Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-02-02
TRACK AND TRAIN.

80 WV
shop boys and particularly Machinist
Mcguire. are glad.
Machinist Frank Hockett and his
trusty helper went to Ribera yester-
day to touch up n of the mammoth
battle ships a bit.
Engineer S. Smith has brought the
745-a mighty mountain climber-in
for new fues. She was u into the
roundhouse yesterday.
George E. Sullivan, agent at Flag
star. and j. G. Milligan, chief lineman
for the company at that point, are In
Mexico on q hunting trip.
Yesterday vas the busy day for the
boiler washers, engine inspectors and
al around rustlers. it being the ap-
pointed time for the regular changes.
Mr.. McDill from Colorado was
among the boys at Alamogordo this
week, looking up the proposition for
: railroad Y. NJ. G. A. for Alamo
gordo.
The Arizona & New Mexico rail
road has a new locomotive. The ap-
pearance OF the new machine has ere
ated a sensation in that part Of the
serritory.
James Sheridan, a night machinist
N the Ration round house. had his
right ear drum fractured last week by
The sudden blowing Of q locomotive
whistle while his ear was close to the
valve.
A dispatch from Chicago to the To
peka State Journal states that the
Santa Fe will build q branch coal road
from the pueblo of San Felipe 9 a
ibis city to the coal fields near Sloan,
sixty miles away.
j. f. Cullom, day foreman of the
shops at Ration. has resigned and viii,
Nam TAYLOR is now acting as foreman.
Charles Parsons has been appointed
night foreman OF the round house
there, to succeed L. Keil.
The electric lights were turned on
last night for the first time. They
made a pleasant change in the appear
ance Of the smokey palace. The lights
we're installed by the Las Vegas Elec-
trio Light & Fuel company.
The San Bernardino Times-Index
believes that an attempt was made to
hold up the Santa Fe limited near
that place last week soon after the
express ear robbery or the Southern
Pacific. The report lacks confirma-
ton.
The Ell Paso News quotes Russell
Harding, vice-president and general
manager Of the Missouri Pacific rail-
road, as authority for the statement
that the Missouri Pacific will enter El
Paso over its own tracks before two
years are past.
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w. T.. Williamson Is a new engineer
on the +. p. at ~Alamogordo, having
arrived from Bnenos Ayres. South
America, where he ~railroaded for the
past Ave years. Mr.. Williamson car.
ries a working card from the Royal
Iiachinists or Liverpool and London.
Improvements are going on about
the shops and s%torebuilding at Alamo
eordo. Superintendent Barnes office
IS to be enlarged SO as to give him
IN individual office and an office for
each Of his two clerks. Also with
~6torekeeper Major, one large office
Tor his several clerks while he will
have a private Office.
The Santa Fe railway is putting In
q new switch at Dalton. This will
prove a great convenience to the well
diggers in that section. as when 1t is
completed they will not have to haul
their casing and coal from Artesia as
formerly. The town OF Dalton Is
gushing rapidly to the front.
j. X. Walling has been appointed
station agent for the Santa Fc railway
q Artesia and will be installed -
0 o as the necessary ONCE fixtures
and stationery are received. An agent
has been needed at Artesia for some
time, and the people Of the town are
veil pleased with the appointment.
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