Albuquerque evening citizen., 1905-09-04
EXTENDING MILLIONS
FOR IMPROVEMENTS
Santa Fe Building Miles OF
Double Track On Its
System
BUYS $4,000 TONS OF RAILS

Between $4,000 600 and S7000,0OO
is being expended this year by the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway
in the way of improvements to the
road, particularly in the way of eX-
tending the double track system. A
good deal of this money is being spent
in Kansas and New Mexico, notably
some 100000 for a new grain eleva-
tor at Argentine and a great sum for
double-tracking on the Emporia cut
off. This cutoff runs to Holiday, and
fftv-three miles of double track are
being laid on it. In fact, the work on
the cutoff is about completed, as is the
work on the new elevator.
Double tracks are also being laid
from Chicago to Joliet, a distance OF
eleven and one-half miles; from Joliet
to lie Moyne, a distance of twenty
eight miles: from Herman to Streator,
a distance of five miles, from Streator
to Acona, a distance of six miles;
from Shopton to Nixon, Iowa, eight
miles: from Bucklin TO Rothville, in
Missouri, fourteen miles; from Har-
den to Camden, in Missouri, eleven
and one-half miles; from Florence to
Braddock. in Kansas, fifteen miles.
Work has been completed on the
double track between Jansen, Colo,
and Lynn, New Mexico, a distance of
ten miles. This gives the road a COM
plete double track from Trinidad to
Ration. A lot OF money is also being
expended by the road in putting in
new sidings, revising grades and i'm
proving the balasting of the roadbed,
ROCK ISLAND TESTING
NEW VAIL DEVICE.
John SEBASTIAN passenger trathc
manager of the Rock Island, has made
the announcement that a satisfactory
device for discharging mails from
high speed trains, for which postot1ce
officials have been searching for more
than seven years, has at last been dis
covered. and following repeated tests
is now in daily use on one of the Rock
Islands fast mail trains in Iowa. The
instrument. which is known as the
Burr mail catching and delivering de
vice, consists of a platform arranged
in the car door, on which the sacks
of mail to be delivered are placed
Contact between the Crane on the sta
tion platform and a trigger on the
mail catching arm on the car, puts
the mechanism in operation, WnlcI
elects the mail into a receiving boz
placed at he side of the track, so con
structed that the air is forced into
either end by the momentum OF the
pouch. and thus acts as a cushion
preventing damage TO the pouch OF
its contents.
The Burr device, combined with The
standard crane, can be operated eithe
to catch or deliver mail. The Rocl
Island has done much in the past few
years to- facilitate western mail sery
ice and I'm affording opportunity TO
the development of the new device
has given valuable aid to the post
Office department. Mail is being reg
ularIv delivered by tue new deyic
from the Rock Islands fast COLORADO
mail at Anita, Adair Casey, Stewar
and Dexter. Iowa. The saving of tim
is fractional ar each station, but whe
the device is I'm full operation on al
mail cars i'm the country it is believe
n will result I'm establishing new rec
ords for the movement of long di:
tance mails, and also extend the fas
mail service TO many cities and town
now served only 10y local trains,