Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-03-09
TRACK AND TRAIN.

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Lake Baikal, Russia. are now drawn
~ horses, q locomotive which per
formed this service having broken
through the ice.
The Texas railroad commission Is.
sued a special notice Of hearing for
March Is, directed to the Santa Re
and Cotton Belt, in which certain d.
visions on milling-in-transit rates are
to be settled. The divisions complain
ii Of are out Of certain north Texas
points.
Well informed railroad men are 81
the opinion that the next two or three
years may 9 the erection OF 2 union
passenger station in the City q Mex.
leo. That such a station is q serious
need no one denies. It is insisted that
the project viii have the encourage
ment. IL not the material support, Of
the government.
A tramp, literally cut to pieces, was
found on the Southern Pacific tracks
about forty miles east of FL Paso
Tuesday by a section gang. Letters
found on his person serve to identity
him as Walter Keaks Of Fort Wayne,
snd. It is supposed that while steal.
ing q ride he slipped and fell between
the wheels Of a freight train.
A correspondent Of the Bisbee he
view. writing from Turrachachi, So.
nora. states that the railway officials
expect to nave the Nacozari railway IN
operation between Douglas and Naco-
zari about the 18th Of May The grade
has been practically finished, and the
rails laid out Of Cos for a distance OF
fifteen miles. IT is also stated by the
correspondent that as soon as w
road is completed to Nacozari i Will
be continued as far as Moctebzuma.
President L. +. Loree Of the ROCK
island system made a statement "
Nav York to the effect that his tip
over tae southern and southwestern
section Of the system covered manly
The Frisco lines. He said that he had
travelled over some $500 miles O.
Frisco right 81 way and that through
ont the southwest he had found notn
ing but prosperity and signs Of con
tinuing prosperity,
The senate committee on inter
state commerce has authorized favor
able reports on the Elkins bill, au
thorizing a large map OF the uni.e'
states TO be prepared and published
on a bill relieving narrow gauge ROAD
from ~equipping their locomotives w.
power-d. wing brakes when some on
err safety appliance is better a
to such roads, and on a bill MAXIM
he act preventing interstate transpo
tation Of obscene literature applic'
ble to foreign commerce and all teri
tory under jurisdiction Of the Unite
States.
when obstacles persist in plan,ir
themselves on the Santa Fe ma
lines IL is no wonder that the tran
Of that company are delayed once
= while. Last Monday a house whic
TO look at, n would have suppos'
To have better sense, planted itself
the i street track and tied up the ovs
land for half an hour. festerd'
morning a similar trouble delayed I
morninr local out Of Los Angeles
over W hours. AT South PasadeI
i clumsy oil tank connected to n
the big helper engines fell over us
and went across lots to the rails.
landed in a particularly mean pc
ton and as a consequence was not
moved until the local, due g arr
here at 1880, had been delayed !.
hours.-san Bernardino sun,
The Santa Fe company has pefle
ei plans for a new waterworKs q
own to supply engines at WHINE
Kansas. A pump house and tank y
be built at the round house west
the Southern Kansas bridge. The u
viii be Of steel sixty feet high, y
q stand pipe twenty-five feet higi
This will give ample pressure % 70
water through a ten.inch main TO
south station. AT that place Will
two cranes" one at each end OF
station, 50 north or south bound TT
can water without unnecessary &c
This step seems to have been eau
by an increase Of the charges oil
winfield Water company. On Jant
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