Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-10-17
GOING SOUTHWARK
The Pecos Valley Railroad Will Be
Extended Southerly As Well
As Northerly'
ROAD GOING TO BOQUILLAS
President Hagerman Fully Alive to the
Opportunities Afforded by Extension
of Mexican Northern to the
Rio Grande.

Ever since the Kansas City ConSoli-
dated Smelling and Refining Company
started in to operate their Carmen
mines in the northeastern part of the
state Of Chihuahua there has been talk
of rail connections northward to con-
meet with the Southern Pacific road al
Marathon. over 250 miles east of Ell
Paso where is located the big nine
stack plant of the smelling company
The town of Carmen is located on the
Mexican side of the Rio Grande oppo-
site Boquillas, and concentrated ores
are brought in from the Carmen mines
and swung over the river by cable cars,
and then hauled so miles to the railroad
The company has expended $500 in
building a good wagon road within the
last two years from Boquillas, in Brew
ster county, Texas, to Marathon sta
ton, but it was evident enough, as tho
operations in the Carmen district in
creased, that more speedy and less
costly methods of carriage would have
to be employed sooner or later, and that
time is evidently close at hand.
The intention of the Mexican North
ern road has hastened this. The com-
pany has been exploiting up through
the country between its extensive
mines at Sierra Mojada on the Chi
huahua- -Coahuila border and the RiN
Grande river at Carmen Boquillas, and
ba or, do
ifest than ever what was generally re.
ported and believed before, that mines
Of marked promise exist all the way be-
tween the points above mentioned
Moreover, the topography of the coun-
try was found to be so that railroad
could be built through it without any
particular difficulty. The Northern at
present connects Sierra Mojada with
Escalon on the Mexican Central in the
southernmost part of the state of Chi
huahua over 100 miles distant, and it Is
a long haul Of about $50 miles via Es-
Gallon to Eel Paso. The mileage via the
proposed route might be 100 miles less,
but that would not cut so much Of a fig
ure as the fact that the smelling COM
pany which controls the Northern, will
be hauling over it's own line clear to the
river and the Southern Pacific will
make special inducements to secure all
OF this promising traffic away from the
Mexican Central. So with the extern
sion of the Mexican Northern to Car
men and BoquillaS, there promises to
be opened up a large mining district of
be made more apparent when, with the
road built through the country. pros
pectors flock there.
Now here it is where the Pecos VAL
to recent interview at Fort Worth
with President Hagerman of the VAL
ley road his company is to extend its
road from Pecos City Junction on the
Texas & Pacific road, southwest to Bo-
quillas just so soon as the northern end
of the road has been extended to ANA
rillo to connect with the Santa Fe at
that point. This will give the Pecos
Valley the haul to Marathon of the
coming immense output of the mines in
the far eastern part of the state of
Chihuahua, the Southern Pacific haul
ing west of there to Ell Paso. At the
same time this will give the Santa Fe
another connection with the City of
Mexico if the management wishes to
make such an arrangement, and send
trains from Kansas City to Newton.
Amarillo, Roswell, Pecos City and
south to connect with the Mexican Cen
trail at Escalon, 416 miles south of E)
Paso, and that much nearer the City of
Mexico. There are those who prophecy