Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-10-05
HISTORY PTHE ROAD
George s. Good Reviews the Work
of Construction Of the Ell Paso
& Northeastern.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Decidedly Impressed with Oloudcroft-
The Most Difficult Railway En-
cheering in the Whole
Country.

Hon. George s. Good, of the contract
ing firm of Good & Co., which firm is
responsible for the mechanical work of
constructing the Ell Paso & Northeast
ern railway, in an interview CLEANED by
a News reporter reviews the work Of
building the road in the following Ian
guage:
1.-THE work of building the Ell Paso &
Northeastern railway vas started in Ell
Paso two years ago next November, and
has just been completed to the Salado.
The large five-deck bridge, which, by
the way, is a wonder, being over 200
feet long, IS feet high and containing
over lao, 900 feet of timber, vas crossed
Monday, and the last difficult piece Of
engineering before entering the Salado
country completed. The main line of
the road is 1853 miles in length. While
progressing with the work IN the main
line, the A~lamogordo & Sacramento
Mountain railway and the Jarilla
branch We're completed. Our plant will
! now be moved to the Sacramento noun
tains and the work Of extending the
mountain road through the timber belt
will be pushed.
while carrying on this work for the
New Mexico Railway and Coal Com
pany, our firm completed forty-fve
miles of railway in Missouri, and also
built considerable of a stretch of road
for the Vanderbilt interests in Pennsyl-
vania.
THE extension of the mountain road
Cor Alamogordo & Sacramento Noun
tain railway will certainly open a very
rich timber and agricultural country,
and the road as it now stands is one of
the most difficult ever constructed in
the United States, and one of great sur
prise to tourists. The engineering feats
accomplished are worth a trip across
the continent to see. One trip will sat
isfy the most exacting that its equal
cannot be found in the United States
or elsewhere.
"The Jarilla branch has opened one OF
the richest mineral countries in the
world-one equal to Cripple Creek, in
Colorado-and the main line has GER
tainly tapped as rich a virgin mineral
section'a as one could wish to find. The
Ell Paso & Northeastern will be ship
ping coal into Ell Paso within a week"
While referring to the mineral our
try opened, Mr.. Good showed the re-
porter some splendid samples of free
gold and copper ore. One of the richest
was taken from the old Hughes claim
in the San Andres. In reference to the
probability of a road to the San Andres
at some future date he said:
There is no question in the minds of
the people who have the matter in
charge that if the development war;
rants it a road will soon be built to the
San Andres.
About Cloudcroft?" he continued.
YES, I am decidedly impressed with it,
1t will be a grand place for the residents
of the low, fiat southwest to summer in.
There is no place like it in the south
west, and it is bound to be profitable
and a we'll %patronized summer resort.
DO you know, 1 believe that the An
CORA goat business is one of the best
money making business enterprises in
the country? I aw a handsome herd Of
about 1000 near our camp the other day.
The man who OWNS them stated that he
sold the wool in Boston for IS cents and
the buyers furnished him with the in
formation that they did not know be-
fore that the west produced such WOOL"
-Alamogordo News.