El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-20
THE EX PEG TED HAPPENS.
The White Oaks Road Will not Stop at
White Oaks, but Will Extend.

1t has been ''pre iicted right along"
that the White Oaks road was not go
ing to be any Huckelberry outfit, lend
ing no here" up in the Sacramen; %
hills, but that an eastern outlet would
be fOurd in cue time, with the strong
prob bility of connection either with
the Rock Is,a ID, at Liberal, Kaus., or
with the Santa F'e al Epglewood in the
same state, which is hardly over so
miles from the Panha ndle line.
OF cour Sc the projectO rs of the
White Oass road had nothing to say.
The we're pipe laying" as the poll
ticians say, and until connections wer e
made and the joints screwed on. mum
was the word. But last evening,
every thing was in readiness and incor-
poratons articles of the new company
we're filed at Santa Fe with the ter
ritorial secretary of the White Oaks
and Kansas City Railway. TIE incor-
porators are: J: A. Eddy, w: A.
Hawkins, N A. Connor, G. L. Chris
tbs aud w. 81. Austin.
Directors: G. D. Simpson, of Scran-
too, Pa, B. S. Harmon and G. G w.
Lowry, of New York; Jno; A: Eddy,
kins, Max Frost, Of New Mexico.
Capital stock four milliol of dollars.
Max Frost ia tile editor of the Santa
| Fe New Mexican, and one of the best
known prom tiers of immigration in
he southwest The articles state thai
the rosd will run from the White
o Oaks tsr%inai through Ugh. Union Union
east to the Texas line, connecting
TO be charterei under the laws of the
stare Of Texas. And from thence the
line will be continued in q northeastern
ly direction.
Now just whether this latter will
wird up BIT Liberal aud eventually be-
come a part OF the Rock Islands sys-
tenn, the VIII; te Ooks Management will
not say-for obvious business reason;
and for the present, only such informa-
tiou is given outas may have q direct
bearing upon what articles of in
cooperation contain. However, other
railroad men VITO know how to put
this and that together. believe more
than ever, tn 1T tn 8 whole thing is q
Rock Island scheme: and that the
great corporation having fallen down
IL its attempt to bt at Uncle Russell
b old of the Texas 81 Pacific system, has
fou" d'another way'to reach rhesEl ,Paso
gateway, viz. via Liberal and t. White
Oaks & Kansas City and FL Paso g.
Northeastern lines. This will
give the Rock Island q
straight shoot into Ell Paso
without any mountain rsng-s to
climb over, and shorten the distance to
Chicago 250 miles, TO say nothing abous
| the time gained in not being oblige to
slow up in climbing hills. A signif-
{ ant inoi-ation of which way the wind
| is blowing is the size and mum Der of th e
| engines ordered from the Baldwin
| locomotive works by the White Oaks
| management. These immse machines
are as large, if not larger than the big
/ Cookes bought by the Southern Paci6c
company for hauling heavy freight
| trains between Del Rio and Tucson. It
was remarked not.long ago by the HER
; AID that l !comotives of this size were
| for no little one horse road, and events
are justify ing the rem ark. At this time
! of w iting, 1000 feet of track have been
! laid up on the Mesa, and as the ties
are no" coming in rapidly, track lay
ing is b-iog pushed at 4 fast gait
/ 1t has also been ped cted locally by
| well posted railroad men that when
the Rock Island has at Ter 9Th shown
is hand, it will be found to have also
, secured coz troll of tie Ell Paso South
ern. the Ccrralitns road to Casas Gu an
des, and Col. A K. Ovens projec' ed
line from CASKS Grsndes to Tolohampo
hay. The with south wes1e rn Pari-
tic ocean con ion. the Rock Island
1 will be strictly in the swim.