Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-03-18
TRACK AND TRAIN.

IA MVU lluIIlls
Geo. Drollinger, a wiper. has sever
id his connection with the company.
Engine $50 which has been doing
duty out of Albuquerque, has been as
signed to this station.
At 9 o'clock last evening the Gates
excursion special passed through this
city. The train was composed Of sew
en- cars bound from California to Chi
cago.
Experiments were being made this
morning on the compressed air mech
anism which is to operate the new
turntable. The table has been put on
trucks and will soon be run over the
pit.
Charles Snyder, who was formerly
q conductor on the Santa Fe Pacific
and who was supposed to have left
Tor siberia, via San Francisco. a short
time ago, was noticed on the street
here the other day.-Albuquerque
Citizen.
James S. Douglass, president Of the
Nacoxari Railroad company, states
that the Nacozari road will reach Ma
cozari. Mexico, May 15( and that with
in one year the road will be extend
ed ifty.six miles farther to Nocte-
yuma, the seat Of the district.
It is announced that the Santa Fe
has erected a new interlocking plant
{ overlooking the Missouri Pacific cross
] ing near Usage City. The new plant
will 20 into effect at once and 1t is
4 expected that it will do away with the
3 possibility Of accidents at that point.
The Pullman company, to Offset the
B damage suits that have been filed
y against it in Texas for infraction OF
n the antitrust laws. has threatened to
withdraw its trains from Texas. II Is
s& also asserted the bluff has stuck and
as a result the suits will be with
drawn.
HIM The Mexican railway has erected Q
monument, with suitable inscription
marking the POINT where the road is
crossed BY Tropic Of Cancer. The
monument is OF wood, twelve feet
high and twenty-four feet long. Or
the top there are two arms pointing
out the two zones. It is situated OF
the desert ground a few miles soutl
of Catoree.
Among the other fine equipmen
B which the Mexican Central has beel
receiving from the United States !
"a a fine new steam wTecker. This ma
~
chine is now in the I'll Paso SAINT
Fe yards. As soon as it is cleare'
through the custom house Il will b
taken to the lower portion Of the lin
for us there. 1t Is n Of the larg
est we seen there.
n Aaron McCellen Of Prescott, Ar
iona, has just accepted the position Q
II stenographer in the Santa Fe Ell Pas
office, to fill the place made vacan
81 by the resignation Of Stenographe
Ressigue some days ago. Mr.. Niece
Il len is an old Santa Fe mar and fc
the past three years has been serv
a ing as stenographer in General 81
p%erintendent w. "A. brakes Office o
the s. r. P. & p, at Prescott.
Al call has just been issued n |
Paso men are notified that the legi
Iatiye boards for Texas OF the orgal
izations OF Locomotive Engineers, l.
n
connective Firemen, Railway Conduc
DDS and Railroad Trainmen will hol
n a delegate meeting in Fort Wort
"a April 4, for the purpose Of decidin
IS what policy to pursue In referene
~ 70 securing political re~presentatio
vi for labor unions. especially In legisl
tive matters pertaining to railroad
III
70 Form New Association.
Locomotive engineers from all par
Of the country, Canada and Mexic
will meet in Chicago next Saturdi
and form q general chairmen's ass
citation. The new association. III
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