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EL PASO HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DEO. 27, LINK AND PIN ROTARY PLOW TO COME TO RESCUE PARRAL DURANGO SAID TO BE SOLD English and French Capitalists Take Over This Property. It was reported at Monterey yesterday that all arrangements had been completed for the purchase of the Parral Durango railroad by a firm of English and French capitalists, says the Monterey News. The purchase is part of a $5,000.000 deal which takes in the railroad and the Hidalgo Mining company. For several months W.

Atwood assisted by W. J. Wellman has been making an investigation of the hooks of the railroad and mining company. It was said that the favorable report of the investigators was all that was needed to assure the purchase of the road. The investigation came to a close a few days ago and the investigators expressed themselves so pleased with the condition of the books of the railroad that all those interested in mining and railroads in Chihuahua are satisfied that the deal is as good as consumated.

Messrs. Atwood and Wellman came on to Parral from New York several months ago in the interests of Touche, McNiven and began their investigation of the books of the railroad and the Hidalgo Mining company. Touche, McNiven are working in the interests of the Anglo- French syndicate, limited, which will be the real purchaser of the railroad and of the mine, if that part of the deal goes through. The English and French capitalists will take over all the stock of the road, and it is said they will run it on from its present terminus, in Ojito, into the Guanacevi mining district. The Guanacevi is one of the richest mining districts in the state of Chihuahua, and said by some to be the richest in the republic.

Up to the present time, although great improvement has gone on, the chief difficulty has lain in the fact that no railroad ran into the district, and it was almost impossible to get into it. Mines have been developed and smelters built, but up to the present no railroad has even been a probability. BROWNSVILLE TRAIN IS RUN Big Snow Plow From Rock Island Will Dig Out the Drifts. First Train Over New Line to the Bay City Run on Christinas. Passenger trains on the eastern division of the Southwestern are still snowbound in the drifts between Epris and Duran, X.

M. Three snow plows have been struggling Bay City received a Christmas present Monday. It was the first train over the Brownville road and was welcomed warmly. By working late the connection of the gap was effected Saturday night and there is now an unbroken strech of steel rails between that booming little city and Brownsville. Vice president and general manager Jeff N.

Miller, who is in Houston spending Christmas at his home, gave out the ne wof the completion of the line into Bay City. The winding up of this piece of construction is another chapter in the rapid railroad program of the Yoakum interests. The line between Bay City and Sinton has been put through in splendid time. It brings the Brownsville road nearer to Houston. There remains the gap between Bay City and where the line touches the Santa Fe, a short distance below Alvin, will require 60 or 70 days to complete, then trains will be operated into Houston and Galveston.

This gap has required a longer time on account of the heavy character of construction work at several points. Some heavy draw bridges have to be built, and it takes time to complete this work. Mr. Miller said there is nothing in the statement published of headquarters being in Fort Worth for the Yoakum lines. Plans for headquarters are not mature yet.

A TRAINS HAVE PLENTY OF PROVISIONS Topeka, Dec. is announced from the Rock Island offices here rnai of the overland passenger trains are tied up by snow west of Santa Rosa, N. M. They are the Golden State limited and the Chicago fast mail. Both trains are well victulated and expect to break- the 24-hour blockade this afternoon.

PRESIDENT HERE I). P. Doak In City 011 Way to Home at San Francisco SANTA EE TRIES NEW OIL BURNER Trial Runs Between Needles and Albuquerque Made. The Lassoe-Lovekin oil burning device, which has been used with great success on the ocean oil-burning steamships between San Francisco and New York and other points, is being given a trial in the Santa Fe railway sei-viee. Engine 1628, one of the new big freight engines of the Santa Fe, has been equipped with one of tne new burners, and is pulling a train between Albuquerque and Needles.

to demonstrate the possibilities of the new burner, both for the information of the railroad company and the Scully Steel Iron company, of Chicago, the agents of the firm which owns the patents. The differences in the burner are merely technical, but the leading virtue of the new device is that it does away with the fire brick lining in the firebox and in this particular makes a great saving in expense and trouble, as one of the chief difficulties connected with the use of oil as fuel in locomotives, with the Santa Fe, has been to find brick that would stand the immense heat of the firebox without melting down. Another feature is the saving of oil which is claimed for the new burner. The company asserts that the burner will do an equal amount of work with half the fuel used in one of the old style burners. ------------o-----------NEW UNLOADING PIPES INSTALLED AT G.

