Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-06-10
Santa Fe Appointments.

Santa Fe Appointments.
Following the appointment of c. M.
Buck as office engineer of the Santa
Fe, succeeding G. w. Smyser, comes
the appointment of II. w. Wagner as
division engineer Of the Missouri divi-
sion, taking Mr.. Bucks place at Mar
celline. Mr.. Wagner has been division
engineer at Arkansas City over the Ok
lahoma division. He will be succeed
ed by w. S. Hughes of Fort Madison,
who has been doing engineering work
for the company there.
J.. r. Farwell, chief engineer of the
Albuquerque Eastern railway, left AL
buquerque for a ten days visit 10 mis-
old home at Oswego, N. Y. He will
return to the city by June 18th.
Track laying was commenced this
week on the Pennington branch OF
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad.
The rails will soon be laid in the
southern end of the first section,
which is about completed, and then
the rails will be laid just as fast as
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finished. Thus the company will be
able to haul supplies by rail and dis
pense with a great deal of wagon
work. Dhe first two bridges. the
spans Of which are respectively 80 and
$50 feet long, are being pushed and the
trusses are 10 practically compile
ted. These trusses are made of huge
timbers of Oregon pine from that
state. A narrow guage siding has
heen put in at C%arbonero. the point
where the road branches off to Farm
ington, so that supplies which are
shipped in may be unloaded there with
out being brought back to Durango
and then hauled overland.
To supply the northwest with soft
coal is the vast project Of the Rock
Island system and arrangements for
doing it are now practically completed.
Through other companies organized
for that purpose the Rock Island in
terests have secured a large number Of
mines In Illinois and Indiana, have
thousands of acres of ~undeveloped
coal lands, and have options on other
lands. 1t Is now known that the Rock
Island interests were back of the Con-
sOlidated Indiana Coal company,
which was incorporated last month at
Augusta, Me-, with a capital stock of
81, 000, 900.
p. w. Zimmerman, claim agent Of
the Santa Fe. with headquarters in AL
~buquerque, has returned from a short
business trip to Topeka. While away
Mr.. Zimmerman visited Baggageman
Graham, of Albuquerque, who is ON
fined in the company hospital in that
city, and he reports that Mr.. Graham
is improving rapiuiy and will be able
to return home the latter part of this
month.
The round house basahallist5 are
limbering up arms and Strengthening
their batting eyes preparatory TO to.
morrow's game. Made bold by the ig-
nominious defeats of the Blues in the
Albuquerque series, they hope to add
more ignominy, but, boys, remember:
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup
and the lip"
Antonio Brown, the Bean Drum.
me- OF the round house social set, at.
tended the races Tuesday ~chape-uned
by a very estimable lady Of this city.
Ward McAllister in his prime could
not snuff candles for the aesthetic An.
tonic, both In dress and knowledge OF
things social.
Alfred Childs, car inspector of the
Santa FEE system Of Topeka, and Mas
ter Mechanic Hicks of Albuquerque,
left yesterday for a visit to the Zuni
Mountain railway at Thoreau.