Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1896-05-16
A NEW ROAD.
The Santa Fe Nay Build 10 Sil.
yer City.
-Four Hundred Mile Line into South
erp California.
Pr, ,iient kipley'S visit 10 the toast Is In
the Interest u the knturriSe.
SuBvLY btlHG hApI


lUs AUktltr ftpits1
lhr santa Re Is projecting ali rutlfrl,
ur~ line. Practical! au alt linr. from
victor. III san Betnardlno county, h Sil'
,rf CITY, \. NJ. aud President Ripley dur
ing tue last few days has visited sll'ri
CiS and other points that would m
touched by the line.
Il IL undrrrt-s that Nr. Ripley Il c''nl'
iug here tu lu,k over the ground aud hear
She tryort ~ Engineer Vaughn, who the
other la, returned from the desert with
y -ur'rying party
The party left \irtot April II and pro
c,a,lrd by the mo-t direct route Ia Parker
station Oh the Colorado river, which II
distant tifty tour miles from the nearest
Atlantic n Pacific IS'In,. The mal'r "i
the pru,up.,.d routes we're carefully made
up. showing all the elevations aud other
inftuatiun. The line extends through
the rich central mining helt. passing the
l.--rt Queen mine and goinR directl,
through Virginia bale on the way.
M. Vaughn zays the aur,e, will be ex
irnd,Si uu y direct llnr through I" Sll'rt
lll,, y. NJ, which b, the very shortest
route IL estimated AT u distance of iW
ulilrs froul Victor. The part, making the
survey consisted of -is men, besides the
engineer, aud travelled b, forced marches
making the distance II III miles from
Victor W Parker III sixteen days. The
route IL declared to b- n very Easy aud
f.asible one.
Mr.. Vaughn nlakr ~ secret II the lln,
uf the survey, but viii not HaI whether
his employers ate the santa Re I""pl"
hut from the fact that h" has been III con
uultatiDn throughout With Santa Fe III
ciai-, II is easy to determine the project
uTs,
Il has been we'll known iact that th'
relations between the santa Ft system
and the Atlantic y Pacific have latel!
been much le,.s intimate than formerly
~ much ~ that the roads are now unde
separate rrceiyarship-.
III. Atlantic Il Pacific stockholders sr'
prnI months since offered Ia sell the roa'
for SiGIHU.uu. The officials "f the lat
ter, however, In view Of the chrspene'
railway construction. declined o Civ
more than $y,1OtU fn the property.
n the deal between the two roads can
not b- pfipcte.i II can b- very readily -reI
that IL will become necessary for the san
Ia Fe 10 build n connecting line, and
l. for this that the surveys are b-ih
made.
The line which II proposed would prov
4 far more valuable one than the Atlantl
4 Pacific, Aa IL would traverse n far ricl
rr country aud would b- hundreds
uiilrs shorter.
The directness Of the survey Jlst coii
pleted can be realized better when IL
uni.ratossd that Victor II at0ut fort
miles north of base line meridian. nj
Parker, Arizona. IL exactly on the meri
Ian.
The building of line oi railway ov
IN. recent survey would be 0f ine-timab
value tn Io- Angeles. San Brrnardino al
southern California nj large. In add'li'
\, the roads opening up some al The re
eSl xnd least developed gold bearing ~
iions Ia the west. II would prrcipitat"
fight for business between the santa
aud the ~ th.rn Pacific and n great
duction iD the present high freight a
passenger rates In Arizona and New Nv
leo would follow.