H. TANKS Under the direction of master mechanic Fitzgerald, of the G. a new unloading system has been established at the oil tanks east of the city for use in emptying tank cars. Heretofore the oil from the cars has been allowed to run into a long trough, from which it flowed by gravity into a reservoir in the ground. From the reservoir it was pumped into the huge tanks.

Under the new system, a dozen 5 inch pipes have been carried from the pumps to positions by the side of the track. When a car of oil is brought to be unloaded, direct connection is made from one of these pipes with the car, and the oil is pumped direct to the tank, without the intermediate process of allowing it to flow first into the small tank. CLIFFORD BROS. Wholesale and Retail STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES. Generai Merchandise.

Mail Orders Given Prompt Attention. East Overland. Phone 111, D. P. Doak, president of the Pan- American railroad, is at the Sheldon, accompanied by his wife.

He is on his way to San Francisco to spend as much of the holiday season as remains at his old home. Mr. Doak has just returned from a visit to the scene of operations on the Pan-American road. Smith, president of the Pan-American Construction company, was with him. Together they went over the work on the second division of the road.

Business detained them in the San Geronimo and Tcnala region, and they did not go to Guatemala as they had intended doing. It is intended to begin work from the Guatemala border upward within a short time, in order to increase the rapidity of operations. At the southern end work is going smoothly, having been inaugurated at the first of the present month. Work is now being pushed in both directions. On the work from Tonala to the southeast difficulty was caused in providing labor.

Chinamen were imported to aid the natives and no further difficulty is anticipated. There is no labor trouble at the southern end. Material is rapidly arriving for the work. The line, it is said, will be of the best construction possible at all points. The line is being built with a view to permanance, so that it will not be necessary to do any great amount of reconstruction work for a number of years to come.

date has been set definitely for the completion of work. The line is destined to connect a gulf port with a Pacific port, providing a new transcontinental route. --------------o-------------MEXICO CITY IS TO HAVE UNION DEPOT Plans Are at Last Agreed Upon for a Structure in the City of Mexico for Five Railways. Monterey, Dec. depots in Mexico seem to be the rage just now.

Mexico City is to have an immense structure to accommodate the five railroads that center in that city. This plan has long been talked of. but it was not until yesterday that it was ever officially announced. While in Monterey yesterday an official of the National railroad said it is now a certainty and that in a short time active steps will be taken towards the construction of the immense building. That it will be a great improvement and will be heartily welcomed by the traveling public goes without saying.

All the stations of the different railroads at the capital occupy different parts of the city, and much 1 time is consumed in going from one to the other. Its necessity for a city of the size has been appreciated by the roads entering there, and that it will be built in a short time is the I firm belief of the official who was I here and who is in a position to know. ORIENT EQUIPMENT IS IN THE CENTRAL YARDS Six new combination first and second class passenger coaches for the Kansas Mexico Orient road have arrived in the city and are in the Mexicali tral yards in Juarez. They will be taken to Chihuahua tonight. with the drifting snow since Monday, and reports received in this city indicate the hope that the line will be clear by 4 ocloek this afternoon, permitting the trains to straggle into town late this evening.

A monster rotary snow plow, capable of cutting a wide swath through the snow, is expected to arrive from the Kock Island late tonight or early in the morning, and after it has made a trip over the line it is hoped that the difficulty will be past. The Golden State limited, due in this city from the east Monday afternoon and all passenger trains since that time, are being held up by the snow. ------------o------------EXPRESS OFFICE IN DEPOT AT TOLUCA IS ROBBED Full reports received from the express office in the passenger station at Toluca where burglars gained entrance by boring a hole in the door and breaking the lock, show that $2025 in currency was taken from the safe, the lock of which was broken. No clue to the robbery was left, but the cashier and four of his assistants were arrested on general principles. Two have been released upon establishing satisfactory alibis.

0 -----------------------------------ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE William Shea, conductor on the Mexican Central out of Jimulco, is in town. L. U. Morris, superintendent of the western division of the Southwestern, is in Douglas. P.

O. Gardner, clerk for the Pullman company, has from a visit at San Antonio. C. Thornton, conductor on the Mexican Central out of Jimulco, is spending the holidays in this city. E.

D. Scanlon, roadniaster of the eastern division of the Southwestern, is making a trip of inspection over the line with superintendent Morris. E. G. Piper has accepted a position with the Southern Pacific railway as draftsman in the engineering department, and left Christmas day for his new field of duty.

Mrs. C. B. Eiford and little son Jack, wife of the trainmaster for the Southwestern at Douglas, is spending the holidays her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

J. E. Piper at their home, 009 North Oregon street. J. Ryan, general foreman of bridges and buildings of the western division of the Southwestern, has left for a trip over the line.

