Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-03-17
TRACK AND TRAIN

work on the rip track this week,
Engineer Wilson OF the 9O5. and
rremen Koll are off the footboard
FOR Il few trips,
Fireman W, +, Tucker quit his Job
yesterday and will accompany Fireman
Smith to 81, Louis.
Charles b., Judd, a machinist employ.
ed In the Raton shops, has come down
here 60 go 10 work,
Ed k!uscy late ste~nographer in Gen.
Supt, j, g llurley's office in Topeka,
Is now tracer clerk and extra steno-
grapher in The division superinten.
dents office In Las Vegas.
Brakeman l.. e, Trip, who had been
operated on successfully for append
citiS in the local railroad hospital.
resumed his passenger run with Con.
ductor Dick Davidson on No. ! yes
terday afternoon.
The Santa re has let a big contract to
Ransom 4 Cool, Ottawa grading cen
tractors The contract is 20 raise tie
grade in the Neosho bottom, north of
Chanute, Kansas, above high WAFER
mark and out OF flood danger.
Mrs. All. Porter has published a
card at Riverside, Calf, thanking the
officials of the Santa Fe railroad con
pany for their generosity in present
ing her husband with a pass over its
lines as a reward for tagging two
trains during a recent washout be.
tween Riverside and Coltor.
b. S. Downey, chief clerk to Train
master J.. Il. Mcmahon, has resigned
his position and will go to Mexico.
He is succeeded by Charles Stewart,
who had been keeping enginemen's
time in Division Superintendent Eas-
= ley's office, and Bert Jones of the fuel
desk takes Stewards place.
The office of general superintendent
CT the southwestern districl C the
Rock Island has been ordered moved
from Kansas City to Topeka. The in
formation that this change would be
decided upon, aud ordered was eX-
clusively announced several weeks
ago in the State Journal. The change
will be effective the first Of April.
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The Albuquerque Citizen has it
from good authority that work on the
Santa Fe cutoff will be resumed on
or about April lst. The movement of
the Lantry-Sharp Construction COM
pany also indicates that work will be
resumed in the neal future. They
have opened correspondence with
local maintenance officials of the San
Ia Fe. and there has been increased
activity among local agents for the
Lantry-Sharp company.
The Ration Reporter says: The big
social event Of the season for many
years past has been the annual grand
ball given By Hillside Lodge No. 295,
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen.
This year will be no exception to the
rule and on Friday. March II. the
opera house will be crowded. The
lodge has adyices from Las Vegas,
Trinidad, La Junta. Albuquerque, Pu-
eblo, Colorado Springs and Topeka,
that large parties will be here from
each of these towns. From the mum.
Der of rooms engaged In advance II is
quite certain that there will be about
three hundred visitors here to attend
the event.
S. p. Track in Awful Condition.
An engineer who has been on that
division of the Southern Pacific for
some twenty years tells the Lordsburg
Liberal that he has never seen the
track In such a soft and bad shape
from the rains as 1t Is now. The lin
tied cannot make its schedule time be
tween Lordsburg and FL Paso by
about w hours. II has slow orders
from Separ 10 Alden. eighty miles
because the track Is so soft that 1
Is not safe to run fast. A change II
the way the track Is now built help.
the softness. Formerly the tract,
sloped from the center out and the
water would run off. Now 1t IL leve
the full length Of the tie, and a couple
OF feet more. This change was
caused by the necessity of making
the track stronger to hold UP the
heavy engines put upon 1t. A grave
bed has beer found west of Lords
burg. near Pyramid, and the com
pany may do some gravel blasting.
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