Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-02-24
RAILROAD NEWS

Machinist Campbell resigned yes,
terday.
There were two sections OF No. |
yesterday.
Alderman and Martin are two new
firemen on the Santa Fe out OF this
city.
Machinist Volsky has resigned his
position In the local Santa Fee shops
and will accompany former Foreman
Perry to the Rock Island railroad.
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The Santa Fe Central railway conf.
pany officials are making prepare
,lons to deliver fifty cars of steel rails
at Willard for use on the Belen cut
off.
Machinist Helper Reyes and Boiler
maker Helper Clay Harmon drew their
pay checks on the fifteenth and have
never again shown up at the shops.
having undoubtedly left the city.
George p. Williams and his gang OF
painters last week changed the color
Of the Needles Santa Fe hospital. 1t
Is now white. trimmed with green.
and presents q much better appear
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c. r. Perry, the day round house
foreman OF the local Santa Fe shops,
has resigned his position and will 90
to the Rock Island. He has been sue.
ceeded by +. J. Priest OF San Der.
nardinO.
William NJ. Caldwell, the Wells
Fargo 4 Co.'S express agent at Ration,
is taking a leave OF absence for a
months needed rest. w. G. Line IL
relief agent during Mr.. Caldwell's alb
sence.
Boilermaker Pat Pagan OF the To-
cal shops failed to turn up on the
morning OF the Goth, and on investiga-
tion It was found that he had left
the Sunshine territory without warm
ing. A number Of business men are
mourning his sudden departure.
San Bernardino has symptoms OF a
,desire for a recreation building like
unto the one which the Santa Fe is
I building at Needles. 1t Is possible
that the railroad officials may be-
come infected and that the desires
sof San Bernardino may be realized.
Engine 1908 is again back In the
third district running between this
city and Albuquerque, after going
east for repairs after the wreck at
Romeroville. The engine is an un-
lucky one, having been in a bad head
end collision at Ojita, and also killing
its engineer at Romeroyiile.
The grade Of the st Louis. Rocky
Mountain & Pacific railway is pro-
crossing rapidly and has been practic-
ally completed to the crossing Of the
Rock Island tracks at Vermejo, Col
fax county. Late reports are to the
effect that the road will be into CT
marion, the same county, by the first
Of July next.
Work OF surveying for a narrow
gauge line of railway from Silver
City to the mining properties Of the
Commanche Mining and Smelling
company in the Burro mountains Will
commence within the next thirty DAYS
when two corps Of s%urveyofS Will be
, nut in the field to determine the most
feasible and economical route to that
rich treasure-house Of ore.
A. Edwards died In the hospital a.
Alamogordo Saturday morning. ne
made an antemortem statement to
the effect that he had been pushed
off a rapidly moving freight train,
where he was picked up by the
crew OF the passenger train, which
followed It shortly afterward. Both
legs were broken and he was intern.
ally injuered. He was attended to
by DR.. Scott, until the arrival Of the
train from the south. when ne was
sent to A~lamogord0.
A dispatch from Philadelphia says:
All previous records attained by pas.
seneer trains will be broken next
week, according to plans of leading
railroad officials. A gasoline car
which was tested q short time ago
viii make a transcontinental trip. Il
will start from New York and ID ex.
pected to reach San Francisco In
quicker time than any road has yet
been able to make by means OF loco
motives. E. H. Hartman, p. l.. Win.
chell and N. G. Brill will be among
the railroad officials making the trip.