It is rumored that Mr. Ryan's headquarters will be transferred from this citv to Douglas. Miss Maud Dorsey, sister of William Dorsey of the G. has returned from an extended trip through the east. She visited relatives in New York and Pennsylvania, meeting her father at Coffeyville, Kas.

It is said that Harry Lawton, freight traffic manager of the Mexican Central, is slated for the position of traffic manager of the National lines of Mexico, when W. B. Bryan retires to assume his duties as traffic manager of ihe National of Tehuantepec, on January 1, with a salary of £6000 per annum. The position which Mh. Lawton may take will pay about double what he gets now.

Mr. Lawton is having the skin of the gigantic silver tip bear, which he killed after quite a narrow escape for himself in Chihuahua, mounted. It will make a most handsome rug. -------------o -----------AMERICAN NURSES ARE NOT WELCOMED Indiscretion of One In Mexican Capital Causes Discrimination. UEO MER 11- Will Reclaim Large Acreage of Arid Land In Difficult Engineering Proposition.

Washington, Dec. board of consulting engineers composed of A. P. Davis, assistant chief engineer of the reclamation service, W. H.

Sanders, consulting engineer, and 13. M. Hall, supervising engineer, have submitted to the engineer of the geological survey a report on the Red river project in Oklahoma. This project contemplates the construction of a dam across the North fork of Red river about 11 miles northwest of Snyder, and about six miles northeast of Headrick, Okla. This dam will form a reservoir of about 200,000 acree-foot capacity, and will raise the water on each side of the river into canals which will irrigate land very soon after leaving the reservoir.

The dam site has granite abutments and the borings show granite foundations at the depth of abfcut GO feet. The bed of the river is composed of quicksand and mud and is so unstable as to make unsafe any type of a dam except of masonry founded upon bed rock. The project contemplates two canal systems, one on each side of the river, diverting from the reservoir dam at an elevation of 25 feet above the floor of the reservoir. The western, or Greer canal, will supply 30,000 acres and have a capacity of 400 second feet. The construction of this canal will be somewhat difficult ing to having to cross a mile of choppy bench land paralleling the ri v-: er below tne dam, 1 1-4 miles through broken sand hills, and 400 feet of rock.

The distribution system will be ample, as the latterals are nearly all on level cross sections, most of them following section lines. The eastern canal, which will divert at the northeast end of the reservoir I dam. has two miles of construction on rough bench land, and five on sandy hillsides. It reaches the main body of the land at the 11th mile. Data in regard to water supply is limited, as the measurements did not until last April.

These measurements show a discharge at the dam; site of 278,000 acre-feet to the end of September, and the discharge for the year'is estimated at 378,000 acre-feet.) This year, however, was an unusually wet year, and these measurements i throw little light on the flow in dry years. The uncertainty of the water supply is a very serious obstacle to a definite recommendation at the present time. In a more arid region no decision could be reached until sev- eral observations had been made. But under the Red river pro- ject the conditions are different. The mean annual rainfall in this vicinity is about 29 inches, and it sufficient to keep trees alive and to produce some crops without irrigation.

The shortage or irrigation would not be nearly so serious as in a more arid i region. With the present data, how-1 ever, it is not safe to set the exact acreage which should be comprised in this project. On a tract of 60,0001 acres the cost of construction would be about $45 per acre, including maintenance for ten years. It is not believed that the majority of the land owners would be willing to pay this amount for the benefits of irrigation, although there is apparently no doubt it would be a good investment if the water was properly used. A careful examination of the waters passing the reservoir site show that they contain an average of 1-10 of 1 per cent, of salt solution, which percentage would be increased in a dry year.

It would be unsafe to use such water for irrigation unless the irrigated lands are thoroughly The irrigable lands are all first class.1 lae soil, however, is mostly a heavy! clay, difficult to drain and unsuitable for the reception of salt water without perfect drainage. From cursory! examinations made recently, it ap-l pears that about 10 per cent, of the! salt in the water comes from three springs which flow into Elm fork, a branch of the North fork of Red river. It is thought to be possible to eliminate these springs by diverting and evaporating the water, but no estimate has yet 'been of the cost of doing this. The board recommends that the engineer of soils be instructed to visit1 Snyder, make a careful estimate the cost of draining the irrigable! lands and examine th efeasibility and availability of using the waters on that land: that the borings at the Xa-1 vajo reservoir be continued to com- pletion, and that afterwards borings be made at the Lugert Reservoir site to determine the position of bed A PROCLAMATION the People of Cl Paso and Surrounding Country Sensational Developments Are Promised The Entre Stock of High Grade I)rv Goods, Shoes and Clothing of the well known and established FAMOUS DRY GOODS COMPANY, FOR THE PAST THIRTY YEARS LOCATED IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK WAS BOUGHT UP BY OUR BUYER IN OUR NEW YORK OFFICE, 458 BROADWAY. This entire stock was bought at our own price.

