Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-03-25
LINES UPON LINES,
Ready to Build" the Alg"dones- Durango
Road-Narrow Gauge Extension
Tho u. Z. in New Mex
iCo-NntSG,

tIiIeI euelueeIJ " ~. cludr, are now III
Durango, They are quoted as saying:
''We are ready to build broad gauge rail
road from Algodones, as surveyed two
years ago, to Durango. We fully expect
ed to build the line then, but the depor-
able condition of all railroad securities,
especially those in the west, and the drop
in the Santa Fe made it impossible to get
capitalists to get hold of the project. Blu,
We have never given up the idea, and
nave not let up a day in our effort to build
the road"
1t Viii be good news to many of the
| NEMMLXlCAA' 5 readers to Learn that Mr..
| Cooks people ARE ready to build" That
sounds like real business. But in the
uean time there 10 another Richmond III
| Lie held. luis other company also Wants
to conAect durango and Rico with THE
| the Cenlrut klo Grande valley, hoping
eventually to extend Ia both directions ~
rs to get CONNECTIONS with Salt Lake Oh
the northwest ana the gun Oh the south
east. surveyors are La The held nov be-
tween Rico aud Durango and between
|
Silly 1t Is tlils opposition that has stirred
MIR. COOKS people to renewed activity.
AT any rate, 1t seems now probable that
some SUCH llue NIL he built.
| TIE MARROW GAUGE EXTENSION.
The cltizens' committee TO raise the
$4,000 necessary to secure right OF way
and depot and shop grounds Tor the San
Ia te Southern extension to CerrIllos and
San Pedro, is not meeting with the ell
couragement that it should. Up to date
1t has secured 81 ,5Uu, Just hail the re-
CURED sum. Property owners VINO re.
luse ~ respond " tils call seem to De
wholly Obvious to the benefits to ACCRUE
from The extension Vi This line, and they
seem " forget also thai the CONDITIONS
Under " hlch this subscription is made are
such as ~ make them absolutely sale Ill
NOT pa! ing out cent until the road Is
actually under COnsti uCtlOn AND lis COM
pIetIou assured. lAe CltlLeus who have
led Uu III lIls Iualter have thrown ever,
sale guard possible about this subsvrlp-
| lIou, ana uuuer the circumstances there
Should Oe helping hand COMING Tor
ward from every man who has interests
IeIe " he appreciated i'll value, as they
Certainly "lll be When the road ID built.
line Cerrlllos Town compauy held a
meeting yesterday AFTERNOON ANA made a
very liberal proposition to the Santa te
Southern people, which has been ac-
cepted. Inc road gets right Of way free
through the Whoie length OF Sucorro
avenue anu also gets d deed to oUU ieet
AIohlase on thls street and AL adjacent
tract oi iatu lor depot grounds, certainly
nosl liberal oHer.
1nele no" renlalns no uIIIv -, 10 loe,
III adjusting this mAlter Oh behalf OF Santa
Fe. Ihe New York parties are only
waiting 10 hear finally as to " hat our peo-
pie viii DO before the question is decided
one way or the other. la lew DAYS the
cilizen's committee will be called upon to
give thai report.
ACUT IN EXPRESS RATES.
The D. d X. q. express came to the
front to-day with decided cut in express
rates from Kansas points that supply this
market with its butter, eggs and dressed
poulty, Cts shame that New Mexico has
10 import such articles when the condi-
| tons Tor production at home are all so
tavoIable), The cut is deep one,
amounting to from Is cents to 81 so on
the hundred weight. Under the new
schedule, the rate ON butter and eggs from
all Kansas points and as far east as Kan
sas City and st. Joe, is ~. ~ per hundred,
and OH dressed poultry and game from
such points, IS. The d. & K. e., Pa
CHIC and U. S. express companies are in
the combination that bring about this cut,
and as yet the Wells-FargO has not met
1t, but it probably will before tomorrow.
THE UNION PACIFIC IN NEW MEXICO.
1t seems that the Union Pacific has a.
last decided to invade New Mexico, and
its tirst break is west from Albuquerque
through Taos valley. PROFESSIONALLY
this is the beginning Of a new outlet to
the Pacific, for the U. p. is going to
build from Salt Lake to Los Angeles and
1t Is good business to fill in the gap be-
tween the Fort Worth & Denver ana that
southern Utah line reaching to the coast.
1t Will afford superior route for winter
travel. The Trinidad Advertiser says:
The new surveying corps of the U. T.,
which arrived in the city Tuesday went
up to the head Of Longs canon yesterday
to assist i'll locating the line across into
the Red river country. This will make
the third set Of surveyors put to work in
the canon. Considerable difficulty is
being experienced in getting route
across the mountains. At one place a
tunnel 600 feet through has been located
and probably will have to be built in
order 10 get the line through"
THE PECos VALLEY LINE.
The Pecos valley scheme, which is to
build road from some point on the
Texas & Pacific road to the New Mexico
state line, there to connect with line to
be built to Roswell, New Mexico, is at
tracing some attention, and it is not
strange that the Texas & Pacific is
thought by some to be favoring the
scheme. Engineers are now on the field
locating the line OF the road. Fort Worth
Gazette.
A., T. 8. F. TO SAN PEDRO.
Engineer Booker, chief of the A.. r. 4
S. F. surveying corps, now in the field
between Ortiz station and San Pedro, has
returned from Topeka and has removed
his camp to Chors canon, southwest of
Ortiz, where he has eleven men en-
ployed. 1t is said the Chora canon
route has been definitely determined
on and that ten days more work
will see all the grade stakes driven for
the permanent line to San Pedro. Par
ties in from Cerrilos to-day say, how
ever, that it is not at all likely the Santa
Fe will build over that route for a long
time to come unless the narrow gauge
begins work from this city south, In