White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1896-06-25
A NETV RAILROAD SYSTEM.

The Rocky Mountain News of Monday has
very encouraging news bearing upon the
prospective connection of the Atlantic K
Pacific railway with the St. Louis & San
Francisco, to the presidency of which Alba
querque's old friend, d. B. Robinson, has
lately been elected. Tie News says
-. A.. Eddy is in the city, coming from New
York where With Lis brother Hon. c. b. Eddy,
he has been arranging for funds to finish the
Ell Paso d White Oaks railway already con-
structed ont from III paso, with the Pecos
Valley railway at Roswell, where j. J. Hager-
man proposes to push that road this summer
The new road viii be built through the rich
gold belt of southeastern New Mexico, via the
Iularosa IN 'untains, to White Oaks, and from
there by way of the great coal measures of TIE
Nogal region, through the Jicarilla gold belt
and along the RIO Ruidoso, the Penasco Rio
Bonito and Seven Rivers, along the bases of Fl
Captain, the Orgtn, the Sacramento the
White and Guadalupe mountans and touch
the towns Of White Oaks, Lincoln Nogal, Fort
Stanton, thence to Roswell.
when this road is completed Mr.. Hagerman
will connect his Pecos Valley road with the
Santa Fes Panhandle line at Washburn, Texas
Which Will give FL Paso direct line to Karsas
City one-half nearer than the present route"
To tie above may be added that from Wash
burn, in the Panhandle, the junction of the
Santa hc with the Denver, Texas & Fort Worth
TO Sapulpa, the end of the ST. Louis san
Francisco i'll the Indian territory, is scai cey
30l miles. With the construction of limo
filing this gap, in case Mr. EdIy's plans are
consunated, the St. Louis & San Francisco by
Using the Hagernan road TO Roswell and the
Eddy branch to White Oaks, will need to buid
less than 200 miles tf road from White Oaks
to Albuquerque to be in direct communication
with the Atlantic & Pacific railway at Albuqu
| cirque. such route would be much more
direct than the present route over the Santa
Fe to Albuquerque and the probability of the
construction OF these branches which are now
i'll course of organization increases the piob
ability of tie st, Louis & San Francisco figuring
as bidder in competition with the Santa Ft
for the Atlantic & Pacific road or making som
agreement with the bondholders of the lattel
property in case they conclude not to par
with it.
II is clearly to the interest OF Albuquerque
to have the Atlantic 4 Pacific road pass int,
other hands than the Santa Fe, and the pros
poets are improving that such will be the out
come.-Albuquerque Democrat.
The above program would be rta
uice and people here wonld rejoice It
witness the construction Of the road t.
Albuquerque, but any one who is famil
lar with the country through which tn,
route marked out by the NeWS is lai,
or who will consult a correct map OF tn,
same will at once zee that after maxim!
the tour Of oil the places named, There
will be nothing of it left for Albuquer
que. 1t Will be lost. A road built vii
the Tularosa mountains to White Oak
aud from there by way Of the grea
coal measures OF the Nogal region
through tue Jicarila gold belt anC
along the Rio Rnid, 50, the Penascc
Rio Bonito and Seven Rivers along tn
base of FL Captain, the Organ the Sa
cram ento, the White and Guadalup
mountains and the towns Of Whit
Oabs, Lincoln, Nogal, Fort Stanto
thence to Roswell" would be so CON
plcte aud exhaustive" system in an
Of itself that tho builders would hardl
care Tor any other outlet or connection
1t would at once become a through
trunk line. o. no, We could not a;Tor
TO associate With such out Of tho wa
places as Albuquerque il We shoul
secure this system.