perhaps longer. be-.
foro traffic can be resumed.
Death Of Conductor Burna.
Word comes from Ration today OF
the death from pneumonia of Cunduc.
Cor Chas. Burns. Decreased was woil
known IN this city. He was On tho
freight service here for years. For
some time past De had bccn running
az conductor between Ration and IA
iuuta. making hia home On the former
city Several days ago. his uncle WIN.
Coin, was called to- Ration by the
gcntomau.g serious illncaa Deceased
leaves a wife but no children. n &C.
understood that Die mother ls now ln
Chicago to receive medical treatment.
Many in las Vegas win deeply regret
ihe ticking away uf the popular Young
railroad man.-las Vegas Optic.
Albuquerque Eastern-tIon. W. s..
i0rowCl. general manager OF the A.
huqncrquo Eastern railroad. spon. the
day here Tho chief business OF the
gentleman was ln connection with tio
contracts which Eugonlo Romero has
taken Tor the albuquerque Eastern. As
io Ties Do says thar provision has been
made for nll that win he needed for
The construction of the finy odd miles
from The Santa De- Central Junction 20
Albuquerque A. Co the building OF tho
rullUad ltHClf Mr. Hopowoll saws that
work o. nov going ON rapidly. Two
thousand tons Of rails have arrived
and more are coming both % the east.
orn md western terminals Las We.
gas Optic
Superintendent Fox. of Newton. b.
making "a tour of enc Santa pc Hnea
under his Jurisdiction. Ho reports tho
E'durodo branch to ho now ono of tho
best tracss in Kansas. BE also pre-.
diets % huge corn crop along the Santa
20 lines. except DO valleys hurt by tho
flood Florence people expect their
nov passenger depot 20 DE- opened this
month and want to clebrato tho
event % rs almost a duplicate 81 tho
sterling dCpo. Tho operation anh
agent are using the now freight depot
az present
The immigration agents 90 the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad. io the number
OF 600 are 90 he ia ST. Louis Monday.
TuosdaY and Wednesday of next
week They viii hold sessions on those
days in the Missouri state building AZ
The Worlds Fair Thoir headquarters
while In tho city will be- at tho Inside
'un where they are 20 have a banquet
Tuesday evening
y ~ Young was awai ded the con.
tract Tor building the telephone line
from Gallup to Zuul There were n
number OF bidders but Mr. Young's
bld was the lowest being 1896. Work
win begin on the now line just na
soon as the ,aperH are returned from
Washington
The crossing by a railway OF any
highway at grade ls necessarily "A
hazard to llfD. 30 such danger ia Der.
miitod ln Great Britain. whore rain.
ways are required 90 go Above or un.
der en- other roads. a provision that
adds greatly to the coat OF railway
construction
The Union Pacific railroad has de-
cidcd 10 increase Co., facilities in Den.
ser and Will spend $1,000. 900 IN re-.
pairs and the building OF shops. The
company determined 10 take back the
shops that So has been renting 20 tho
Pullman Car company for q long
time
The Santa Fe Now Mexican saws
that last night the Denver q RIO Gran.
de- train from the north came ln az a
double header The train was an cox.
ira heavy one. having eight cars load.
od with new steel that is to be used
on the Albuquerque Eastern railway
IN the interest OF economy tho Rock
Island has closed its locomotive ana
machine shops On Chicago and Cedar
Rapids for Two weeks. The order e.
iccts 500 men and means n loss In
time 10 The employees of $500 for
thc two weeks.
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Spoilers riding as holoes have made
good in several Instances on Tie
western division OF the Santa Fe.
Within a short time several trainmen
have been discharged from this dlvl.
sion ON testimony given hay this class
~ employees
had trustlos, open switches and
wrong instruction continue 10 got In
their deadly work on the railroads OF
che United states
,AAAnRAa 90 YEARS