Las Vegas daily optic., 1906-06-12

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TIE people Of San Francisco paid
! ths United railroads s7.esi.3sa laat
sear In fve-eent street cur fares
The Wabash earned In the thiri
.week of May sass.s7s. an Increase
nv~r the corresponding week Of last
kar of s3i.sis.
n, d. Gibbons has been appointed
master mechanic Of the Monterey d.
vision Of the Mexican Central 10 sue
ceed George W. Cooper, resigned.
Pennsylvania officials again have mp
for consideration reducing the run,
ming nme of the Pennsylvania special
between New York and Chicago to
sixteen hours.
The National railroad Of Tehannte
pee win soon have a double track. ,
rare thing for Mexico. The terminal
points Of this road are growing tn
commercial importance.
TnaAwreck Of a passenger train On
The Ba&gor 4 Aroostock railroad that
occurred a short time ago was the
first accident OF its kind since the
road started. twelve years ago.
No locomotives are built In the Ba,
Kan states. All the engines used on
the railways OF Turkey. Roumanta
Bulgaria. Servia. and Greece are I'm
rorsed from Germany. Austria, France
Belgium and England.
REPORTS from thirty-seeen car se''
vices associations Of this country
show an increase of 90 per cent. In
the number OF cars handled In the
orss three months Of 1906 over the
corresponding months Of 1905.
Railroad reform has at last struck
Spain. That country Is about to con,
meet her territory with the rest oil
Europe by standard guage road. anu
frelxht rates are 10 be cut to ieses
that cannot but encourage commerce.
Portions of tramway tracks In from
of hospitals and churches are to d.
paved with noiseless material by th@
London county council, and the edn
cation committee proposes that sinai'
lar material should be laid In front
of schools.
Lima. the historical capital Of Peru
L. to have a system Of electric street
railroads operated by power obtained
from falls In the Rimac river. thirt"
miles from the city. Cars used WI
he American, and so will the electric
machinery and the track.
For the purpose Of opening IN
Northern Wisconsin cut-over lands 70
farmers, a Milwaukee land company
has closed a deal for the purchase
of the Miuneanolis, st. Paul & Asa-
land railway. The road has served as
a logging line for number OF years
According to A. ". Shaw, general
{ passenger agent Of the Canadian Pa
7. eific railroad. more than 30.0a0 a"'a'
lean CITIZENS. the majority OF whom
.are native born. have gone to Canada
I. since Ionuarv 1. to find homes In the
western portion OF the Dominion.
ThssMissouri. Kansas 8 TEXAS r's''
way Snmnanv ~ awarded sha e"r'
tract for the first portion Of the w''"
far reduction cf grades IN the wa'a
limo of the evstem Thss viii c""e~
s,~,v.fsva miles os the line. extending
+ from Atoka. I. T.. to the Red river.
In recent years the construction ~
railways proceeded In Germany at fhe
rate Of about GELS miles wear. The
entire mileage exceeds ait nresent "a
! 1ss miles. The electrincation OF rail
ways Il stilI confined to few snhnr
/ han lines. where the system works
satisfactorily. y
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Inducements are heing offered hy
& Colorado Snrtnes CT. 10 the Brother
MOOD of Railroad Trainmen N hnili
Il AT that Mace an international home