Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-09-18
COAL AND MINERAL.
CerrilIos and White Oaks Attracting the
Onion Pacifc's Attentlon-Long's
Canon Liue.

Here is a very significant paragraph
from the Trinidad Advertiser which came
to hand this morning:
at has been learned from a most reli-
able source that party of Union Pacific
surveyors who left Trinidad early last
spring have just returned from Chihua-
hua, Mexico, where they had but lately
finished preliminary survey for the
road running from the Long canon ex-
tension, through to Chihuahua. The
line touches Las Vegas and runs Though
the White Oaks mining district, sec
ton of southeastern New Mexico with
mineral possibilities exceeding any other
portion of the territory. That the new
line will be pushed through Immediately
Is not likely, but that it will be built
eventually is certainty. The company
has spent too much money on their Longs
Canon branch not to complete it through
to a section from which it would draw it's
greatest revenue"
Thus at last the secret back oil the
Union Pacific operations toward tho
southwest in Colfsx county seems to
have leaked out. 1t has long been known
that there was big scheme involved
in the Union Pacific companys
invasion of A., T. Il s. +. territory,
but just what that scheme was has
until now been kept very quiet.
The Cerrillos mineral and anthracite coal
fields and the splendid undeveloped re-
sources about White Oaks, together with
the inviting field which northern Chi
huahua, offers are responsible for this
movement. New Mexico, and especially
that portion lying between Santa Fe and
White Oaks, has much to hope for as the
outcome of the above quoted statement.
RAILWAY DOTS.
One and third fare for the round trip
was provided by the A., 7. & s. f. for
delegates to the Republican convention.
w. P. Bonbright, H. G. Lowe and Percy
Hagerman came in from the railroad
Friday. Mr.. Lowe is treasurer of the
Pecos Irrigation & Improvement Co. and
the Pecos Valley Railway Co. Mr.. Hager-
man is son of J.J. Hagerman, president
of the above mentioned companies.
The calling of Col. Lamison and Chief
Engineer Coleman east by Geographic or
der would seem to be significant of an
early and important move by the hackers
of the Santa Fe Southern. That extern
sion will be built this fall. Mark the
prophesy.
A Chicago attorney named Mayer,
closely identified with English invest
ments in American enterprises, tells the
New York papers that the Anglo meri-
can Investment company has several
schemes on foot each of which is big
investment in itself. 1t has placed So, 000,-
900 in railroads in Arizona and New
Mexico.
The A., T. & S. F. company is now
very short of cars for the mines and have
been for the past sixty days. The Off
Gals are satisfied if all take the interest in
this matter that should be taken by them,
this shortness need not be. In future
coal cars must not be used on the New
Mexico division for anything but coal.
Box and stock cars must not be loaded
with anything that can as we'll be loaded
on flat cars.
Says the Eddy Argus: Track-lsying on
the Pecos Valley railroad has been some
what delayed lately on account of the nom
arrival of steel, but the latest accounts
from the front state that work on the
track has been resumed and will be
pushed ahead very rapidly. The grading
crews are making good Roadway and Tie
contractors feel certain that the locomotive
will toot a welcome 10 Eddy by Novem-
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