Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-05-31
TIE TRlNIDAD-EI pAso.


the various enterprises that are work
ing out for the development of New
Mexico, the Trinidad, Las Vegas &c
White Oaks railroad project promises
more and better result than any COM
bination of several others that might
be made. Beginning at Trinidad, a
junction point with several other
lines of railroad that, under the usual
competition for business, would
afford it every facility and favor, it
would pass through and develop the
finest part of that princely estate, the
great Maxwell grant. The Sun is
advised that the owners of that
property have finally enlarged their
former liberal concession of right of
way and some other additional bonus
to such an extent that it now includes
free timber for ties, telegraph poles,
bridge timbers of all kinds and lum-
Der for necessary buildings for the
entire line to Ell Paso. This is
princely concession, of itself worth
Millions concession which should
and doubtless will facilitate the
pouring of the enterprise into the
capitalistic ear. Leaving this estate
the line will pass through fine agri
cultural and grazing country to Las
Vegas, the chief trading center and
metropolis of northeastern New
Mexico, thence again on down
through an open country, rich in
agricultural and grazing resources,
until it reaches the richest part of
undeveloped New Mexico - the
White Oaks country with its gold
and silver mines, its immense coal
beds, it's extensive marble quarries,
its vast deposits of gypsum and soda,
etc, thence on TO Ell Paso, the gate
way to Mexico. This line, besides
developing the richest part of New
Mexico, will form a much needed
competing and developing connec-
ton between the central Rocky
mountain country, of which Denver
is the metropolis and inspiration,
and Ell Paso with all its influences
reaching far down into the richest
portions of Mexico. 1t requires but
a glance at the situation to appreci-
ate the magnitude of the developing
influences this line would have on
this territory. Passing along the
base of the range on the eastern
slope, spurs and branches would
speedily be run out into the noun
tains reaching the mineral deposits,
coal beds, and timber belts, and a
connection would doubtless speedily
be made between this line and the
Pecos Valley road, thus giving the
eastern half of New Mexico such
railroad facilities as seem to be the
one thing needful for its proper de-
velopment and progress. Then, too
the ID. 81 r. G.-Santa Fe Southern
narrow gauge system which ends at
this city, would find it very desirable
to extend on to connection with this
line. This would give the capital,
county and northwestern New Mex
leo a part at least of its desired and
proposed railroad development. And
last but not least, nothing, in the
Suns judgment, would so contribute
to the building of the Durango-Albu-
querque connection as the construo-
ton as the Trliidad-El Paso line.
This would complete the direct rail
connection between the northwest
and the Gulf. The Sun is we'll ad.
vised that north and south lines are
not popular projects nor have they
been heretofore paying roads where
built, but the situation with respect
to this line seems to us to be decid-
edly exceptional and unusually
promising. Next to statehood the
Trnidad-El Paso enterprise seems
to the Sun to be the desirable thing
for the development of New Mexico,
hence the whole territory should
stand ready at all times to strike
blow for its speedy consummation.-
5. +. Sun.
Any one proving to our satisfac-