We will place this entire mighty purchase on sale to the public of El Paso at less than actual cost of the raw material. This will be the greatest and most daring effort of merchandising ever attempted in this great state of Texas. This stupendous and magnificent Bargain Feast will begin within a few days. We are making extraordinary preparations to arrange and mark this mighty purchase which has just arrived. Watch the papers for the opening announcement; we will quote such bewildering and glittering prices that will shock the manufacturers, not alone our competitors.

Think of worth of Dry Goods, Clothing and Shoes AT LESS THAN 27 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR. You never heard of it before and you never will again, therefore embrace this one opportunity and fail to watch and wait for our prices which will soon appear in ail the papers of El Paso. Thanking you in advance, we beg to remain. 5T 4 A THE BOSTON STORE 316-318 E. OVERLAND ST, EL PASO, TEXAS.

TOO LxVTE TO CLASSIFY FURNISHED rooms: electric lights; steam heat; private bath; with or without board. Phone 71H). WANTED A girl for general house work. 1127 Magoffin. FOR RENT unfurnished rooms for light housekeeping; close in.

yoming. few boarders at Mesa good board at a reasonable price. Airs. M. arev.

WANTED unfurnished room suitable for light wood working; rear entrance will answer; rent not over Address Wood Worker, Herald. FOR RENT front room with grate; board; business man. Arizona, one block, 1110 Noble. I widow, position as house- keeper for widower or bachelor; fond of children; would leave citv. d.

cart Herald. WANTED Traveling salesman for New wholesale house; must he experienced; good references essential; Span-j isli speaking preferred. Address P. Itox El Paso, Texas. JUST ARRIVED grocery co I Smoked Salmon, Swansdown Shredded OKn per pound Codtish, 2 pkgs.

Smoked Halibut, Boston Beauty Mackerel, per each luC Smoked Golden Bloaters, Extra Large Norwegian each Mackerel each Smoked Herring, per box Finest and most extensive line of 50 in the city of Xmas Pure Milchers Holland CANDIES Herring, 7 for Pure Milchers Holland 11H ktt Herring, per keg i I if UTS Five Pound Pails Russian DATES Sardines I3E RAISINS Russian Sardines in 1 bulk, per 2 MEXICAN NAVEL Spiced Roll Mops, ORANGES fact, everything that old Snow White Boneless 101p Santa Claus will need for the Codfish, per stocking, THE LION GROCER.Y CO. PHONES 208-213-801. FOR RENT large front room; of bath and phone; gentleman only. 707 Santa Fe. OR RENT nice sunny rooms furnished or unfurnished, cheap.

Address ,1. 1). Herald. FOR SALE Furniture of firs, PLAY IN A rooming house; everything hrst class; 9 rooms. Texas St.

9 9 ARE YOUR VALUABLES PROTECTED AT HOME? SAFBC'RAFT is combination of I1LGIT GRADE SA FE concealed in a useful piece of MISSION FURNITURE Within each piece of SAFECRAFT is a FIRE and THIEF-PROOF HERRING-H ALL-MARVIN-SAFE A Writing Desk, China Cabinet, Book Case, Work Table or a CABINET makes an acceptable Xmas gift. all and see SAFECRAFT or write for catalogue and prices. THORNE STORAGE DISTRIBUTING No. 7 Morehouse Block, El Paso, Texas. City of Mexico, Dec.

of a prejudice against American nurses, I caused by the silly flirtation of one whom the family employed to attend I their child during a recent attack, president 1 )iaz and Mrs. Corral absolutely refused to allow an American nurse to be employed for the ice president during his attack of typhoid fever, and Mexico narrowly escaped losing her vice president in consequence. 1 his fact was developed when some of the American nurses of this city tried to find an explanation for the action of the family. It is alleged that Mrs. Corral had said in Spanish, American nurse shall ever again cross the threshold of nvv door.

1 am disgusted with them. When my little daughter was ill with rheumatism of heart two months ago, we employed one, who had been most higli- 1 ly recommended. I do not remember her 1 name, but she had come from El Paso, She was a good enough nurse, but when lever a Mexican gentleman came to in quire alter little patient, she would flirt most outrageously with him. I became perfectly disgusted with thi. performance and both Mr.

