Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-04-19
Eifty-6ve Miles Completed Bust
ness Commenced Description Of
Country Through Which Road
Goes--New Town Of
Alamogordo.
GREAT SCENIC ATTRACTIONS
Magnificent Agricultural, Timber and Min
eral Oountry-To Reach Alamo
gordo May 10.

Special Correspondence New Mexican.
Ell Paso, Tex, April 1.-THE Ell Paso
& Northeastern railway has reached a
point IS miles north of Ell Paso and
about the north end of the Jarilla noun
tains. Construction work is going OF at
the rate of a mile per day and the new
town of ~Alamogordo, which will become
a very important station on the road and
is 30 miles from the end of the track,
will be reached by May Is. There is
plenty of material now on hand to finish
the road to that point. The rails that
are being used are of the best ~6O-pound
steel quality, furnished by the Colorado
Coal & Iron company. A thousand tons
of these have just been received.
Doing Good Business Already.
From the end of the track, Sam Men
denhall, we'll known all over New Mex
leo, is now running four-horse coaches
to the new town of Alamogordo, 80
miles north, to La Luz, five miles further
north and to T%ularosa, IA miles further
north. He is dong a rushing business
transporting passengers and express and
%freighting. The freight business of the
road has already assumed fair proper
tions, all the freight for the vast Sacra.
mento and White Mountain country be.
ing taken to the end of the track and
then loaded in wagons and hauled north
by teams. Trains leave Ell Paso regu-
larly at 1 { o'clock every afternoon, run.
ming to the end of the track, there con
Meeting with Mendenhalls stage and
freight lines. Passenger travel is re-
ported good and many settlers are going
into the country. The United States
land Office at Las Cruces is getting more
business from that section than from
the remainder of the entire district and
the land office officials are being kept
quite busy with homestead entries and
other land business from eastern Dona
Ana county.
Fine Stock Country.
As soon as one reaches the New Mex
leo lines, 20 miles north of Ell Paso, a
magnificent grazing country is entered
with scarcely any stock as yet. Water
can be. had in wells from $50 to 200 feet
ideep anywhere on that extensive plain
and several sheep and cattle outfits are
going in and starting ranches. Nearly
10000 head of sheep, brought from
Mexico, have been driven in there dur
ing the last month and several thousand
head of cattle will be placed on the
range very o There is o for
many, many thousands head of cattle
and sheep. The range and the grass
are there and the water can be had by
digging and stockmen are already TAX
ing advantage of these facts.
First Shipment of Ore.
The first shipment Of ores from the
Jarilla mountain mining districts will
be made on tomorrow, Monday, when
four carloads of ore from De Meules
7-come-11 mines will be shipped to FL
Paso, two carloads for the Ell Paso
smelters and two for the Silver City
reduction works. The Jarillas con-
tain great quantities of iron ores, run
ming away up and copper and gold ores.
The development of the camp is still in
it's infancy, but with rail connection
with Ell Paso and cheap transportation
for ores, the development will take a
mighty squirt upwards. Many prospec-
tors are going into the Jarillas already
and your correspondent believes the
camp will soon give a very good account
of itself. If nothing else, the rich iron
ores, there in abundance, will be used
by the Ell Paso smelters and will GER
tainly amount to several carloads per
day.
New City.
The grades of the road are very easy
and the tangents and curves are few
and far between. For miles and miles
the road stretches in straight lines as
far as the eve can reach. At Alamo
gordo it is proposed to- lay out a new
town, which will be headquarters for
the Ell Paso & Northeastern railroad in
terests in New Mexico. A townsite of
960 acres will be laid out with broad,
wide streets, squares, lots for schools,
and plated for all modern conveniences
and Improvements. The climate is de-
lightful all the year around, the town
being situated right at the foot of the
Sacramento mountains. Water will be
brought from the Alamo and Fresnal
creeks and it is the purest and best of
water. Application has been made for
the establishment of a postoffice and the
appointment of a postmaster there. The
streets will be planted with trees and
graded and fully improved as soon as the
townsite is surveyed.
Another Railroad.
From Alamogordo to the top of the
Sacramento mountains, where a mag
niicent mesa or table land is located, Is
q distance of about 20 miles. As sOOn
as the Ell Paso & Northeastern reaches
the new town, construction work will
at once commence on the AlamagOrdo
& Sacramento railroad in order to reach
the rich timber belts on the table lands
and In the mountains, from which ties, /
bridge timber, telegraph poles and the
like will be secured for the road and the
extension north into the SaladO coal
fields.
Fin Agricultural and Timber Country.
These table lands have an average alti-
tude of between $500 and 1900 feet,
are covered with the best of timber, as
fine as any In the north or southwest,
and after clearing, are specially suitable
for the raising Of potatoes and small
The scenery Is superb, the fish
in the many mountain streams is
excellent and there Is still much big
game to be hunted. The climate is
about the same as that Of Santa Fe,
cool in summer and no colder in winter,
although on account Of the higher alti-
tude, the snow remains longer on the
ground and what is best, crops on this
land can be raised with no, or very
little, irrigation. The Alamogordo and
Sacramento railroad proposes to extend
its lines in time, through the various
rich mountain valleys and passes of the
and the system when com.
will be about 100 miles In length,
connecting the principal valleys and
Grand Scenic Attractions.