Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-03-23

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the FL Paso yards. Is on leave Of
absence and c, l. Reddick has taken
his place,
President T.. II. Hartman Of the
Southern aud Unioa Pacific IL SO.
iourning at Lakewood. N. j., taking
u course OF hydropathic treatment.
J. A. Young, operator In the dis
patcher's office OF the Southwestern
at Douglas, Ariz, has resigned and
Operator Ellison, formerly night oper.
ator at hermanas, has taken his
place. J. A. Scott has been sent to
Hermanas to relieve Mr.. Ellison.
Chairman r., r. Yoakum OF the
Rock Island. Frisco executive com.
mIttee has returned to 81. Louis after
a trip into Mexico and the south
west. He affIrms the announcement
that the Rock Island has no intention
ton of building into Mexico at pres
ent.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has served notice on the South
ern Pacific and Santa Fe roads and
their connections to answer the com.
plant OF the Howard Milling com.
pany OF Wichita. Kas.. which asks
that the di~fferential Of 10 cents per
hundred pounds on wheat shipments
from Missouri river points to Califor-
MIA, AZ compared with flour ship
ments be reduced to 5 cents.
The Tucumcari News says: It
seems that %Sunnyside Is destined to
become a deserted village, The Santa
Fe Railway company has decided TO
bull a town at old Fort Sumner,
which, It is said, Is a much de-
sirable place than the Sunnyside
township, and will lend whatever aid
in the power Of the company to make
the old fort the principal town on the
line In that locality.
Clarence H. Clark. who died In
Philadelphia last Tuesday at the age
of 73 years. was largely Interested
In railroads In his younger days. 1t Is
related that one morning he walked
into the office of the banking firm
of which he was a member. and cas-
ually remarked to his partners: by
the way, | vas In New York yester-
day, and 1 bought control OF the Nor
folk & Western He had q habit
of doing big things on his " re-
sponsibility. and calling on his part
ners to ratify his rash acts later.
Frank j. Thomas, general sales
agent for the st. Louis. Rocky Noun
tain & Pacific railway. the new road
which is building from the Colorado
Southern across Colfax county to the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad. says
that steel is being laid on the new
road and the close Of the month viii
see it almost completed from one ter
minal to the other. The st. Louis,
Rocky Mountain & Pacific owns the
larger part Of the coal fields Of Col
fax county and are preparing to do a
large coal and coke guinness. A
large number of new coke ovens are
now in course of construction.
In connection with a report to the
legislature regarding the number OF
accidents on steam railroads in Illi-
nois, the railroad commission OF that
state SAYS that 1t adopted a rule last
year to prevent %interurban tracks
from crossing steam roads at grade,
and the board says that many apptl-
cations for grade crossings have been
refused. The board advocates q
block system on all railroads. The
number Of persons employed on ILL
nois railroads in 1905 was 1l5.441 an
increase. OF s,617 pver 1904. The com
mission appAAas FOR closing ffcss Tor
the protection OF trainmen.
Civil Engineer George c. Franklin,
Of the Colorado & Arizona railway.
and q corps OF surveyors arrived IN
Holbrook last week from the south.
eru end Of the county, where they
had been looking over their work
of last year for the purpose Of select
ins one Of three routes. This com'
psny expects to begin building on
their right Of way north Of the Santa
Re line, within the next thirty days.
They win probably . the Santa
Re At q point about twelve miles west
az Defiance station, o Milky H0'
low, Hay Hollow. psss through Snow
flake, Adair and Forest Dale and con-
meet with the Southern Pacific at
Talklai.
The only item in the appropriation
ttll for the postal service upon which
the house committee on postoffices
and postroads was not a unit was the
subsidy OF s4s7.o 900 for the continu
apce Of the fast mail train on the
Southern railway from WASHINGTON
To New Orleans. leaving Washing
ron at 8 a. m. daily. This IL the only
direct subsidy paid to any railway
1890 fcr fost mail sol vice. but III