Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1904-12-10


of the Santa pc rond in New Mexico.
who Naa at las Vegas the past few
days. has returned in Kansas cry. GO
spend thc holidays with his family
w. H simpson chief of the adVor
Using department 1f tnc Santa Fo
who was in the city YESTERDAY is an
0II school chum 0f Col Ralph D.
rwtchoH and the colonel and Mr
simpson had lots OF mn yesterday
telling school day jokes CON each other
% "a. Curtwright who has been act.
ne a. night depot master az Che local
station. will leave this evening for Ia
Iuuia. who're De- wU ugi as assistant
to special secret service agent ben
Williams. Joe Hudson, recently of The
90 paso police force. will succeed Mr.
Curtwrirhf az the local station
Some oft The western railroads are
experimenting with cement pillars, re.
iniorcod with iron. Tor fence posts
rmbor for fence posts and ties is bc
coming scnrrcr and more expensive
yearly Under ordinary circumstance
| fence posts last much iouEOr than
/ IIOs. but a great many posts are de-
HtrOYed annually hy fires started hy
engine sparks This means tnC uractl.
cal rebuilding of fences and in the
/ uHErorate costs the railroads an lm.
monse sum Two advantages of the
| cement or concrete posts are mat
| they will not decay ur burn.
The Denver a. Rio Grando financial
| report for October shows in detail
/ that the road is gptilng into its own
| again. The gross earnings for the
I month this year amounted 90 IN ,es2,-
\ 37S. compared with fi,G2gGs7 a year
l ago, while The expenses this year
we're g9S6.7Ot, compared with $751;
/ 96l year ago This gives the net
/ earnings this year for the month
/ g7f6.g74 as against gG3172G a year
[ ago This increase of tlOb.9lS for the
month shows thai tine road is doing
a good business and will come out ON
the right side of the ledger for the
fiscal year unless something wholly
unforeseen trauspires.
Santa 70 OH Output.
For the month OF November the San.
a FEES OH fields Iu California turned
Uut more than 100 600 barrels of oil.
Tho exact total bolng lOl sos barrels.
OF this amount the OIinda fold pro.
iuCed 1906 barrels. aud the Bakers
lucid field $3.50 barrels Tho urOduC
lion of both fields ig rapidly ON tho ln.
crease now. The Olinda field being an.
creased hy new wells, and the hakers.
HELD hy Skating the water ont oft the
wells Manager r. r. porris believes
now that he has the water trouble
. practically overcome. More wells are
being drilled al Bakersfield and the
field CeLaidorhhly enlarged
The Olindn field has the deepest
nlnoinch well in California % heine
well No 40. which is 2t35 feet deep
suylna on Large Scale.
In October the railroads ordered
equipment worth about S23.OOOOOC
. This equipment consisted Of $40 en-
glnos ana 10000 ears Of an sorts.
IN November the orders for car,
and engines ran over f25O0OOOO
The Hartman lines. for instance
ordered In the early summer hfty On
3 zines. Later adyiCeB from Mr. StubO'
! revealed the fact that millions of toni
b OF freight would DO lost 70 the sys
b tom unless they could manage q
b greatly strengthen the motive powe
b department boy the boginnlng Of thD
b spring tramc Of 1905 Consequently
p the companies are now asking specI
dcations ON 100 additional engines. q
Q cost nearly $4,000 600.
The Rock Island o. also IN the lisl
b with a demand for 1000 cars.
q a New Santa Fe Feeder.
u Is rumorod that a railroad Us q
n bo built from the main line of th
ID Santa re Of or near Powell. following
10 the abandoned Santa re grade, theme
o. up the valley OF the Colorado 20 Col
!. Road taking In on the line the camp
10 Of vivian and Silver Creek. says th
Klueman Miner. The line win b
IA about forty miles in length an
b. standard guaFo The section of coul
& try on the west side of the Blue Ridg
mountains Il go far developed and
forging ahead so rapidly that a raj
road connecting with the main line
,r necessity. % Is expected that Oh
line will pass up on the mosas aho,
10 Fort Mohnve and that "a diatrihutiu
or point for the mines of the Union Pa
'k section win bo established. IL is We
h. known that froighis can be shipp'
ie from Los Angeles and San Francis'
ie into Arizona at a cheaper rate than
n- Needles. which makes a terminal
Powell iuost desirable AZ preset
r. carload shipments for Needles
b. billed to Melen and then switched o
Is. 20 Needles to get the heneht OF Al
m zona rates. Many OF the mining COZ
B; panIes of San Francisco district "a
*. working for direct connection with q
A. santa BE- aud appear to- have The m'
.e' Ter wcE in hand
le No More auMsrLna.