Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-07-28
The PROPOSED PAN.
AMERICAN RAILWAY
A Failure.

n Failure. i
A. e. Mcfarland and o. Weninstad,
civil engineers who are just now
working in New Mexico on private
business, were in Albuquerque yes
terday for the day in the course of a
trip through the territory. says the
Journal. With other engineers
throughout the west they have been
I watching the Santa FEES tremendous
undertaking in filling the China basin
to form terminals on the San Fran
cisco side Of the bay across from
Point Richmond, for which the land
was dedicated to them by the state
of California. According to Mr.. Me
FarIand, il is now generally under
stood throughout the coast state that
the great engineering scheme has
been abandoned by the railroad COM
pany and that the land will be return
ed to the state.
The China basin plan has already
cost the Santa Fe company millions
of dollars. Contractors have been at
work making the great fill for more
than two years and sometime ago it
was announced that the work was
nearing completion. The current re-
ports now, however, are to the effect
that the land which has been built
in is shifting and that the engineers
have literally failed to find bottom.
This being true the company will
have invested an enormous sum of
money in an interesting engineering
experiment. The plan contemplated
nothing less than the cutting down of
a mountain and its dumping into the
Pacific. The Pacific apparently has
been big enough to hold the mountain
and several more like it.
Business Will Boom.
Passenger business on the Santa Fe
system has been rather quiet for the
:. past few weeks, owing to the let up
In rates and the hot weather, but the
|, business promises to boom next
i month and to surpass all records for
, the month of August. According to
the present schedule there will be
, thirty-fiye special trains through Las
{ Vegas for the Pacific coast during
the next thirty days. These specials
{ are chiefly to carry delegates to the
' big convention in San Francisco, on
of which, the knights Templar con
clave, will draw thousands, while ad
ditional thousands are expected to *
e to the Odd Fellows meeting. TIL,
special rates which will be in fore,
during the month on account of thes,
d events will draw additional thousand.
of tourists and ~homeseekers and ther,
will be plenty for the railroad com
a pany's motive power to do. TraffI,
e TO the west continues heavy, although
there has been a decided let UP II
n east bound travel during July.
! Early Tuesday morning the fore
, man of a construction gang workin,
on the Santa Fe,. a few miles west o
g Albuquerque, discovered that a ca
- - - ~ $50. -=< EE
OF coal attached TO the work trail
! was 0 nfire, and aroused the member
! of the gang to fight the blaze. I'll
!, flames had gained too great headway
:, however, and all that could be don
was to switch the car from the res
Of the train and allow it to burn. bot'
the car and contents were entirel
consumed.
There are but eight union machir
? lists left In Alamogordo. All the otf
ers who walked out during the recen
strike have found positions els,
Y where.
n Conductor George w. Hill of tn
le Denver & Rio Grande road has bee
transferred to his old run from ALI
" mosa to Santa Fe.
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