Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-10-21


The primary object of the building of
the road being the tapping and working
of this COAL to be hauled to Ell Paso
for the market, which consists, for
that city and for railroads, centering
there and for the supply of the smelters
and mining camps tributary, of about 45,
600 tons of coal and of about 10000 tona
OF coke per month, of which the Ell Paso
Northeastern proposes to get its
share. That it will do 80, admits of no
doubt as it will have haul of about 40
miles all down grade as against hauls of
from 500 miles and more, now in opera
tion by other roads for coal supplies.
The coal in Lincoln county has been
thoroughly tested and is considered just
such as to make it strong competitor in
the Ell Paso market.
SURVEYS AND CONSTRUCTION WORK.
The line is being surveyed now and a
definite location will be adopted within
ten days. For the past two months a
surveying corps has been engaged in that
task and Mr.. John A. Eddy, one of the
directors, has gone over the several prelim-
mary surveys and proposed routes very
carefully and will have his report ready
by that time. President Eddy expects to
return tonight to Ell Paso and will imme-
diately let contracts for grading, track
laying, bodybuilding, for ties, tim
Der, etc., and expects active construction
work to commence by the first of the COM
ing month of November. Mr.. John A..
Eddy will have charge of construction
and other work and will fill an i'm portant
position on the road.
RESOURCES AND PROSPECTIVE BUSINESS.
In addition to the coal business, which
it ls admitted will be great and increas-
ing from the day of completion, the road
will open up one of the finest agricultural
sections of the southwest in the Saora-
mento and White mountains, where there
are numerous valleys and table lands, where
extensive crops of potatoes, oats, rye,
barley, wheat and alfalfa can be raised
and where many tens of thousands of
acres of the finest agricultural lands on
the continent await the settler, the farm
err and the ranohman. 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 mountains, state
that the lands available for agriculture
there will sustain many thousands of PEG.
pie, the estimate being population
of about $4,000. The potato crop alone,
that can be raised there, would easily
supply all of New Mexico and Arizona,
Texas and two or three states of northern
Mexico. Experts assert, and with great
reason, that within few years the agri
cultural products of that section will give
the road lucrative and increasing freight
business. The great Tularosa valley is
an ideal grazing country for cattle and
sheep and much business will be derived
from these industries. The mineral re.
sources of the Jarillas, of Black noun
tain, of the San Andres, Ito which branch
line is contemplated) of the Sacramen-
to and White mountains and around No
gal and White Oaks are extensive and
rich and the mineral development of the
section will receive by the building of
this road such an enormous stimulus as
to make the ore output and the hauling
of supplies for the numerous mining
camps, now existing and that will spring
up, also source of profit and business
for the Ell Paso & Northeastern.
TIME OF COMPLETION.
The first 40 miles of road Mr.. Eddy
expects, to have completed within
II months, and by that date trains at 30
miles an hour will sooot up the Tularosa
valley and will awaken the echoes of the
beautiful mountain ranges to the east and
west and new civilization will take the
place of the solitude that has held sway
there for thousands of years. The con-
tract for the construction of the entire
trackage was entered into and signed to-
day between the railroad company and
the New Mexico Rail Il Coal company,
that is to do the work. The 81 news of
war, the almighty dollars, are in the
treasury and the work will be prosecuted
with Mr.. Eddy's we'll known and usual ener-
~, sagacity, vim and push, and therein he
will be assisted by Mr.. John A. Eddy,
who is man of fine executive ability
of much experience. The enterprise is
on as solid a basis, as the ready cash,
fine business management and large ex-
perience can place it and is the first true
and important harbiDger of the good and
times, that will strike sunny
New Mexico henceforth.
CREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE.
The credit for the successful bringing
about of this great and valuable enterprise
belongs principally to Mr. G. B. Eddy. For
Two long years and during the most de-
pressing financial times he devoted all his
lime in this work. He had much to con.
lend with. Eastern capitalists were
afraid to invest money in New Mexico;
hey were afraid to ut out money at all;
they felt Inclined to hold on to the oapi-
'aI as against every favorable considera-
lion, but Mr.. Eddy's great pluck, indom.
table energy, oogent and lucid reasoning
Ind constant presidency carried the day
md now his long and hard labors are
'ndipg in frnition. Mr.. Eddy is too we'll
Known to the people of the territory to
iced any encomiums at the hands of this
ournal Next to Mr.. Eddy, Mr.. @. D.
simpson, one OF the largest, shrewde st
md most successful coal operators in the
United States, with headquarters at Scran.
on, Pa, is the man to be mentioned, who ,
lid great deal toward the success and
om pletion OF the organization chroni-
led above. Mr.. Simpson from the fret,
aw that Mr.. Eddy was correct in his
premises, that the project il carried out,
would prove of incalcuIable benefit and
ure and safe financial returns; that il
Vould open up grand, new country and
hat it's folfllment was demanded by {
he exigencies of the situation and of the {
lines. Mr.. Simpson and party of seven ,
ther capitalists and men of affairs we'll :.
nd favorably known in the financial
world, all engaged in the coal trade, with
DR.. Eddy made thorough personal ex-
animation Of the country and of the re 8
ourcee, and ofthe question ola profitable I.
md sure investment of capital in this en-.
erprise and the results are, that the cash Q