Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-07-15

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were completed on time and at a
profit. II is said bdy competent au.
thority that he has the most thorough
knowledge OF all the details OF rail-
road construction of any man in the
west.
MIR. Lantry and Mr.. Sharp are per
sonal friends. Both are young men.
both know their business, and they
will continue to be leading factors In
the development Of the vast country
lying between the Missouri river and
the Pacific ocean.
The company's Outfit.
The LantryS Sharp Construction com.
pany's outfit is standard in every par.
%ticular. Everything Is Of the latest
make and the largest size. The equip
ment includes among its heavy i'm
plements fourteen monster locomo-
tives and l25 steel cars. 1t has two
big Ledgewood unloaders, four large
car plows. or spreaders, seven large
Bucyrus steam shovels. with the
necessary cabooses and water tank
cars.
The company owns five large crush.
Ell plants with a daily capacity MI
1000 yards each. 1t owns a masonry
and quarry plant having 100 d1,tlcks,
equipped with horse and steam power.
There are also dozens of steam drills.
many boilers, stationary engines, con.
crete mixers, small crushers and rock
and quarry tools sufficient for a force
of 1000 men. In addition there are
200 teams with harness, carts, drag
and wheeled serapers, grading ma
chimes and dump wagons, the property
of the company.
All this plant is'now at work, start.
ing ana completing contracts in ILL.
nois, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, New
Mexico, Arizona an California.
A camp of the company Is like a
military camp and is laid out and
maintained with as much system and
care as would be exercised by sol.
diers. In years gone by the Lantry
railroad camps have been noted for
their good sanitation, and the health
of the men has been kept up to a
high standard.
Work Now on Hand.
The eompany's biggest job now Oh
hand perhaps is the filling of China
basin, a part of San Francisco bay
The old basin Is to be the terminus
Of the Santa Fe railroad in San Fran
cisco. The basin contains about fifty
five acres. To fill the basin the CON.
pany has to excavate about two mil
lion yards of rock, haul It a mile and
a quarter through San Francisco anf
deposit il in the hole.
Another unfinished contract is hi
grading. bridging and track laying o
the Eastern railroad Of New Mexico
or. more generally knosn as the b.
len cutoff, being the beginning b,
the Santa Fe company of a shorter
and much easier grade of main lin,
from Chicago to the Pacific ocean
This contract amounted originally 4
about s1,250,00O. About two-thirds d
the work Is done-the first fifty.fivt
miles east from Belen, being the di
vide or heavy work between the Pecoi
and the Rio Grande.
The company has its crusher plant
at work on a million yards Of stoni
ballast for the Santa Fe, TO be use,
on the lines in New Mexico, Kansas
and Missouri, 1t has two large steam
shovel plants at work on the Okla
homa Eastern railroad.
The company owns extensive diman
sion stone quarries in Texas, Arizona
Illinois and Kansas which are operat
cd exclusively to supply the SAINT
Fe with stone. and material for it
oWn mason and bridge gangs.
has a large aud complete pile drivinl
and timber bridging plant, and equir
ment for putting up railroad build
ings, roundhouses. shops and dcpots
1t has been the plan and reputation
of d. Lantry Sons, as it will be will
the new company, to pay for and 50
cure the very best talent for manag
ers and superintendent. The worl
being so scattered. 1t must necessal
lily be looked after by division Or dis
trict management. A manager in 10
Angeles, for instance, has charge 9
all the work west of Albuquerque. An
other manager has charge from a
%buquerque east. There Is still an
other manager for Texas, and so OF
Each district has Its separate head
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