Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-05-21

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City 4 Mogollon railroad by being
crushed while coupling two cars. Is
IN q very serious condition at the
Sisters hospital In Silver City, and Is
not expected TO live.
The r.. r. 4 8. w. has put on Its
summer excursion rates TO Cloud.
croft The round trip fare for parties
going from Ell paso TO spend several
weeks or months at C~loudcroft Is S..
For those going up Saturday and
returning Monday the rate Is 81.
Another party Of capitalists and
prospective investors In the Kansas
City, Mexico 4 Orient railway win
arrive In FL Paso tomorrow. Presi.
dent +. A. Stiiweli of the Orient will
be In charge OF the party. The usual
trip TO Mexico City will be made and
the party will be entertained I'm true
Stilwell fashion.
st Work will be commenced by the
Mexican Central within the next few
weeks relaying Its tracks between
Chihuahua and Juarez. The present
rails will be taken up and new seven
ty+fiye pound rails put In their place.
After the work between Juarez and
Chihuahua has been completed other
divisions OF the road will be laid
with heavier steel.
Il The Santa Fe. the Erie, and other
roads have adopted steel cars for the
mail service, and the Santa Fe Is
also having fifty steel underframe
smoking cars built. One Of the main
factors In converting the railroads
to the use of steel In the passenger
service is the material saving In the
loss of life. The greatest railway
fatalities occur In the smoking cars,
but with steel frames the fatalities
are greatly reduced and frequently
prevented.
=, in eeland, vice president Of the
Pan-American railroad, has receiy-
ed from the government $780, 900.
the subsidy agreed upon In the con-
cession granted to the Pan-American
railroad for Its line between Pijijia-
pam and Tonala which was but re-
Gently completed and Is now being
operated. The amount was given to
Mr.. Neeland In Mexican government
8 per cent bonds which are nov quot
ed one ond one-fouth per cent above
par value. The bonds have been de.
posted by Mr.. Neeland with the Uni
ted States Banking company.
Nine years ago Judge w. a. Hines,
Of Trinidad, brought to this city his
nephew, Walker D. Hines, of Louis
vile. Ky, who wanted to see the
west. Young Hines lived In that city
for two years. during most of which
time he was s~tenographer for Judge
4ldwell Yeaman. He was recognize
ed as a most promising young man,
and his early promise has borne fruit
In the announcement which comes
from Louisville that he has been Sc
lected as general counsel for the San
Ia Fe railroad at q salary Of SIS. 600,
q years-Trinidad Advertiser.
The first railroad grade work In
the west to be done By electric light
has been started on the Lane cut
Off west OF Omaha. where the Union
Pacific has finished stringing ten
miles OF electric light wires and has
begun working during the entire
twenty-four hours of the day, two
shifts Of men being employed. The
Lane cutoff Is the heaviest piece Of
work the Union Pacific ever did,
and the construction OF It's ten miles
viii cost about two million dollars.
All the work Ii III dirt. When com
pleted there will be : saving Ia dis
lance 81 fourteen miles and II viii
permit the Union Pacific To run