Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1891-02-21
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lNtfc " "a tNll..'l ~ 1NaUlh To W luo |I|
effect that ,hc y a Il g. railway PEG.
pie intend ~ take w that portion Ut
, their ira k between Au,uu,tu aud Ia.
pnuuln, Illus leaving the Texas, Santa 70 n
4 Nutlhctn with both crdn IN tie AR
running from no place to noNhot, aud
% It -ril TINT the good people ~ the hn
.crrut ,iy are very much worked w On -
account ~ tho e'urI hut they way i"a
sors their suuls ~ rntirncr That s.c.
b tlou ~ the u. \ Il q. railway ma, 6c, =
aud doubtlrrs -, very unptulitablc. but
1t has To- p,ay and the company hns to
' upctatcit. The coutts hn,e raSsed upon
. this question, aud /. has finally been dc. n
rldrl \ railway, when one" built bc
comes pcruancnt aud cannot bo taken
d, up a. tie option ~ IL" managers or
=, owners thercuR RnllWAyg ARE granted
certain pt,ll, gcs and advantages on tho
ground ~ being common carriers, and
' the ruuils have held that II they receive
!, and accept tho advantages ~ common
carriers they must nlsp discharge their
DUTIES \ case parallel to tins came up
y IN Kansas uuly lew mudths ago, tho
Missouri Pacific had built ~ branch
across from one ~ III lines t. another,
and rttrum,taurcr had arisen which
rendered tie operation ~ that branch
~ up Iuuerr prun,uG'r the company there
tore Determined to- abandon II, and d,a.
= continued tie truruDg = trans, but tho
" pruu'r took the matter into court and
very promptly eccurrd an order com.
, polling thr.tNrUa company to operate
o. Co., ruel Tine c1ur; held that since tho
p" road Tad u,ru established there and
"a, YAM p,r.uus had invested their
a., m.ury III imtrD,cmruts based on the
81. udNartagrG ID hc derived irum railway
communication with tuNua ON either
~ ridr = them, the road Mas bound To
81 MAINTAIN !, aud could not be- excused
frm IA Performance" = ds duty, even
. though such duty might br found To- be
y, uuproHtah,r To- the company. The Iudg
men, u tie court wa, IA fact, that the
- company should arncrtn,u IA advance
70 whether u road would hr profitable or
90 not. That there Mas no law requ,nuR
q. auy company or individual To- construct
Is a roni through any section ~ the coun'
p" ity, hui that hHNrg once constructed u
road through such section aud having
T., thereby induced persons To- invest their
~ money and their lahur upon the pronlso
|ut advantages thus offered, II had no right
nncrward To TAX" up the tuad aud thus
-, deprive tie settlers ~ the nhvnntaers
winch Ncrr, hy imphcntlou at Icns', "a
= part u the cordt,,us 4 thcrr settlement.
W Thus matter has been 80 thoroughly
discutscd aud su often Iussrd upon Ivy
Io thr rour,s, TINT there ~ no longer any
question ~ regard to the outcome az the
matter. The II. y /; &. railway company
having built hLc from Antunlto TO
E-paupA and taken the advantages of
Ices the privileges accorded tu common cav
ms rcrs, must continue To- maintain that
III section 81 ITS road, ~ common carrier,
Id ard must continue To- afford reasonable
'at Recommendations To- th" public Tor tho
les transportation OF passengers aud freight
rr There II no reasonable dbt OF tho
'ds fact that the section ut the ID. II. q.
to road running from Antunito to Espanoa
KY ~ very Improbable. but the company
nd cannot get out u the difficulty 10y tear
ns' ug up Its track. The only way out OF
nd the trouble ~ To do something to in.
ut crcasc and improve the business 81 the
"ns section, and thereby render II profitable.
BILE There Is only one way 10 do this, aud
tee that IN u way which seems To hc we'll
cal. known tu everybody except the lending
and spirits ~ thr u. ~ Il. q. company 10
EGG build the short section from EspanulA to
n IL Nbuqucrquc would reEder the entire
rye In" from AhUqucrIu" to Atomic as
hen profitable ~ any other Iual number OF
an miles ~ the entire system, and though
In. a. Of IA
nre thousand dollars at the start, It would
inns very soon hrus back all that It might
ot' ,ust together with good interest upon
re- all the rcma,uius portion u the line.
nth That the section Of the -. n H. q.
WI from AutouItn to Espanula ~ unpro,it-
TIA able nobody denies. Any business man
ales would know that without going Ia the
10y expense ~ demonstrating It, aud the
So only way Tor Ia" rond 10 overcome this
" OF difficulty nhd make the line profitable, IL
'cN "N,cLd It tu Albuquerque where II
'""n VIII secure u paying business.
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arly ru people ~ the United States seem
hns 10 ur fart becoming "a beer drinking mn.
that ton. According To tigurce furnished by
the the tulri Sta're internal revenue bu'
lnty rrGu, the amount ~ beer produced dur
iug the yrnt wus enough tu furnish every
this man, woman aud chd with about half
I'm barrel each. Tho total amount IN bar