Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-28

The Southern Pacic and Santa Fe
are ARRANGING TO lock horns In a death
struggle for the control OF the green
fruit shipments from Sacramento
river points, says the San Francisco
Chronicle. Prior 10 last year the
Southern Pacific enjoyed a monopoly
OF the heavy traffic from the river
fruit districts, but the field proved
such a tempting one that The Santa
Fe chartered a river boat and succeed.
ed in diverting In the neighborhood
OF 1000 cars of green fruit shipments
from the Southern Pacific to it's own
line, The fruit was loaded at var
ious river POINTS below Sacramento
and taken to Antioch, where it was
placed In refrigerator ears and shipp.
ed TO the eastern markets over the
Santa Fe.
This year the Santa Fe has been
planning to go after the business with
greater vim than ever. and the traffic
officials of the company are figuring
on handling not less than 1900 car.
loads Of green fruit. A new river
boat. peculiarly adapted to the needs
of the service, has been built and is
now lying at the foot of Spear street.
where the boilers and machinery will
be installed during the next few days.
The boat is Ito feet long, has three
decks, is designed for speed and will
have a carrying capacity of 600 tons.
The new boat will be put in commits
sion as soon as fruit begins TO move
from river points and will be kept
busy carrying fruit from The orchards
along the Sacramento river to its cars
at Antioch.
With a view TO stopping this en-
enactment of the Santa Fe on what
it has always regarded as It's excll-
sive preserve. the Southern Pacific
is planning to build a rail line through
the section now reached only by the
river boats of the two companies. The
Southern Pacific took over yesterday
the corporation known as the Sacra-
mento Southern Railroad and reor-
ganized it with the following officers:
President Z. f. Calvin; vice president
and treasurer, Captain n. T. Smith:
secretary, ]. l.. Wilcutt. This COM
pany. ii is announced. will undertake
the immediate construction of a road
70 run along the east bank OF the Sac
famento river from Sacramento TO
Antioch. All necessary rights of way
for the new line have been secured,
and II is said that the construction of
the road will be rushed to completion
as speedily as possible.
Engine Goes Over ~Embankment.
Joseph Richter and Fireman Geo.
Morton were instantly killed and
horribly mangled as the result OF the
Santa Fe engine. pulling passenger
train No. s, going over the bank with
three baggage cars, about eighteen
miles west of Ashfork. Ariz., at S
o'clock Monday morning.
The last baggage car to leave the
track broke the coupling with the car
following and the emergency brakes
stopped the passenger coaches in time
to prevent their following the engine
one hundred feet down the embank.
ment.
Except for a sever shaking up, The
escaped unhurt. Engineer
Richter left Seligman ten minutes late
with the train bound eastward. When
thew struck the grade and sharp
curves between Crookton and Gleed
he was trying to make up lost time
Heavy trains Sunday morning had
softened the roadbed and when the
engine struck 1t on a sharp curve
the rails gave way and ii shot out over
the bank.
Russell Bridges, late OF Santa Isl
has been appointed day foreman OF
the Alamogordo shops. He and MS
family will make their home there.
49,
Oil will be employed as fuel upon
the Sonora line of the Southern ia