Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-04-15
Track and Train

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agent for the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
way. with office at Denver, was 4 Las
Vegas visitor yesterday.
Assistant Manager Of on Properties
+. q. Ripley, is spending the week
with his parents at Santa Barbara. his
father being the president Of the San
ia Fe company.
Well drilling coutinues Il q lively
rate at olinda, csllf. seven different
rigs being in opsr1ttnn. The deepest
Of these is No. 40. Nhjoh has been put
to a depth Of 1864 ~
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Effective on, May ~. the Southern
Pacific will raise its eecond-class pas
senger rates to San F~rancvisco from
$25 to $50. The second-class rates to
Los Angeles and points this side VIII
remain SIS.
Work Is progressing OF several new
sidetracks at Grand Canyon, which
will accommodate about ten cars
each. More track room was needed
there, as traffic is getting heavier all
the time.
Charles Van Dyne, conductor on the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad, re-
turned to Santa Fe from q several
weeks trip to the City Of Mexico. and
will in a few days resume his duties
as conductor. =.
It is announced that plans have
been completed for q new Santa Fe
depot at Florence. Kansas. The old
depot at that place was burned to the
ground Ct time ago and since
them . people have been com
PEELED to content themselves with q
box car.
The new Cloudcroft booklet just is.
sued w General Passenger Agent A..
N. Brown Of the Ell Paso-Northeast-
ern system, is q beauty to behold, to
say the least. The book is well Illus
trated and also contains a world of
good reading matter, descriptive Of
that resort.
The operators on the El Paso,
Northeastern have just been success
full in getting a schedule on that line.
The new schedule provides that the
minimum paw for any operator on the
line shall be $3.50 while other Of
fees will be raised accordingly. This
means a raise of about az per cent
to the men.
W. n. Cooley. dy-water foreman
and water contractor of the Santa Fe
system, is nov located in Mexico,
where he is soon TO be joined by
George Sullivan, the agent Of the San
Ia ne at Flagstaff. They have pur-
chased a fine plantation in the land Of
the Montezumas and will take up their
residence on 1t.
w. r. Hodges, general purchasing
agent for the Santa Fe, with Office at
Chicago. passed through the city yes
terday east bound. in private car at
tached to passenger train No. 2. Mr..
Hodges has been on one Of his gen
eral trips Of inspection Of the coast
lines, and is returning to Chicago after
a two weeks absence.
The second issue Of the Earth is
out. This Is the new monthly maya
zine that Is being published at the
headquarters OF the Santa Fe in Chi
cago. This issue contains a story en-
titled why Good Land in the West
is Still Cheap" originally published In
the Saturday Evening Post. The story
is written by G. H. Matson, a Topeka
newspaper a
John p. leighton has resigned his
position as an employee Of the black.
smith department Of the Albuquerque
railway shops. and has gone to Ala
magordo, where he will connect him
self with the shops there Of the II
Paso & Northeastern road. Mr.. Leigh
ton has been an employe Of the shops
for seventeen years, and Is therefore
an old.timer. Many friends regret to
have him leave the city. Mrs, Leigh.
ton AMI two children will remain 10
albuquerque until MI. Leighton gets
settled q Alamagordo.
To Rebuild Freight Depot.