Show RAILROAD NOTES superintendent J S noble returned this morning from a trip over the division paul keyser has been promoted to the position of acting chief engineer of N C 0 O ry at reno and will soon take up ane work of locating the extension of chaj road north san francisco cal march 22 ernest L son of W A bissill assistant traffic manager of the santa fe died today of heart disease at his fathers home in alameda lie was 16 years old the oregon short line is rebuilding fifty of their coal cars into cone hot ibm side dump rock cars to bo used in ballasting and bank widening work is being done in the car shop at lo 10 and it is expected to complete about ten cars per month eighteen carloads of material machinery and supplies belonging to grant bros the railroad contractors were laken through to golconda today among the equipment were several small houses on wheels and a number of feed racks also mounted on wagan gear president E 11 of alie southern pacific has ordered some new equipment consisting of box and billat illat care fuel oil tank cars each having a capacity of gallons aa self cleaning giue dump cars and refrigerator cars the last order ii thought to be the initial step on the part ot the southern pacific to have its own system of refrigerator cars instead ot renting them as at present from the armour car line the hew schedule for the rio grande employed emp loyes has been signed by alio representatives of the various orders of conductors and trainmen in general martins office alic schedule is the first agreed upon with the men since the road went under tiie gould ownership no changes made from the former schedule beyond the adoption of a few rules regarding overtime rights and apportionments of runs no one of which however were radical according to the austin reveille the prevailing opinion among the people of austin is that the nevada midland railroad from lane to tonopah will never be built john everill Ev crill alio arrived in austin four weeks ago with clinef engineer vail to take charge 0 the construction work employed several young men to assist in the survey an d also made arrangements with several of our citizens in relation to turn teams for grading purposes mr everill became tired of the inactive inac ity 0 waiting for orders to commence work and finally bundled his belonging together and started for salt lake the outlook for the extension of the nevada central railroad into Tono pali is anything but bright r f f f f |