Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-01-09
TRACK AND TRAIN.

ten on the sick list.
Engineer Finley has given ear to the
persistent call of duty.
Extra Fireman Wiggens is OFF duty
on account of sickness.
Fireman Banning is SPEEDING over
de rails again after his rest.
Engineer Donnelly, after a short
lay-of, is back at his post again.
Engineer Hicks, unable to put up
longer with the life of ease. has re-
turned to the throttle.
Fireman Busby, falling into the long
line Of men whose names are up for
duty. has put his UP also.
1926 was In the shops yesterday for
repairs on the valve works.
745 10 reported sufficiently recover
cd to resume her regular work today.
Orders arrived yesterday for the
men to work overtime on account Of
the absence OF new men. Work is
picking up and the force will be in
creased as fast as the prospective
workmen turn up.
A deed has been recorded at the
Eernalillo county clerks office trans
ferring the Sansa Fe Pacific railroad
property 10 the Atchison. Topeka &
Santa Fe. All railroads west OF Al
buquerque controlled by the Santa Fe
are now known as the Santa Fe coast
lines.
All the railroad companies enter
ing Pueblo are feeling the improve
ment in the output Of coal from the
southern mines. The Rio Grande and
the Colorado & Southern are now
handling from that quarter about 80
per cent OF the former output. Each
dag the Rio Grande Is receiving from
10 to lis cars, while the Colorado
& Southern is handling something
like sixty.
The total number Of trains held up
in fourteen years is 341; total num-
Der Of people killed, 80, and the num-
Der ci people injured (shot), 109. The
number Of trains held up in 1903 was
10, as compared with 20 in 1902. The
nuIaber of stage robberies in 1909 was
s, while that Of last year was Z. This
year's record shows that no passen-
gers or trainmen were killed by rob-
bers, but that 6 were wounded. One
robber was killed in 1903, as COM
pared with three last year.
The Santa Fe tarin department. en-
ploying about six men, will be moved
from Topeka to Chicago by the first
Of June Of this year. This depart
ment was brought to Topeka about
three years ago in order to see II the
work could be done to any more ad-
vantage there than in Chicago. But,
owing TO the inconvenience caused
BY the two Offices being far sepa-
rated, it was thought best that the
department be moved back to its for-
mer location. The freight department
will remain in Topeka.
Line to Mexico.
A new air line from st. Louis 70 the
City OF Mexico, which will be several
hundred miles shorter than any exist
ing road between the Mexican repu5-
lie and United States points, will soon
be built, 1t is said, by 3. F. Yoakum,
president Of the Frisco system. and
Colonel U. Lott.
1t has been known for several years
that President Yoakum's dream has
been a short line to the heart OF
Mexico which would furnish a connec-
ton with the Frisco system. and It
now appears that the st. Louis,
Brownsville & Mexico is the beginning
OF the enterprise.
The road is to be constructed from
ct. Louis through Houston, Texas, TO
Brownsville, which is on the Texas
border, close to the gulf. Plans have
been perfected, II is asserted, for the
extension OF this road along the gull
coast, crossing the Rio Grande at Mat
amoras and running in an almost air
line to Tampico, and thence into the
interior to the City Of Mexico.
Railroads Connect
The California Northwestern R. r.
and Southern Pacific are planning to
make q connection between their
roads by running q line from Napa