Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-08-08

and Ontario Power Company, which
is said to be controlled BY the Wander
bilt-Andrews syndicate which has re-
recently purchased Two electric roads.
The purposed power plant at Mag
ara would enable the Nanderbilts to-
equip all of their Niagara frontier ter
minals with electricity and thereby
solve a problem which has been both.
ering them for several years.
The Sierra Madre, Yaqui river and
Pacific passenger train which eft
Ell Paso Saturday morning a into
a washout about twenty kilometers
this side Of Casa Grandes, a station
called Colotis. and five cars were de-
rallied. No one was killed. but the
fireman was seriously hurt. The
wrecking crew was sent pat from
Juarez.
An El Paso aud Northeastern train
ran into a washeut at Jarilla, n. NJ,
Saturday morning and the engine and
one car we're derailed. Ne n vas
hurt. Traffic was delayed for several
hours.
The train wire of the Santa Fe Ger.
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week damaged by the heavy rain
storms and lightning, IS still out q
service, but repairs are being male
| AS rapidly as possible, The service
of the commercial telegraph com.
panies and the local telephone equip
ment was interrupted, but not SER
iously, ..
The road bed of the Santa Fe Cen
trial railway just west Of the santa
Fe depot is being filled In with Gin
ders from the %company's local pit.
The improvement has been needed
for some time, but on account Of ii.
scarcity of ballast nothing has been.
done until this week.
The board Of directors Of the Atchi.
son, Topeka & Santa Fe met in New
York Wednesday, but ~ was announc,
ed that only routine business. had been.
discussed, and that there was no dis
~cussion whatsoever as 10 The election
of d successor 10 Paul Morton, former,
ly second vice president, who was re.
Gently appointed secretary Of the
navy.
j. Il. Pifer and wife of San Marcial,
have gone to the Jemez hot springs.
| Mr.. Pifer is one Of the oldest passen.
ger engineers on the Rio Grande diyt-
sion. Long service at the throttle and
the Jar of the locomotive has caused a
stiffness to settle in Mr.. Fifer's bones.
and this he hopes to leave in the
health giving waters Of the Jemez
springs.
Alexander Struthers has been ap.
pointed master mechanic of the Moi.
fat road. His headquarters will be
~ Trtnh Inncfinp . &&%
Mr.. Struthers has had thirty years
experience in charge Of mechanical de.
partments in railroads in various parts
OF the country. He has been recent.
Nv engaged at Douglas, Arizona, as
master mechanic. For many years he
held that position for the Colorado &
Midland, the Denver & Rio Grande,
and before its consolidation the Rio
Grande Western.
Work was begun on the short line
Of railroad, which win connect the
Santa Fe Central railway with the
Hagan coal field. Engineer Farwell
OF the Santa Fe Central is superin.
~, tending the work. Work in the Hagan
coal fields is temporarily at a stand.
still, the teams having been taken
away to grade the railroad.
The Rock Island expects TO have
the s~urfacing of It's new st. Louis
Kansas City line finished so their
service can be inaugurated over the
entire line by August Is. AZ present
all Is In readiness except a portion ~
the track which has not been surfaced.
Five men, with two teams, left San.
IA Fe for Moriarty, where they have
accepted positions on the proposed
line Of the Albuquerque Eastern rail-.
way. Twenty men have gone from
Santa Re 70 that point this week.
There Is a report In circulation thas