El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-28

CITY and for railroads, centerlng there
and for the supply Of the shelters and
mining camps tributary, OF about A.
900 tons of coal and of about 20
900 tons of coke per month, of which
! the Ell Paso North eastern proposes to
get is share. That it will do so, adj
mits of no doubt as it will have haul
of about 10 miles ell down grade as
against bauls of from 800 miles and
more, now in operation by other roads
for coal supplies. The coal in Lincoln
county has been thoroughly tested and
is considered just such as to make it a
strong competitor in the Ell Paso
! market.
: SURVEYS AND CONSTRUCTION WORK.
The line is being surveyed now and
definite location viii be adopted with
in ten days. For the past two months
a survey ing corps has been engaged in
that task and Mr.. John A. Eddy, one
of the directors has gone over the sew
eral preliminary surveys and proposed
routes very carefully and will have
! bis report ready by that time. Presi
| dent Eddy expects to return tonight to
| Ell Paso and will imm ediately let con-
tracts of grading, track-laying, bridge
| building. for ties, timber, etc, and eX-
| pects active construction work to
commence by the first of the coming
month of November. Mr.. John A.
| Eddy will have charge Of construction
and other work and will fill an i'm
| pOrtant rOsitiOn On the road,
RESOURCES AND PROSPECTIVE BUSI-
NESS.
In addition to the coal business,
| which it is admitted will b. great and
| increasing from the day of completion,
the road will open up one of the finest
agricultural sections of the southwest
in the Sacramento and White noun
tains, where there are numerous val
ley5 and table lands, where extensive
crops OF potatoes, oats, rye, barley.
wheat and alfalfa can be raised aud
where many tens OF thousands of acres
of the finest agricultural lands on the
continent await the settler, the farmer
and the ranchman. The timber re-
sources of this region, consisting of
pine, spruce and fir, are also great.
Reliable men thoroughly acquainted
with the Sacramento and White noun
tains, state thai the lands available
for agriculture there will sustain many
thousands of people, the estimate be-
ing a population of about 10000. The
potato crop alone, that can be raised
there would easily supply all Of New
Mexico and Arizona. Texas aud two or
three states of northern Mexico. Ex
perts assert, and with great reason,
that within a few years the agricu'-
tural products of that section will give
the road lucrative and increasing
fire ght business. The great Tu.arosa
| valley is an ideal graz ng country for
cattle and sheep ana much business
;; VIII be derived from these industries.
The mineral resources of the Ja"ill as.
of Black mouutaiD, of the San Andres,
| Ito which a branch line is cOntemplat-
| ed of the Sacramento and White
mountains and around Nogal and
White Oaks are extensive and rich and
| the mineral development of the section
| will receive by the building of this
road such au enormous stimulOus as to
make the ore output and the haulirg
of supplies for the numerous mining
camps, now existing and that will
spring Up, also a source of profit and
business for the Ell Paso & Northeast
ern.
TINE OF COMPLETION.
The first 10 miles of road, Mr.. Eddy
expects, to have Completed within II
NO j tbs, and by tina. date trains at 30
miles an hour will scoot up the Tula-
rosa valley and will awaken the echo S
OF the beautiful mountain ranges to the
east and west and d new civilization
will take the place Of the solitude that
| has held sway there for thousands OF
years. The contract for the construc-
lion of the entire trackage was entered
road company and the New Mex CO Rail
way 81 Coal company, that is to do the
work. Tne SineWS OF war, the almighty
dollars, are in the treasury aad the
work will be prosecuted with Mr.
Eddy's we'll known and usual energy,
sagacity, Vim and push, and therein he
will be assisted by Mr. John A. Eddy,
who is a IN N OF fine executive ability
of much experience. The enterprise
| /, ha al n h
fine business management aud large
experience can place it and is the first
true and important harbinger of the
good aud prosperous times, that will
strike sunny New Mexico heuceforth.
CREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE
The credit for the successful bring,
ing about of this great and valuable
enterprise belongs principally to Mr.
G, Is EDDY. For two long years and
during the most depres sirg financial
times he devoted al his time in thi.
work. He had much to contend with
Eastern capitalists were afraid to invesl
money in New Mexico; they were
afraid to put out money at all; they fell
inclined to hold on to the capital AZ
against every favorable consideration
but Mr.. Eddy's great pluck, iudom
table energy, cogent aud lucid rea
so.ing ard constant persistency car
ried the day and now his long and hare
4bor5 are ending in fruiLion. Mr.
Eddy is too well known to tue people
of the territory to need any encomium,
at the hands OF this journal. Next I.
Mr. Eddy, Mr.. G. D. Simpson
one of the largest, shrewdest and mos
succes sful coal operators IL the United
States, with headquarters at Scran
ton, Pa, is the man TO be mentioned
who did great deal toward the sue
cess and completion of the organization
, chronicled above, Mr., Simpson from