Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-06-06
RAILROAD MATTERS.
Officers of Santa Fe & COchiti Railway
COmpany-Line Will Soon Be LO-
cated-What the Sale of the
Texas. Santa Fe & North
ern Means.


of the Santa Fe & Cochitl Railway com
pany held meeting at the Palace hotel
In this city, on last Friday, and elected
the following officers: Edward H. Berg
mann, president; Samuel Eldodt, vice
president; James H. Purdy, secretary, and
Herman Claussen, treasurer.
An eminent engineer has been en-
ployed, and, with his corps of assistants
will reach the field early in the coming
week to survey and lay out the line OF
road from Santa Fe to White Rock canon
and thence to Bland, and also to locate
the two dams in the White Rock canon
and the ditch lines of the Rio Grandt
Electric Power company.
The only question, if any, that has evel
arisen as to the success of these associate
enterprises related to the quantity rather
than the quality of the ore of the Cochit
mining district. Thorough examinations
having been made and com pleted; there
is found ore actually in sight that vii
many times pay for shipment and profit
able reduction at the river, half million
tons, whose freight alone guarantees sew
eral times the cost of building the road
and that the quantity of pay ore in the
district is practically inexhaustible there
ia no longer any doubt.
This guarantees the achievements CON
templated by these splendid enterprises
namely: The capturing and training OF
. ha OF 70 IF tho Rin (4FQn6e
and putting them to work perpetually in
cheaply transporting and reducing the
Cochiti ores at the river by electric
energy, and also in using these same
waters again in making gardens, farms
and orchards of immense areas of land
till now almost valueless.
It needs no prophet to tell what to the
people of this locality means the working
day and night forever of the endless
powers of the Rio Grande captured and
chained. 1t means workshops and fac
tories and the constant employment and
enrichment of thousands of men in minet
and mills, in garden and field. 1t means
wealth and homes and happiness to thou
sands now idle and comparatively des
| titute.
SALE VI The NAhhOW tAUtE.
Speaking of the sale of the T., s. F. 4
N. road, the Denver Republican says:
The Texas, Santa Fe & Northern rail
way is about forty miles in length and
runs between EspanoIa, New Mexico, and
Santa Fe. Espanola is the southern ter
minus of the Rio Grande. Santa Fe I'M
til yesterday was not upon any main line
of road. Although the greatest railway
system in the world took its popular
name from the ancient city, the fact is
that the city of Santa Fe is on branch
railroad of the Santa Fe railway, and or
Colorado through line by means of the
Texas, Santa Fe & Northern narrow
gauge road. Excepting for the business
which the Rio Grande chose to give it
the Texas, Santa Fe 4 Northern was en-
tirely without any.
The purchase of the short line viii
prove of vast importance to New Mex
leans, rs it ia we'll understood in Denver
that the plans Of President jeffrey are t.
make large improvements in New Mexico
For long time now the Rio Grande hal
actually operated the short line, Ri
Grande trains being the only ones whicl
ran over the connection. However, no
owning or controlling the property, tn
big system could not take any interes
in the condition of the short lie, and tn
roadbed and other properties wer
permitted to run we'll on to decay. 1t va
stated in Denver recently that there wa
not bridge on the entire length of tn
short line fit to run a train over. Nov
the Rio Grande will of necessity be com
PEELED to spend money in New Mexico AM
Santa Fe will be the gamer.
1t is now asserted on good authorit
that while in England President Jeffre
will negotiate funds for carrying tn
southern terminal of the Rio Grande sys
tenn to Albuquerque.