Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-05-10
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Express trains nov run from Mex.
ieo City 10 50, Louis In 80 H. hours.
an average Of thirtyshree miles an
hour for i.s.7 miles.
Contracts aggregating sIs.eoo.eoo
have been awarded BY the Dominion
government for the construction OF
two sections sof the National Trans
continental railroad
The new limited train put on by
the Mobile and Ohio road between
Mobile and ST. Louis has proven very
successful. Il makes the run between
the two cities In twenty hours.
Engineer O. Young left Winslow
Friday morning for Memphis. Tenn.
to attend the biennial convention Of
the Brotherhood Of Locomotive En-
gineers. al the otictaI representative
Of the winslow Lodge. No. ia.
The gross earnings Of United States
railroads for the month Of January
showed an increase over January.
1905. of no less than s2i.s24.sss, or
2A.40 per cent. and the gain In the net
foots up sl1.67s!ss7. or 1926 per cent.
r. Erickson, q brakeman on the
Southern Pacific, was shot and fatally
wounded by q negro tramp. who was
stealing a ride and ordered on the
train. The shooting occurred at sau-
gus, Cal. The wounded man was
taken to the hospital In los Angeles.
The 500 line will start Its annual
Alaska excursions from Minneapolis
July Z. On the way to Dawson and the
Klondyke tourists will stop at BanR.
I.aggan. Field, Glacier. Vancouver,
Victoria, skagway and White Horse.
The return will be made through the
Kootenay Lake district.
The Oklahoma and Panhandle Rail.
road company has been chartered In
Oklahoma to build q line 800 miles 10
length from Altus west to the Texas
boundary, and thence southwest
through Texas to Portales. N. NJ"
and southwest from Altus TO Waurika.
Okla. The line is designed to be an
Orient railroad feeder. *,r-
A New York dispatch announces
that Victor Morawetz, chairman o.
the executive committee OF the At
Gibson. Topeka q Santa Fe. has re-
signed as general counsel, but VIII
continue to hea dthe executive com
mittee. In his place as general coun'
sci Waiter D. Hines of Louisville. KY
has been appointed. Mr.. Hines Ii .
member of the Louisville firm OF
Humphrey, Hines & Humphrey, and
was connected with the legal depart
ment Of the Louisville & Nashville
from 1901 to 1904. He will have his
once In New York City.
important railroad extensions by
Inc Cananea. Yaqui River & Pacific
railway II is believed are about to 81
begun in Arizona, according to q dis
match from Naco. and the establish.
ment Of d railroad camp with so men
and so mule teams. is thought tol
presage that the work Is to be begun
Immediately. The camp was estah.
lished Saturday about tow miles south
OF that city, and although no one who
Ii in authority will state what work
IL to be done. those who are In pos.
session Of information OF the roads
business intimate that extensions are
to be made. 1t Is stated that the plan
Is to build the Cananea road TO Fair.
banks, where 1t will connect with the
southern Pacific branch that runs
from Benson to Nogales.
Il. Il. Ball, resident engineer for the
Santa Fe, at Winslow, returned last
week from q trip In southern Mexico.
near the Guatemala border, says the
Williams News. He took a lay off
from his duties here on April 8, for A.
month. and accepted q position as en-
gineer on the Pan-American railroad.
at q salary OF $500 per month. Mex
lean money. After 4 short stay Eddie
decided that Arizona was good enough
for him. and came home. although he
was offered more money ID remain.
. stopped over at the City OF Mexico.
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