Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-02-17
TRACK AND TRAIN.

FIRST boom OF the season--See
Rosenwald's adv. second page.
Engine 2403 went out today after
having q new smoke stack put on and
other minor repairs made.
Engine 1887 is having trouble with
her link motions and came in yester-
day for repairs on the same.
Engine 745, whose duty it Is to pull
the big trains over the Glorieta pass.
is IN for the usual monthly repairs.
Geo. Wulf, head boiler maker, who
has been a few days in Ration on a
visit, returned last nigh to his post
of duty.
The Oldest working locomotive IN
the world is said to be In the Hilton
colliery at Durham. Epeland 1t was
built in 1915.
G. williams who was formerly round
house foreman, came down last night
on No. Z for a visit upon his many
friends here.
Pasha B.. LEVY, machinists' help
er, has tired of his arduous duties and
has signifed his desire to be quit ef
them. His resignation has been ac-
cepted.
Fireman Tingley has severed ms
connection with the railroad here. IL
is reported that he intends to Try
his luck in the big republic to the
south.
In connection with the construction
Of the big bridge on the cutoff out
from Belen, geo carloads Of Stag are 10
be used, and 1t is to be taken from the
OLD SUlelleT Jump az poSoiA
Advertisement is made at the shops
that another water train Is to go on
between Rowe and Lamy in a rev
days. Applications are in order from
the engineers who desire this post.
w. r. Mansfield, until recently su'
p%erintendent Of transportation of the
Tehuatepec National, with headauar
tiers al Rincon Antonio, has been ap
pointed general superintendent Of tht
Pan.Ameriean railroad and will be 10
Gated at San Geronimo.
Kansas City has twenty RAILROAD
systems and more than It's dali!
trains. Chicago has twenty-one rail
road systems and more daily train
than Kansas City, although many Q
them are suburban trains only, Kan
sas City has no suburban trains.
Conductor Elwood Hayes, who
at work on the Belen cutoff, has bee
in San Marcial recently on a visit I
his wife. He says Belen II quite
lively place at present, and will 500
be more so, for several hundred me
are expected soon to renew the wor
that was suspended last fall.
The mineral road which runs froI
Chihuahua to the Santa Enlalia mine
is taxed to its utmost for cars TO tran
port the ores now being taken OF
of these mines. The matter of pu
ting on night trains is being conside
ed and the Mineral road will n
doubt order 20 new cars at once.
The work Of changing and remode
ing the system of wires Of the SAINT
Fe electric light plant at Newto'
Kansas, to conform with the stripgel
rules adopted by the underwater
will m the latter part Of tn
week. Mr.. Barrett, foreman OF u
work. visited Newton and Is expectt
back with a force Of men to begin Y
work.
Engine No. 259, a new balance col
pound nov being tested on the Califc
mia Limited. between Newton al
Dodge City on the western divisio
has demonstrated her ability to haul
heavy train with ease at the rate
70 miles an hour. says the Newt
'Kansan.. i. johnson. q machinis
from the back shop, is acting as G
gineer Of tests.
A Barney Of Denver, trayeli
freight agent Of the Denver & r
Grande railroad, has returned TO So