Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-04-25
Track and Train


Mr., and Mrs. Merton Bunnell left
yesterday on No. / for their honey
moon They will travel 1 month
through the southwest.
Joe Hausen has asked for a con-
tract with Inc company TO DO service
as fireman. His application Is accept
ed ana his name IS UP for duty today.
Fireman Mckenzie is back from the
east where he has been doing tempo
rary service. He was loaned TO Ration
last december and from Ration went
to Kansas.
President james. O'Connell Of the
International Order Of Machinists, Is
at Denver and has addressed a mon
ster mass meeting at the Gettysburg
building. There are still rumors Of
strike, but yesterday there was moth
ing definite which could be learned
from the machinists. There r some
who say that the strike will surely
come in a few days and some who
boot the idea, and still another con.
sentative element who say nothing.
Railroad Projects.
Continuous building on Canadian
Northern.
The building Of the Lucin cut-off
on Southern Pacific and other extern
siye work on that system.
Building of river division of Iron
Mountain and limited work on the
main line Of the same road.
Extension to Toledo and Milwaukee
BY Grand Trunk. Expenditure OF
many millions on main line.
The. Atchison line from Albuquer-
que to Texico or some other point
and the Paul's valley cutoff.
yerg heavy improvement work on
Erie including new terminals in Jer-
sey CITY and new local route.
The extension Of the Great Western
into Omaha and Sioux City and the
double tracking Of a part of that Sys-
tenn.
Atrhison Plan to build into north
ern California bY purchase Of lumber
roads and construction Of connecting
links.
Nearly n .00o, 900 of work on Cana.
dian Pacific in addition 70 purchase
81 Calgary and Edmonton and other
small lines,
Glenwooi extension of the 500 line
about $40 miles to Manitoba border
RELAXING Of main line Of same road
with 70-pound rails.
Completion Of Cumberland cutoff
on Western MARYLAND, Pittsbnrg ex
tension of Wheeling and Lake Erie
limited work on terminals at Toledo
etc.
Rock Islands extension westward
from Amarillo, the line from st. Louis
TO Kansas City. heavy improvements
o. the Iowa division and the terminals
at Chicago.
Activity In the work Of railroad ex
tension has by no means abated
Among the more important of those
that + now being prosecuted are
The following:
Brownsville line OF Frisco. cutoff
from st. Louis to eastern Illinois, re
Mobilization Of Louisiana and Arkans
as and Choctaw' and Arkansas, term
mails at New Orleans.
Heavy Improvements on Baltimore
and Ohio and Pennsylvania lines east
Of P%ittsburg, including terminals at
New York, new yards in Pittsburg ter.
ritory, lake terminals at Lorain, etc.
Many local lines of Louisville and
Nashville. partly designed to assist in
the economical handling Of Nashville
AMI Chattanooga traffic and the trade
toward the southern Alabama and
Florida territory.
Double tracking of Union Pacific
main line from Omaha to Ogden. Sur.
yeys for %Bellingham Bay and British
Columbia from Spokane to Whatcom
with possible extension to Seattle. Sur.
yeys for new lines in Oregon.
Purchase Of Bellingham Bay and
Eastern BY Nortern Pacific, building
OF new local freight lines at Seattle
by Northern Pacific, extension Of
Great Northern local system in Wash
ington. Extension OF Great Northern
Eniny