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Engineer C. W. Jeffries of Acambaro is in the city. Conductor Harrington of Acambaro is in the city on a business trip Conductor Mansfield has left the service of the Cuernavaca line. Mr. J. E. White has resumed his run on the Central after a month’s vaca tion. Conductor Chas. H. Starr has en ores the service of the M. C. and Ry- Another artesian well is being put down at the Mexican Central shops in Buena Vista. Paymaster Carl Smith arrived this morning from prying off the Southern division of the National. Conductor J. W. McWilliams has gone into the hotel business at a sum mer resort in Pennsylvania. The Central has cut in a telegraph office in the office of Master Mechanic Jennings at the Buena Vista shops. Mr. H. F. Grove, formerly a pas senger conductor on the Central, is now running 4 tran on the Sonora R. C. Cabello train despatcher of the Santiago offee of the National is confined to his home account of sickness. Mr. “‘Jim?’? Campbell, for many years a passenger engineer on the Central, is in town from his coffee farm in the Metlahoyuca district. Conductor Rob McGaugh has re signed on the National and with his family will return to Kansas, where he owns a fine fruit farm. The M. C. and P. R. will send out a special train this morning for the purpose of bringing President Diaz and party from Tres Marias. Superintendent W. R. Dwinell of the National returned to his headquarters at Santiago yesterday morning after a week’s trip up the line of road. It is reported that the Mexican National will ran and excursion train from Monterey and Saltillo to San Antonio on Tuesday the 20th on account of Battle of Flowers. The gross receipts of the Inter oceanic railway for the week ending April 10 were $47,643.90 as against $39,533.91 for the corresponding week last year; an increase of $8,109.99. Mr. Barry D’Armand, formerly manager of the Buena Vista telegram office of the Central, writes that his health has improved greatly since he went to the States and he hopes soon to return cured. Mr. T. E. Winchell, assistant ticket agent of the A. T. S. F. Railway and Mr. H. Dunham, passenger agent of the same system, with headquarters in Chicago, are in the city. ey are quartered at the Jardin. All the Mexican Central yards in Buena Vista need at present is a large grain elevator to give them the ap pearance of railway yards in one of the large grain centers in the United States. An average of fifty cars of corn is being received daily. The Rio Grande, Sierra Madre, Pacific Railway will run within ten miles of Colonia Dublan, a settlement founded by Mormons in Mexico, and engineers are now at work surveying a route for a wagon road from the railway to the colony. The expense of the road will be borne equally by the railway and the Mormons. J. Foley, a middle aged man who was the train dispatcher of the Mex ican National R. A.,on the San Luis Potosi division, arrived in this city last evening from Mexico and stopped at the Hamilton hotel. He was quite ill with a spell of fever and came here to enter the company hospital for medical treatment, but went to the hotel to spend the night. This morning about seven o’clock he called for a loss of milk and raised up to drink it. In drinking about half he fell back on the pillow and died a few seconds afterwards. Supt. Galbraith of this division took charge of the corps and made an effort to locate some of Foley’s relatives,*but was unsuccess ful. So he will be burried here at the expense of the company, Laredo Times. Further evidence of the great growth which has occurred in recent years in the earnings of the principal Mexican railways is afforded the report of the Mexican National Railway Com pany. The gross receipts in 1896 came to $5,299,025, as against $4,513,205 in 1995 and $4,329,07$ in 1894; while last year’s net earnings were $2,525,958, compared with $2,071,408 and $1,$91, 962 in the two preceding years. Un fortunately, the company has been again hit by the further depreciation in ilver, which, moreover,has increasing effect as the revenue improves. Lastear the loss on conversion into gold was roughly 31,497,000, which reduced the income in gold available for interest to little more than $1,000, 000. Nevertheless, the directors were able to declare a dividend of 3 percent on the Second Mortgage ‘A’? Bonds’ —which is just double what was paid a year ago, and enables the English company to declare a dividend of £ 2. 7s. 4d. on its*‘A” certificates.—London Financial News. Domingo Lejarza, station cashier of the Mexican National R. A. in Nuevo Laredo under Agent Geo. Hatley, is now incacerated in the jail of Nuevo Laredia on aecount of checking up about 34,000 short in his accounts. Traveling uwitter
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The Two Republics
Mexico City, Mexico, MX
Sat, Apr 17, 1897
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