Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-04-08
Ell PAS0 4 NORTHEASTERN.
Forty-eight Miles of Track Completed
Aims Of the Alamo Gordo & Sacramento
Mountain Road--Valuable Ell Paso
Terminals B. Eddy on
the Ground.

Ell Paso, Tex, April 6, 1s9s.-Every.
thing connected with the construction
of the Ell Paso & Northeastern railroad
is in a satisfactory condition and NOV
ing smoothly and nicely. The road is
completed out of Ell Paso just 4s miles,
and the construction work has been
done in a first-class and substantial
manner, but the construction company
has still charge of the track, and the
operating department has not yet
received the completed mileage. AS
soon as the road reaches the Jarilla
mountains, SIS miles from Ell Paso and
even miles from the present end Of the
track, this completed portion will be
turned over to the operating depart
ment and regular and constant opera
ton of this IS miles will then ON
mence. This, it is expected, will be the
case by the 18th of this month. The
construction company is going ahead at
I the rate Of about three-fourths of a mile
of completed track per day. The first
| station out from Ell Paso is Fort Bliss,
in Texas, and the next is Hueco, which
is in New Mexico.
This station has been named as the
temporary principal place of business
of the Alamo Gordo & Sacramento
Mountain railroad. This is only a tenn
porary arrangement, as the principal
place of business of the new road will
be at Alamo GOrdo, a station and new
town about three and a half miles south
east from the present town of La Luz.
AT this point the Ell Paso & Northeast
ern will be intersected by the Alamo
Gordo & Sacramento Mountain rail
road, which will run up into the rich
and fertile agricultural and timber sec
tions of the Sacramento mountains, and
when it reaches the crest, will have
many branches extending in various
directions, and it is presumed will have
between rs and 100 miles of trackage in
these branches. The object of this new
road is to tap the fruit raising anc
potato and cereal growing valleys anc
to open up the fine timber belt located
therein. 1t is highly probable, that the
result of this will be the building of
new town right in the heart of the Sa
cramento mountains and on the very
crest of the same, where tens of thou
sands of acres of the finest land imagin
man.
1t has not been determined as yet
whether the Alamo Gordo & Sacramen
to road is to be broad or narrow gauge
but that it will be built as soon or be
fore the Ell Paso & Northeastern reaches
the Salado coal fields, there is nj doubt
The road will give the people of E
Paso within a comfortable ride of foul
hours several magnificent and cool sum
mer resorts and fine hunting and fishing
and from this source alone will enjoy {
fine income during the months of June
July, August and September, which a.
people down here know full well, arr
rather warm in Ell Paso; indeed, if thu
truth must be told, they are quite no
and everybody, who can, will be very
glad to get away to the cool, quiet ant
comfortable glades, forests, canOns
trout streams and valleys of the beauti
full Sacramento mountains. 1t is also
very probable, that work on the Alamo
Gordo & Sacramento Mountain railroad
may commence as soon as the Ell Pas(
g. Northeastern reaches Alamo Gordt
station, in order that ties may be haulet
down over it from the vast timber belt,
in the Sacramentos to be used in thu
construction Of the FL Paso & North
eastern from Alamo Gordo to the Saladt
coal fields. This has not been fully de
termined yet, but is under consideration
The Ell Paso Il Northeastern, in con
junction with the Southern Pacific, ha!
entered into a contract with the city o
FL Paso, by which the road has secured
valuable terminals in the southern par
of the city in return for the construction
and completion of a levee around thu
entire southern part of Ell Paso. Thi
levce is to be as high as the highes
w%atermark in 1897, and is to have tw,
railroad tracks on top of it, each witt
Ia feet centers. The work thereon |
now in progress and will be completes
before the high water in the Rio Grand,
reaches here this season.
Mr.. G. B. Eddy, president Of the E
Paso & Northeastern railroad, reaches
here on Sunday with a party of eastern
capitalists, who are on a general trip Q
inspection of the country through whic]
the road passes and of the road itself
They are here in a representative capac
ity and the future action and plans Q
the railroad management and the va
rious enterprises, connected with II
will be fully settled and determines
before their departure. War news d
not scare these gentlemen and, war o
no war, the enterprises mentioned viii
go ahead steadily and without interrup
ton until completed, and that will b
the case within the next few months an,
before the end Of the year Of grace
1893.