Corral and myself determined that we should never again employ an American as a nurse, or allow any of our friends to do so," 1 his action the part of the Corral family has produced a prejudice in the minds of the best Mexican families against American nurses, which is doing and that a thorough survey be made to determine the cost of diverting the low flow of Elm fork. Pending the results of these investigations no further action can be taken toward presenting the project for the consideration of the secretary of the interior. FOR SALE A line large new tent, only lone Star Land N. Stanton. Tel.

FUR SALE 4 line south front lots, high ground, close to shops and proposed ear line, only each. Lone Star Land 1 Iti N. Stanton. oitng lady, two experience, desires situation in office, some stenography; out of town accepted. Address (Mice, Herald.

white barber immediately; must be steady and sober. Ad- uress P. J. Howe, Santa Rita, N. SALOON SUNDAY OR RENT desirable rooms, furnished for light housekeeping.

802 X. Oregon St. Serious Charges Against I )eputy Constable Chriss. Double Egg. An egg within an egg was brought to Smith Center the other day by C.

L. Busweil. a farmer. The outside egg measured eight inches in circumference the long way and seven inches the other way. Inside of this was another perfect egg, shell and all, being separated from the big egg by about a half inch of the white of the egg, It was laid by an ordinary hen a mixture of Plymouth Rock and Leghorn.

City Journal. an inestimable profession. amount of harm to Mr. Corral had two nurses, but they were Mexican nuns, who knew absolutely nothing of the scientilic treatment of the fever. All they did was to ''it by the bedside and pray, occasionally wiping the face of the distinguished patient with a sterilized cloth.

The American nurses here are doing everything in their power to allay he impression which has thus been created, but thus far to no avail. FOR SALE lots cor 1 of a viaand river onlv SU: for a short time. one StarLand 0 liti X. 'Stanton. Tel.

FOR 1 rgains iu East ElPaso lots. but liavt to hev don't stav witli us long. Lone Star Land( 0 1 1 (i X. Stanton. Tel.

first eh ss cook; will pay good 12 20 Montana la Sat urdav. FOR RENT- -7) room furnished 1 Olive St 5 Apply Horaee I Stevens. real estate insurance. JbOR SALE- OWl er, new 4 nouse, modern, Wyoming terms. ,1.

i 80. City. i STRAYED 01 stolen. water spaniel pup se ve 1 mouths old. to 014 Xort 11 1 Mor Mice St.

llewa 11 WANTED I- Ixpcrieiie ed shaft man. Apply in perso; to X. Kansas St bet wet mi and 10 a. m. 1 young man willing to work in or out of citv; Paso who lesale ext tene nee reference.

Is ca re 1 Her; lid. FOR SALE Two bear skins tanned; one Columbia bicycle. Apply 807) X. Stanton St. FOR furnished room for man and wife.

St Hi X. Stanton. white waiter; good wages for right man. Mrs. Stewart, 001 X.

Megon. LOST A lady gold "watch and fob 011 I exas street. binder will be rewarded by leaving same at El Paso Dairv Co. Rough on the Dean. On one occasion, when the late Charles Page Eden was dean of Oriel College, Oxford, grave complaints against the college cook were brought to him by one of the undergraduates.

The dean sent for the offender, recapitulated his several delinquencies, and threatened him with dismissal. La, Mr. rejoined the cook, in a confidential tone, no manner of use attending to what the young men tell you about my dinners. Why, you know, Mr. Eden, they eome just in the same way to me and complain about your The investigation of the charge that deputy constable John Chriss accepted money for the release of a man he had arrested on the charge of carrying a pistol, has not yet been completed.

Chriss was suspended by constable Clements. He denies the charge and says that he will prove his innocence. The man making the charge Is B. Pond, a miner from Casas Grandes. He alleges that early Sunday morning as he left a saloon on Utah street, a man who said he was Biggs, a deputy put his hands around him and found a gun.

Pond says that he was arrested but the officer told him that he could go if he would put up some money. Pond claims to have given him $12. The money was acept- ed and the pistol returned, he says. Sunday night Pond was in the Silver King saloon. Chriss entered and Pond approached him saying that he was the man who had held him up for carrying a gun.

It is said that Chriss pulled his pistol and cocked it, telling Pond that he said something which was not so. Proprietor Hewitt of the saloon, and Alex Ormond, who were standing close to Chriss, jerked the weapon out of his hand. After this incident Pond with friends went to the Utah street beat and saw police officer Jim Biggs. Pond stated emphatically that Biggs was not the man who had arrested him Sunday morning. He had never seen him before..