The Mesilla Valley independent. [volume] (Mesilla, N.M.) 1877-1879, 1877-10-20
TEE TEXAS PACIFIC +. E.
Az INTERVIEW WITH GOVERNOR
.AAIRLI.. OF NEW MENICO.
The Importance Of the ta9FrpFI,e - the Country
1T LAgc--A PaGacra fcr our Border
troubles Wbat California oapi.
tali,ts are RCiaS.
4 SOLUTION OF THE INDIAN DIF
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Governor Axtell, Of New McKee,, WHO has
been on a visit East Tor some weeks, and
who. il viii be remembered. was one of. the
distinguished party OF executives Who visited
the Exhibition during ,'Goyernors Week. has
lust returned to this city from Washington
en- route home During an interview with
The Governor yestcriay Press reporter
asked how the people Of New 3ie1ieo re-
gardeli the proposed Texas Pacific Railfoad
and whether or not public sentiment in that
Territory was in favor Of its early completion
by Government aid
governor Axtell said There is unques-
ulis a unanimous feeling amoug al classes
of our people that this great project should
he pushed forward to early completion.
am not speaking Of New Mexico alone but
aIso-of arizona, and chihuahua aud Sonora
in Mexico 1t present there is not>a single
mile OF rail laid in all this territory. We
have now three roads competing for the trade
of this section OF country-thc Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe. the Kansas Pacific,
and the Union Pacific II is fair to assume
that these three roads are equal as regards
time and COAST Of transportation 10 points ON
hne with Denver and Santa Fe. But all Of
them strike too far north of these Territories
to afford the facilities required, and are not
direct From PhiiadeIphia to Santa Fe, the
capital of New Mexico, is at1Ont seven days
Journey, but the railroad communication is
get 50 defective that this includes forty hours
staging from the most sou,herls point Of the
Denver and Rio Grande Narrow gauge Rail
way. All of The main lines have mentioned
sFe dependent ea- this lat,eF Ftsa - feeder,
but inasmuch as it docs moi reach toiwiihin
200 miles of Santa Fe. ii tlees not, Of course.
suffice FOR the trade of The Territories the
roads to which have referred are those
whichconnec With the great cities Of the
Atlantic coast but there are Others which are
reaching for the trade Of these Territories
from the West California capitalists are
rapidly pushing forward tue work ON ,Ile
Southern Pacific from san FraneiscD, with
the intention Of ,liyertlng the trade 10 thai
city, and ii is already completed 10 Fort
Yuma, a distance Of $50 miles south apd
east ,f San Francisco. and on the edge Of
Arizona and the territory of Sonora. Cali
fornia has sent in a population Of not less
than ten thousand during the past season, for
the purpose of engaging in mining ventures,
and is to-day supplying tiiat district win
mining machinery and skilled mining labor
This year that road will he pushed AT lcas,
two hundred miles further into the heart Of
Arizona, and san Francisco capitalists are
bound to make an earnest effort to monopo-
lie the trade OF that section That portion
/ Of the Texns Pacific Railroad naw completed
to Fort Worth ifcontinued to the Rio Grande
will necessarily draw large portion Il the
! trade of sliis section --of chihuahua, Sonora.
Arizona, and the soufhernportions Of Mexico
--and will largely benefit the entire country
east OF Mississippi The advantages of this
road If ifcompleted.lwOuidb he many 1t would