Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-12-22
THE ID & X. &. ROAD AND
NEW NtXICO.
To the Editor of the New Mexican,

SANTA FE, Dec. 81 AS reader of the
New MEXICAN and the newspapers OF
Denver, | note with no small degree of
hope the interest manifested by the Den
yer press and people in the endeavor to
secure the extension OF railway lines
friendly to Colorado's commercial and in
dustrial welfare into New Mexico. The
Trinidad-Las Vegas El Paso project would
indeed OF Ell upas superb region of ountry,
which would cnutlbute argeIy to Druver's
pro, perity and greatly ber eft New Mex
leo, bu IN view uf the recen' agreement
entered INTO by the Western railway
presidents. part of which is tacit uu-
drrstandlng, according to the moving
spirit, Jay Gould not to build another
rod of new road for the next five Years,
there seems very little probability of Sc
curing the construction of this proposed
road, however desirable It may be as
viewed by the business men of Denver,
Las Vegas or Ell Paso.
President Mohat of the d. & r. G., is
more sincere ia dealing with the south
western delegation lately in Denver than
is Manager Meek, of the Union Pacific,
for Mr. Mofat saws pIaiuly that,
owing to the traffic agreement bv
which the D. & r. q is bound at
the present time and the fact that the D.
& r. q. directory has just unanimously
ratified the late presidents agreement"
his company will be unable to take up
the matter. Mr.. Week doubts if bonds
could be placed for the extension Of the
Union Pacific's Long canon extension
into New Mexico, but SAYS the PROPOSE
ton made by the Las Vegas-El Paso
delegation twill be submitted" In view
of Mr.. Gould's utteranCes respecting the
building OF new lines in the west for the
next five years" it does not require IA
prophet to fOresee what the result Ut this
Submission will be--simpiy the conslgn
nent of the proposition to convenient
pigeon-holes.
President Moffat's reply in the pre-.
Inises, it is noted with regret, applies
with equal force to any extension InfO
New Mexico either rom Trinidad or from
EspanOla sOutt-One may as well he hon
est about these things. So that there
really seems very little prospects that
there will be any improvement in rail,
way connections between the Col",
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But there is one move that the d. x r.
q. company can make, without building
any new road, that would prove of im-
mense benefit to Colorado and northern
New Mexico. 1t ought to buy out the
Santa Fe southern Ink of forty miles be-
tween Espanola and Santa Fe and run its
through trains and extend lis influence
at least to the capital Of the territory.
Under existing conditions this can be
done now, it is believed, on reasonable
basis, though should such an effort fail
no sympathy would be lost should the
d. Il r G as it now threatens to do,
withdraw its aid of the past and freeze"
the management of This link into doing
the reasonable thing all around. The
Santa Fe Southern and its management
has never been popular with the people;
it started wrong and it has always been
wrong, despite the efforts of the present
superintendent to improve the service.
But 1t is practically at the mercy of the
D. & r. q. line and lays in rut from
which it's management seems to be unable
of extricating it. Were it extended on to
the rich mining camps in south Santa Fe
county and thence through ijeras canon
to Albuquerque its position would be more
independent, aud it would then, by rea-
son OF the productive region penetrated,
become valuable property and be able
to make traffic agreement with the D.
d K. 4. that would com mand respect
but this it declines to do, even after as
sured OF Tree rlght'of-way through this