Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-07-26
TOWARD THE SOUTH.
Orders al Hand for the Survey Of the
Santa Fe Southern to Oerrillos
and San Pedro.
Probabilities of Immediate Construction
The Funds Notwithstanding
About the Roato,

Engineer Coleman left Richmond, Va,
yesterday under instruct ms Of the Brlce-
Thomas syndicate to come here ana
locate the extension ot the Santa re
Southern railroad from this city to Ger
rillos and San Pedro 1t is intended to
have the surveyors take the field August
l. Already Gen. Nelly has commenced
getting together the necessary outfit, and
preparing to push the work. Ii will re-
quire thirty DAYS to definitely locate the
line, and it is said to he the Intention OF
the hackers OF the santa Ee Southern TO
Immediately BEGIN the construction OF the
road The extension will be forty miles
in length. Already several preliminary
SURVEYS for thi~ line have been made,
notably one by Col. Irwin for the Texas,
Santa Ee & Northern company and
another under direction Of Gen. Nelly,
and pretty fair idea Of the several routes
and their expcnsiveness has thus been
obtained but the object of this new sur
vev is to definitely determine the route to
! be adopted and furnish data upon
| which to make the final estimates
for the enterprise. The Brice-Thomas
syndicate has an abundance of capital,
and it is said it have wired Gen.
Nelly that the money necessary to this
improvement Of the line here is at his
command whenever he says the word.
Gen. Nelly is proceeding very cautiously
| in the premises, but under the cirCum-
stances it is believed the extension will
be completed now without unreasonable
delay. To say the least, the prospects are
very fattering, for the rapid development
of south Santa Fe county's mining in
dustry and the assurance that the present
activity is destined to be long and lasting
would certainly seem to indicate that II
is good business policy for these railroad
people to push their line into that region
as rapidly as possible-and it now looks
as ii it will be done.
As to the route to be taken, it appears
probable that the line will run direct tc
the Cash Entry mine, going thence to the
town of Cerrillos and thence passing
through the coal fields and reaching SaL
Pedro via Golden practically parallellnE
the present public highway. 1t will be
no trick at all to build the road for the frs
twenty miles, for the country IS lere
and unbroken, and $4,000 It mile will dc
it. For the remainder of the distance
some heavy work will be required, bu
$40 900 to 81 900 per mile will footthe bill
| The construction OF this road would bt
of incalculable benefit to the business In
J terests OF this city. In fact every loca
, interest would be stimulated and it is be
, lieyed to be within the bounds OF reason
: to say that its effect would be to double
, the taxable wealth Of the county within
the next year, matter which the Sant'
Fe Southern people have probably takel
into account long ere this, as they art
3 large holders of the Santa Fe county Sc
curities.
Engineer Coleman, who has been givel
l charge of this survey,i is brother Of Col
2 Coleman, OF the government land depart
3 ment, and has but recently resigned thu
chief engineefship of q railroad running
out of Bridgeport, Conn. He is an ex
, perienced civil engineer and is known t.
S many in the southwest by reason OF hi
/ former connection With the building OF th
1 Houston & Texas central road.