Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-01-08

SATURDAY EVENING, JAN. 8. 1881
ORGANIC ALTON HAS BEEN EFF
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Meetings of the directors and stock.
holders Of the Las Vegas. MIRA and
Taos Railway Co were held yester-
day. permanent officers elected, by
lows adopted and the plans and policy
Of the company decided upon.
The officers are: F. A Manzinares,
president; Edward B. Wheeler. treas
urer; Robt. L. M. Ross, secretary and
general agent.
The company is now ready to trans.
act business, and from present indica-
tions its protpscts are bright. Tue
general agent wall assume dlrect chargr
OF all details connected with the CON-
pany's affairs, and has full authority
to act.
Both electricity and steam power
will be used the f,rmer for mail, pss-
senger. baggage and express services;
the ordinary locomotive will be en-
ployed for hauling freight trains. By
adopting the .scompound system"
greater economy and Eff ;iehcy will
obtain, under the uniq 10 90 adl ioas OF
this proposition, than If The railway
was operated by steam p ,wer NJ zoe.
II Is stated BY the general agent that
che company's policy will be- 10 direct
its affairs SO that conssruction-m Dney
will be kept at home and spent among
on. local merchants. In other words,
this is a home enterprise, conceived,
promoted, organized and managed by
Las Vegas people who have the best
interests Of their city at heart, or those
whose interests are closely identified
with our CITY, and it is now in order to
say, that the company merits the en-
tire coIfi ience OF our cit zens 10 every
respect, and their most liberal aid
should be given when asked for.
This railway will bring the granary
and richest part OF all New NJ. xico u
our very doors and make it practically
. suburb Of LIS Vegas. The amounr
of established business along the en-
tire route is a r. violation to those who
have not investigated 1t. Thousands
upon thousands Of 0 n OF the products
OF farm, gard n and forest are now
beng annually exported on wagons
from the section OF country through
which the railway will run. Conserv-
alive estimates place the popula
ton tributary to the line at not les
than Sc, 900; besides there are twenty
n post Offices to be served. As this
proposition is founded on actualities,
not guesses, its g~enuineness cannot be
disputed.
The line will be standard guage so
that through freights can be exchanged
with the Santa F. comp my without
unloading into other oars. II IS but
seldom indeed that such a feeder can
be found as the s.Aipine ronten INNS,
prove to be o the Santa Fe, simply by
reason of the great productivenrss of
the Mora and Taos valleys, and be-
cause nearly all freights now coming
out of or going into Taos and handle d
at Embudo aud Tres ciedras on the D.
& r G.. railroad will be diverted 10
Las Vegas by means Of this railway
Weget but q very small portion Of i'll
now, SO construction OF the L. ", NJ.
& I. railway win become a most i'm
portant factor in restoring to our MR.
chants a rich, a popuIous country In
place OF that which they have bsen
deprived by the building OF the U. P,
D & g. railroad the P~cps Valley
railroad and shs Fl Paso- Northeastern
railway into Lincoln county.
The construction of this railway TO
Taos means q great deal more to Las J