Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-06-25
SANTA FE MELONS
GROW SMALLER
IN SIZE
Big Falling Off In Dividends
Expected Expenses Have
Risen Rapidly In Past Few
Months

Providing May ana juno net earn
ingA 81 the Atchison. Topeka and
Santa Fe Railway company are ne
more favorable tina the exhibit for
April. it is apparent that the com
pflny will earn Approximately seven
and three-fourths per cent on its
present $l65. $4,000 outstanding com
mon stock for the twelve months to
end Tune so next, as compared With
12.10 per cent earned on the $121,-
$4,000 outstanding AT the close of
the last fiscal year.
The Santa Fe for the first time in
its history will show gross earnings
in excess of 500, 00O, 600, but the
roads expenses have risen percept-
IDLY during the last few months. Up
to the close of April its net was
about $1,000, 900 behind the cores
bonding period of the year previous.
although a gross gain of more han
81. 900, 900 had been scored. The
company will have spent some So
900, 600 more for maintenance this
year than during the 1903 fiscal
period.
Presents scholarship.
The Armour Institute of Technol-
Ogy, in Chicago, has given to Albert
MacRae. managing editor OF the
Santa Zee Employers Magazine, a
scholarship to be conferred upon the
apprentice who makes the best rec
ord for combined classroom and shop
work during his apprenticeship. one
scholarship will be awarded in 1910
and another in 1911, with the under
standing that, II the arrangement
proves to be perfectly satisfactory to
the Armour Institute, the Santa Fe
and the apprentices. Il yearly scholar
ship will be established. The only
condition imposed by the Armour In
stitute is that the apprentice must be
able to pass its regular entrance X
atmination.
The Santa re viii require he APP
prcnticcs to ave served at least
three years and six months of their
apprenticeship, and no apprentice
Nho will be out of his time prior to
May | will be eligible to the scholar
ship tho following September. Tho
successful candidate will be entitled
to four years free tuition and may
select any course offered by the in
stitute-viz, civil engineering. me-
ehanical engineering, electrical cngi-
ncering. chemical engineering, archi-
lecture or fine protection engineering,
Jacobs Invention Arrives.
The san Bcrnaidino sun says
The fist Au-Tra-Kah 10 reach the
Pacific coast aErEeQ pA sam Ber-
pardinO Yesterday aud is now in tho
Epcal santa FRI SHOPS where il <wilf1
undergo an o%vcrhauling before being
placed in service on the Los Angeles
division. The Au-Tia-Kah is the in
Nention Of II. w. Jacobs, assistant
superintendent Of motive power of
tho santa Fe system, and is Il ma
chine designed Tor use in driving
track spikes.
For the present. at least, the ma
chino will not be used in driving
spikes for the reason that on the
cceet lines the screw spikes, for which
the machine is designed, are not in
use. but will be pressed into service
to haul track gangs nom place to
place on the division.
The machine. which In appearance
is a well appointed railway motor car.
is equipped with g t~wo-cylinder OPP
posed automobile type gasoline N
CINE of IL horsepower, and is there
fore capable Of hauling . heavy load
1t is the plan To attach several track
cars on which the men Of the track
gangs are to ride and good time can
then be made from point to point. as
against hand propelled cars at pres
cnt in general use.
The time that can in this manner
be saved will represent a consider
able portion of a days work, where
it il necessary for the men to go a
number of miles to the scene of their
The machine is an old friend OF
:. I.ightfoot, bonus demonstration
of the local shops. He was with The
-. f,- tl,,, ,,,,J. thn FfYet taet nf thpl
car two and a half years ago near
Photographs that he has
also show B.. w. Benedict, bonus SUI
peIvisor of the coast lines, among
the members OF the party making the
Test.
Tests that have been conducted by
various railroads show that the screw
spikes prolong the life of the ties.
The tie problem has assumed serious
proportions ana as the screw spikes q
are placed in general use the Au-
Tra-Kah will become an important
factor in railway equipment. 2
1t is so constructed that com y
air drives o drill which borcs c
the holes for the spikes, which arc a
screwed. through the agency oil q
compressed air, to fasten the rails to a
ties. J
Speeds of from five to forty miles
IN hour ahead and ten miles an hour d
'cversc are obtained. With all the {
ar weighs only 425 pounds and cnn
therefore, be easily lifted off the =
rack To pass u train or tur around. g
When working at track-laying a flick $
shaft running to a special gear y
'ox drives Il high speed drill for drill l.
ng holes in the ties while q telescope y
haft from the other end of the car 4
'uns q special reduction gear and c
lutch Tor driving spikes. The i
of operation IS for one nan /
o go ahead, drill the holes n start &
he spikes. while the other mar fol- u
ows the car end screws in the spikes @
friction clutch on the spike y
Iriver is set So as to release when the q
read of the spike sets hard against
he rail and thus void roaming out "
he hole. A special Jig which slips b
long the rail automatically spaces t.
holes in the ties. Two men with e
machine are able to put in the y
pixies faster han the ordinary sized u
ect,on gang can place the ties. An .
utomatic tamping device is being "
instructed and will soon be plaeedIp
n the car. b