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Show MEXICAN PACIFIC. NEITHER CONTRACTORS NOR MEN HAVE RECEIVED PAY. Since Last June and All of Them Are Xow Dead Iiroke at Deminjr, X. M. Brief Hits of News of the Local Railroads Rail-roads and Personal Mention. A private "letter received here today from one of the civil engineers employed on the Mexican Northern Pacific railroad (John W. ! Young's road) at Deniing, New Mexico, tells a rather harrowing' talc of the manner ill which the employes imd contractors are being; treated. The letter 6 ays: 'Neither the surveyors or contractors hare received a u cent of. pay- since June last and all nre iu a hard way, dead broke and no means of getting; home. The merchants who have carried the men since June, have closed down on them and will sell them nothing unless they have, the means of paying pay-ing for it. "W. Derby Johnson, Mr. Young's agent here, and J. Fewson Smith gave their personal assurance in July that all the indebtedness in-debtedness of the compauy should be paid by November 1st, but now they both refuse to make that promise good. So that now- all the engineers the locating and the construction corps are all here and none of them have a cent. The. sub-contractors are also in the same predicament and are unable to even get their outlits out of Old Mexico. Every promise has been made us that a vivid imagination could suggest, but every one. of them has been disregarded. Some very glowing reports have been written writ-ten about this country, but they are all the creations of a fertile imagination and a ready pen. It is a of a country; nothing noth-ing to do except on the railroad, and if any of us get away, I suppose we will have to walk." Dili Not Arrive. It was announced early in the week that Messrs. Peabody and Dodge of the Rio Grande 'Western would be here some time this week, when it was expected some dcti-nite dcti-nite information in reference to the possibilities possi-bilities of that road extending westward would be obtained. But up to tbe arrival of No. 1 on the, Rio Grande Western today those gentlemen had not put in an appearance. The local officers of the road say they expect ex-pect that Messrs Dodgo and Peabody will be here soon, but when they do not have any opinion. . Railroad J"ote. An order has been given by the Great Salt Lake & Hot Springs railroad for a quantity of angle bars, (an "improved tish plate ) to be used on the Bountiful extension. As soon as they arrive, the rails will be laid on that branch the grading for which is now ready for the ties. There is a possibility of the Great Salt Lake it Hot Springs railroad being extended extend-ed to Centcrvilfe this winter; all depends on the weather. C. E. Williams, until lately Mr. J. H. Bennett's Ben-nett's secretary, is now tiiling the position of chief clerk in the passenger department until Mr. G. H. Coffman's successor is appointed. ap-pointed. All the roads coming into the city will give special rates of one-half fare for the trainmen's ball to be given on December Id. Special rates will be given by all the roads for the mining congress at Denver. The switch from the Utah Central track to the Metropolitan stone quarry at Talk City will be Completed in three weeks. Mr. Sam Levy is now making a superior brand of smoking tobacco in connection with his cigar factory. Try it, you will bo sure to like it. |