Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-29
GOT CHILLY GREETING
AT COAL YARDS
Coal Equally as Scarce To.
day as Yestesday, and Only
Promises in Sight
A DEARTH OF CARi RESPONSIBLE

ITS queer. isn't IL, that AlbuQuer-
que. the hub OF n OF the greatest
coal producing districts of the coun-
try, should be utterly without enough
fuel to keep warm WITH" queried a
broad minded man this morning.
We're burning wood up our way,
as a necessity" continued the deep
thinker, ANA going TO bed early, be-
cause the wood supply is getting low. y
IT'S very strange, indeed, that with
the Clarkville and Gibson mines of
Mckinley county 1876 miles to the
west, the Cerrillos and Madrid mines
less than sixty miles to the north.
and the San Antonio mines 100 miles
TO the south, that we should be har-
raised here in the dead of winter
with a scarcity of coal. Its a shamel
It's preposterous!" exclaimed the man
who had no coal.
Il was down to the Clarkville yards
this morning, and the clerk informed
me that a car that came in during the
night only partially cleaned up the
congested order book. But | vas ask
ed to be patient, the Santa Fe had
I promised to deliver a couple more
cars tonight"
Down at the Cerrillos yards, the
greeting was equally as chilly. the
clerk there informed me that he had
no soft coal, but expected a ear in
tonight. At least he said that the rail-
road had promised to bring a car
| down from Cerrillos, but he also said
that he had orders ahead for a couple
of cars, so | ordered a load of wood.
l tell you that it's no fun carrying
wood with snow on it," Feeling salts
fed that he had covered the coal sit
uation thoroughly. the man who had
to burn wood, hailed a street car and
got aboard, saying that he believed
that he had better get home and get
some of that wood in the house be-
hind the stove before the snow, which
was then coming down fast, had it en-
tirely covered up.
Telephone messages from the coal
yards at noon showed that there was
no change IN the coal situation owe
yesterday, The Cerrillos yards were
clear out of soft coal, but they came
back with the same old story, I'VE
have lots of hard-and we have a
promise of a couple of cars tonight
One car was received at the Clark
vile yards last night, and about 200
! hOlltS NtLS Uldue DIlSnA duu happy
today, but the accumulation of orders
of the past few days were only about
half filled. John S. Beaver, manager
of the Clarkville yards, who went to
Gallup on Wednesday, to see If he
could hurry up the delivery of some
cars he had on the road, returned to
the city last night, somewhat ncour
aged. The Santa Fe claims that a
great dearth of cars, which exists all
over the road, is responsible for the
coal famine in Albuquerque. Why this
dearth of coal cars, nobody, ven the
railroad man, seems to know. How
ever. 1t is quite evident that some
thing is wrong, or else we wouldn't be
out of coal.
The situation is a good deal like
the old adage, Water, water, every
where, and lot a drop to drink" only
it's coal that's wanted and not water.
JUST RECEIVED, A LARGE AS
soRTMENT OF BULK RELlSHEs
OF ALL DESCRIPTION:
BULK STUFFED OLIVES.
BULK PLAIN OLIVES.
BULK SWEET RELISH.
BULK SOUR RELISH.
BULK HElNzE'S MlNCE MEAT.
BULK HEINzE'S APPLE BUT.
TER.
BULK GENUINE GERMAN DILL
PICKLES.
STUFFED MANGO PEPPERS, etc
THE JAFFA GROCERY CO.
Good Things to Eat"
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