Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-06-29
MEANSF|N|SH Of THE
CUT OFF FROM
DAWSON
ROCK ISLAND LET'S GO TO
SOUTHWESTERN MONDAY
Railroad Men Say That Sale of
Tucumcari-Sant Rosa Track
Means Abandonment of New
Railroad Project,

ON Monday, July LIST, formal trans
fer will be made by the Rock Island
system to the Ell Paso and Southwcs-
tern system Of the stretch of track b.,
tween Santa Rosa and Tucumcari, N.
M over which Il has been necessary
90 raul Southwestern ears in order
to reach the Phelps-Dodge coal mines
at Dawson. Southwestern trainmen
and operators will go on at Santa
Rosa and Tucumcari, but owing to
the close relations between the two
roads for a long time past, compare
lively few changes Will be made in
The operating department of the track
to be transferred.
Railroad men said to speak with
authority are being quoted to the eff
fect that the transfer of this track
means the final abandonment Of the
proposed Phelps-Dodge Dawson cut
Oft, which has been surveyed from
Dawson to a point on the Southwest
ern main line neal Torrance. These
surveys, which had been approved and
passed through Las Vegas, would
would have resulted in the opening
of a large stretch Of territory now
only reached by trails and stage roads.
1t was said at the time the surveys
were being made that it wac part Of
a plan to force the Rock Island to
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has now been made and there seems
to be reason for the statement that
the cutoff has been abandoned.
Trainmaster Lindsey will be in
charge Of the tSanta Rosa-TucumCarl
division
John j. Byrhe, assistant general
traffic manager Of the Santa Re, with
headquarters in Los Angeles, passed
through Albuquerque yesterday on the
California limited, returning from
Chicago, where he has been attending
the rate meeting Of the traffic mana
gers of the western railroads.
6. w. Jake. who has been cashier
in the Santa Fee depot at Flagstaff,
Ariz., has resigned to take a position
with the Rabbit Brothers mercantile
house at that point.
Pat Walsh, general baggage agent
for the Santa Fe, who is well known
in Albuquerpue. has been elected
president Of the American Associa-
ton Of Baggage agents. He has Just
returned to Topeka from Portland,
Ne, where the twenty-fifth annual
convention of the association was
held.
j.. A. Kealy. a Santa Fe brakeman
from Deming, has been taken to the
Las Vegas railroad hospital for treat
ment for injuries about tho head re-
ceived from a tail from a box car
several days ago,
Santa Fe office employees in Ration
\ have been favored with a salary in
Nrease of s. per month.
N. c. Duncan, Who has been chief
clerpAto the trainmAster in Ration, has
been ~sSransferred to the maintenance
desk an Las Vegas, where he will go
on july rst.
The town c6mncil of Carlsbad has
granted a franchise, to J. L. Bell for
a railroad which Bell proposes to
finance. to be built from St Louis
TO III Paso. The roa is to be known
as the Eel Paso, Carlsbad and Eastern.
The st. Louis. Rocky Mountain and
Pacific railroad has purchased a track
automobile which will be used to
carry passengers between Cimarron
and Ute park. The car was brought
out from Chicago last week ana
tested. the tcst runs proving very sat
isfactory. The car carries twelve pas
sengers with comfort.