Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-03-06
RAILROAD NEWS

'"V 'uiou passenger htullOu u
Sioux City, and the railroad terminals
passed into possession OF the GreaI
Northern railroad company Friday
The price paid va tl.250.OOO.
General Manager Sullivan of tn,
Missouri. P~acifc-rron Mountain ant
Assistant General Manager Higgin.
are making an inspection trip ovel
the southern lines OF the Iron Noun
tain system.
r. b. Reyes, q prominent settler
aged seventy-six. died recently al
Richview, III. MI. Keyes was thu
oldest station agent on the entire III
inois Central. having served thirty
eight years at n point. +,
Surveyors are cunning a line fol
the extension OF the Midland Valley
road from Its present terminus at Ar
kansas City. 1t 10 rumored that the
,road Is pushing for connection with
the Union Pacific at Mcpherson.
Wages Of about 500 firemen ON the
Illinois Central railroad have been In
creased by from ten to thirty cents a
day. firemen of locomotives with cyl
inders ver eighteen inches In diam
eter and fremen OF switching engines
sncn,xtrn shn hiUha~ SCALA
A jury gave John Wren. a grain
merchant sof Deunquat, Ohio. $4,000
damages against the TOledo-Ohio
Central railway. for alleged discrimi'
- ..ion. He claimed that the railroad
furnished him no cars for three
months, and he was unable to ship
grain.
1t was announced yesterday that
the Mobile. Jackson & Kansas City
railway will be operating through
trains over the system from Mobile
to Middleton, Tenn, within the next
thirty days, 1t being the present plan
to inaugurate the service on April !.
The distance is $40 miles.
Next Thursday western traffic men
will meet to discuss sugar rates.
Gulf lines are contending that their
rates to the Missouri river from the
gulf ports, which is t%wenty-four cents.
is out Of line with the rate of fifty
cents enjoyed by the Pacific coast
lines to the same territory.
viii Kilgore, who Is assisting in
the work of weighing the mails for
Uncle Sam between La Junta and
Kansas City, took a tumble a few
DAYS ago while making a hurry up
sprint for breakfast at Hutchinson,
and sprained his right wrist. He
viii not be able to handle mail sacks
for a week or more. and has return
ed home to La Junta to recuperate at
this end Of the line.
Work on the railroad bridge at
Swink for the Holly Construction
company was commenced last Mon
day morning. Contractor Whitescar.
yer has seven camps established in
the Holbrook country, and he is Of
the opinion that the first eighteen
miles OF railroad which he has con-
tracted for at that end OF the line
viii be completed inside Of thirty
Gays.
The Missouri and Pacific Railway
will entend from Luka to Dodge CITY
the line OF the Denver, Memphis &
Atlanta running from Conway Springs
to Luka. This will open up to the
Missouri Pacific the wheat lands OF
Pratt, and Kiowa counties In Kansas.
Officials of the company are now 60
ing over the route to secure rights
or way and construction will begin as
soon as they have completed their
work.
As a result Of political pressure,
the six railroads party to the agree
ment to discontinue observance OF
the maximum rate law fixing freight
rates on oil, have reconsidered the
matter and decided to make no
change In the rates. With this de-
cision comes the announcement from
w. r. Smith, general solicitor for the
Santa Fe. that the railroads will go
before the legislature, show that the
present rates are c%onfscatory and ask
an amendment to the law permitting
a higher charge for the transportation
Of oil.
In a meeting OF the passenger Of
ficials OF the Ohio railroads. held at
Chicago, It was unanimously decided
to nut the two-cent tariff In erect
II was also decided to reduce all
transportation within the state to =
two-ccnt basis, and to retain the
1.OO0.mile mileage book. The latter
will continue to be sold at $50. with
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