Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-06-13
WONDERFUL NEW LOCOMOTIVE
SOUTHERN PACIFIC WILL EX-
PERTINENT WITH NEW ENGINE

Railroad men In particular and the
public In general will be interested In
the new type Of locomotive with which
the Southern Pacific will experiment
next summer.
This particular locomotive will be
propelled by crude oil, not by burning
It to generate steam. but explosiyely.
II Is expected that a locomotive pro-
PEELED by petroleum will attain a
speed OF 100 miles an hour, and. as
1t would not have to stop to take
water, II Is claimed that enough oil
could be carried for q run Of more
than 5000 miles. In other words, the
locomotive could haul q train from
New York to San Francisco without
a stop.
This locomotive, 1t Is explained, Is
the natural outcome OF the success
that has been attained with stationary
engines working on the principle of
v%aporization, and which use refined
petroleum for fuel.
Whether crude oil will be as effect.
i've as the refined product remains to
be seen, but the engineering experts
OF the Southern Pacific confess no
doubts on the subject.
II this pioneer locomotive is sue
cessful 1t will result In a decided de-
crease In the operating expenses of
the road.
Tho southwest Is rich In petroleum
fields, and II power can be oh.
kot~Al frN,1 n va11N% 80 oil vyapNvtDnd
and made to drive a piston by explo.
sion than Is afforded by using it as
fuel under a steam boiler, 1t will be a
much more economical method Of gen.
Grating power.
1t is, in fact. this economy in Oper-
ating expenses that appeals to rail.
road men, and If the locomotive now
building is a success, there is nc ques-
ton but that it will re~vOlutionize rail-
roading-particularly in the west In
the east, however, the prevailing idea
among railroad men is that the next
important innovation will be the cleo
trical. locomotive.
The Hopi House at Grand Canyon.
"A SIlOTl ulSiduCt HUH I'll wal, thC
Santa Fe's new hotel at Grand Can
yon, is the Hopi house. Not a COM
peting hotel, but a stone and adobe
structure. for all the world like an
Indian pueblo: and so it is, in minia-
ture. If you ever attended the snake
dance at Oraibi you may have seen
on a side street the original of this
picturesque building. n
Those quantity CARRIED Indians on
the housetop hail from Wolpi; per-
haps you are so fortunate as to see
Nampeyo, the most noted pottery
maker in all Hopiland.
Here are Hopi men, women and
children, busy with their odd handi-
crafts. These gentle folk live in rooms
little and low, as BELTS their small
statured occupants. They are max
ing "pjiki" (Indian bread), or twin
ing the raven black hair Of the girls
in big side whorls, or building sacred
affairs. or mending moccasins-doing
a hundred un-American things.
It is almost as good as a trip to
the province of Tusayan, the land OF
the snake dance, and much more com
Portable. for there is no desert to
cross. =.
In adjacent "hogans" are tall, tact.
turn Navajos, smooth-faced and keen
eyed Bedouins. Ellie, of Canada, the
most famous blanket weaver OF the
Nayaios, now makes her headquarters
at the Grand Canyon.
A band of Supais, wandered from
their Cataract Canyon home, will OF
fer O a basket. or entreat you to
look at one of their babies blinking
in the wooden cradle IN its mothers
back.
These three tribes belong to the
Grand Canyon region and are a great
attraction for Canyon visitors.
Wireless T%elegraphy or Alton Line
Wireless kilograms were sent to
and from the "Alton limited" train
Thursday when it was running at the
rate of a mile a minute from Chicago
to st. Louis. So satisfactory was the
test that President FELTON, has de
cided that all passenger trains on the
Chicago & Alton railroad shall be
eauipped to send and receive wireless
messages.
The experiment was conducted by
the officials of the American De For
est Wireless Telegraph company. The
transmitting wires were strung along
the top of the train and the instru
ments were installed in the observa
ton car. where DR.. De Forest was In
charge. With him were General Pas
senger Agent George ]. Charlton and
a number of other Alton officials
The main object of the Alton roaf
in euuipping its passenger trains fo'
receiving and sending wireless mes
sares is to still further decrease thu