Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-11-16
AMONG THE RAILWAYS.


President jeffrey and party made two
stops en- route to Denver from Santa Fe
the other day, and the trip was made in
twenty-three hours, which is counted
pretty good travel over narrow gauge.
Mr.. Jeffrey tells the Denver newspapers
that he was cordially welcomed every
where in southern Colorado and northern
New Mexico. In an interview with the
Denver Sun he said:
"In New Mexico we were the recipients
of reception from the business men of
Santa Fe. They asked for traffic agree
ment with the Santa Fe Southern, running
from Espanola to Santa Fe, so that the
Rio Grande might make through rates in
competition with the Santa Fe.
81 promised to look over the matter, and
also to consider the request to extend the
narrow gauge system to Albuquerque and
! Cerrllos. We left Santa Fe Thursday
morning, and made the distance of about
500 miles in twenty-three hours"
Mr.. Jeffrey will go east in few days,
and will be gone about ten days. Upon
his return he has promised to 90 over the
country between Santa Fe and Albuquer.
que and view its resources.
| RAIL NOTES.
Hon. Otto Mears expects to finish his
DURANGO Rico line by December l. There
are sixteen miles of rails yet to be laid.
There will be mass meeting of San
Juan county's citizens at Pennington, to-
night, for the purpose of considering mat
ters of interest to a railroad.
The long promised change OF time on
the Santa Fe, giving New Mexico a day
! light train will, it is now claimed, 60 into
effect some time this week.
7. ii. McCrickett in charge of the sur
vey OF the proposed Trinidad & Ell Paso
short line railroad survey, has left Trinidad
for Las Vegas with his surveying corps.
Major Hanna's corps of engineers is in
the field, and the entire party was camped
at Aztec couple of days last week.
Thence they went to San Juan and took
up the work on the line of the survey
made last year, and went up Canon
Largo. The party consists of about
fifteen men admirably equipped for field
work, and it Is Major Hanna's intention
to push the survey to completion as rapid
ly as possibe.-San Juan Index.
A London cablegram says that John W
Young's negotiations for money to builC
the Demng line into Mexico are going or
very satisfactorily. The Headlight says
Mr.. G. Webb left yesterday for his grad
ing camp on the line of the Mexican
Northwestern railway, with anothe
months supply of provisions and equip
$ ments. Mr.. Webb has two gradin,
7 camps on that line, and has continued
prosecution of the work without cessation
since taking the contract, sometime il
Q the summer.
Albuquerque Citizen: 1t is intererest
ing to know that the promoters anC
owners of the Pecos valley road are max
ing preparations to push their line through
from Eddy to Albuquerque. Mr.. Field
Col. Stoll and other prominent gentle
men of the Indiana editorial party, STATED
when here recently that during theil
stay in Eddy they were informed by the
leading citizens of that place, including
Mr.. Eddy himself, that they looked tc
this part of the country for their market
and that their arrangements were then
being perfected for the necessary capita
with which to push the line on to Albu
querque, and they expect to be able tc
commence the work of construction dur
ing the coming season.