Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-10-22
RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.
New Projects Inaugurated East and
West of the Capital Oity-The D.
& R. G. Extension.
What are Santa Feans Doing to Secure 1t?
President jeffrey Coming-Time
for Work.

1t is plain to see that some railroad
building is to be done in New Mexico
within the next year. The situation has
now taken on such shape that it is worth
the best efforts of the leading business
men of Santa Fe to begin now and see to
it that the capital city is not again left to
the mercy OF "a branch"
The Trinidad-Las Vegas-El Paso enter
prise is getting on swimmingly. Denver,
Pueblo, Trinidad, Las Vegas, White Oaks
and Ell Paso bave raised their respective
quota OF the funds necessary
TO COMPLETE THE SURVEY
of this line and the executive committee,
which met at Las Vegas yesterday, was
fully organized for work and the commit
| tee on promotion authorized to employ
civil engineers and complete the survey
within ninety days from November L."
This is real progress. In addition an
expert was ordered employed to 60 over
the entire route and report upon its re-
sources developed and undeveloped. With
such showing as this expert can make
| there is no reason to doubt that capital
can be had to build this road. In all
| likelihood the Union Pacific and Jay
! Gould are engineering the whole busl-
ness.
So much for the enterprise east and
south of Santa Fe. Now take a look
TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST.
Albuquerque seems to have lost much
of it's interest in the effort to secure the
extension of the D. & r. G. from this
city via the coal and mineral fields of
Santa Fe county, and has, as it were,
| wandered off after strange railroad gods
further to the west and leading direct to
Durango. The sum of $4,000 has been
raised in the Duke city and survey from
that point is in progress looking to the
building of line via Jemez hot springs
and Pennington to Durango to connect
with Otto Mears' Rio Grande Southern
cutoff to Grand Junction, Salt Lake and
the far west and northwest. }. r. Hanna,
of Montezuma valley, who is at the head
of this project, is known to be
BACKED BY THE HAvEMEYERs,
sugar refinery kings of New York, and
other strong financiers of the east. The
proposed line opens up new country
and bears the stamp OF feasibility in every
particular.
Here, on either side of Santa Fe, is
work going on looking to an improve
ment in New Mexico's railroad facilities.
What is to be done on behalf of Santa Fe
and the wonderfully rich region lying
south of this city in the triangle having
Santa Fe, Albuquerque and White Oaks
for its converglng points? This region
covers the very heart of New Mexico.
ITS RESOURCES,
developed and undeveloped. are prac-
tically unlimited. An extension of the
narrow gauge system can penetrate this
center by building less than half the
number of miles any other road will
have to build. Is it not worth the while
of the people of Santa Fe, Cerrillos and
San Pedro to impress this fact upon the
d. & r. Il. management? President
Jeffrey will be here next week to familiar
lze himself with the situation. The
exact date of his arrival will be announced
in few days, but
IN THE MEANTIME
let the Board of Trade appoint special
committees to receive and entertain Mr..
Jeffrey and pay special attention to the
gathering of statistical data showing
what benefits the road would receive by
pushing the extension southwark.