Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-03-29
WORK TO BE STARTED SOON
ON THE GREAT SIERRA TUNNEL
1t Will Be About $4,000 Feet in Length and
Will Cost Millions Of Dollars-Does
Away With Snow Sheds.

the only Improvement over the old
cur IL the fresh paint.
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Robert Hughes has resigned his pc.
sllion as the Southern Pacific bag.
gage master at Deming, and has gone
to I'll Pasoo. Charles Leirleimer suc
ceeds him at Deming.
lOosened rock In the Ration tunnel
fell with a crash yesterday rs No. l
passenger train was passing through
the big bore. breaking four window
panes In the tourist car.
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Mrs. Lowell. wife of Arthur Lowell,
superintendent of motive power on
the Santa Fe, Is at the Alvarado
hotel In Albuquerque accompanied by
Miss Hazel Ristun of Topeka.
l.. b. Miller, a former passenger
conductor on the Santa Fe, was In
Needles the other day. He was re-
turning from a trip through the Gold
field and Bullfrog country by way Of
Las Vegas, Nevada.
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A brake beam on O Pullman car OF
Saturday mornings east bound train
was found broken when the train ar.
rived at Needles and the train was
delayed nearly an hour before the
necessary repairs were made.
Elmer Shear, the Santa Fee engineer
who was recently hurt in the Ration
tunnel. will leave Trinidad soon for
the east on a visit, and will be &C.
%companied by his wife. Mr.. Shear
will not be able to work for at least
a month.
W. B. CLARION, Of the national tele.
graphone company, has completed the
installation of the telegraphones on
Santa Fee Central. There are now fif-
teen instruments placed in stations
and blank sidings, and three are in
use on trains.
James w. Christal, the locomotive
engineer who has been long in the serv-
ice of the Santa Fee, left for Winslow,
Arizona last evening. accompanied by
his wife and daughter, Miss Belle
Christal. Engineer Christal has been
running between Winslow and Gal
/ lup since 1898.
George S. McCabe. a son of James
B. McCabe. a locomotive engineer
who ran out of Needles for several
years but about six years ago remov-
ed to Fresno, is in Needles on his
way to the Gila, Globe & Northern
railway of Arizona, where he will en-
enter the employ of the company.
S. A. Sperry. employed by the Col
orado & Southern at Trinidad, Colo.
for the past six years as brakeman
and extra conductor, died of lung
trouble at San Diego, Cal. whittier he
was accompanied by his son about
ten days ago. The body will pass
through here for Trinidad tomorrow
afternoon.
The Denver & Rio Grande is distri-
buting an interesting pamphlet en-
titled "The Opening of the Unintah
Indian Reservation which has just
been issued for the Rio Grande's use.
Some valuable information is contain
ed in the pamphlet, and already a
large demand has arisen for the book
let by those contemplating a trip to
the reservation.
The Needle Eye says: F. r. viii.
liams, who has been the division
storekeeper for the Santa Fe at
Needles for The past three or four
years, left this week for his old home
at Las Vegas. New Mexico. where he
accepts a like position with the San
ia Fe at that point. w. II. Phillips
Of Bakersfield succeeds Mr.. Williams
as storekeeper at Needles.
The directors of the FL Paso-D Duran
60 railroad met in Santa Fee last Fri.
day. The only business transacted
was the adoption of the route between
Pennington. New Mexico. and the
Santa Fee Pacific tracks In Mckinley
county as outlined by the chief engin.
eer. The following directors were
present at the meeting: A. L. Hawley,
FL PasO. Texas: Charles Mills, Nor.
enci, Arizona: Charles A. Spiess and
Stephen B. Davis of Las Vegas. W
F. Crane of New York City. represent.
ing the Ell Paso E. Southwestern rail