El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-11
THE ROAD
APPROVED
Directors of White Oaks
Inspect the Line.

inspect the Line
NEW SUMMER RESOR7
Hotel to be Erected at Cloudcroft-
Coal Output to be Increased
Probable Important Connection
to be Made.
The special train on the White Oak
bearing the party of directors ant
etockb olders OF the road on trip o
inspect. returned to Ell Paso las
evening at 5:l5. This is practically
the frat opportunity any of the eastern
owners of the road have had to ipspec
it's workings since actual construction
was begun, and the Impressions they
have received are awaited with in
terest by Ell PasoaEs.
In tie party is Col. 81. NJ. Boies, OF
Scranton, Pa, a director in the New
Mexico Coal Co., the concern which
owns the various railroad and con
strucsion companies in the White
Oaks system. Col. Boies is president
of the Moosic Pottery Co., formerly
president of the Iron Manufacturing
Co, and president of the Boies Steel
Wheel Co. He is one of those most
extensively interested in the road,
went over the proposed line in mule
wagon and his account, therefore, of
TIE trip over the com pleted road, is
most entertsinigg.
s'We left Scranton, said Col. Boies,
on Monday, Oct. 2, and were met at
St. Louis bv this deligh tfu' car which
President E Idly had kindly placed at
our disposal, in charge of Mr.. Evans,
his private secretary. We arrived in
Ell Paso last Friday, and Immediately
went out over the road. The road
seems to have been built in q first class
manner, and our progress was agree
able swift and smooth, compared with
the roughly jolting four mule wagon
of q year and half ago.
SURPRISED AT ALAMoGORDo.
s'The town of Alamogordo impressed
us all with amazement, for it is q won
derfui thing to see such development
and settlement, and SO many indus
trious beginning, on what had been
perfectly barren plain when we saw it
before. We visited here the two saw
mills capable of cutting $4,000 feet of
Timber each shift, or zoe, 900 feet rum
ming dou ole turn.
I'VE were particularly surprised to
observe the growth of cottonwoods in
the park, extending for mile along
the railroad. These trees have grown
up within years. time, nourished by
water rom Fresnal canon which is
nsed to irrigate the whole town and
vicinity. Indeed, with the aid of this
water system, proper irrigation bids
fair, within two or three years, to
make the desert garden spot for
miles around.
1--WE saw. of course the water work 9
Of the town of Alamogordo in the
c1n0o. 1t is some five or six miles to the
intake whence water is brought down
for domestic and public use in TO-
inch pipe. After surmOunting great
obstacles in it's passage down the canon
this pipe discharges into q reservoir
having capacity of 100000 gallons.
and which, at an elevated of 234 feet
above the town proper, gives abundant
head for e re use, sufficient to flood any
large building go far projected. This
is excellent water for drinking and
domestic use.
THE NEW BUILDINGS.
The railroad is building it's machine |
shops and round house here |
md these will bring many mechanics !
md employees to make the town q |
thriving and growing one, especially |
vhen farm lands in the vicinity have |
1een placed under water. Homestead
,rs even now are taking up lands in the
eighborhood.
-Four churches have been organized
nd are building houses of Worship;
he Alsmogordo National bank, with
apital of $50 900, is putting up a mar
lie front building: aud Mr.. Pierce has
uilt large general store, 50x10O feet.
t is estimated there are already in
Alamogordo 1,500 people,-just one
ears growth.
''On Saturday we went to the Capt.
an coal mines, the anticipated output
which was the first and main object
the construction of The road. These
lines are what were known when we I
ere first iaere as the 'Salado coal |
elf.' We have changed the name of
ie district to that of CAPTAIN, from
he mountain On the east. This change l
ss rendered necessary by the fact '
lat there is another postoffice of the t
'me name i'll New Mexico. 4
THE COAL MINES.
s'The coal mines are being opened
three different points, from one of
hich three Bottoms cars were loaded the
achinery and loading tipples have
,sn constructed with a capacity of at Il
ast 1000 tons per day at the first
'ening, which is near Gray's ranch.
here station end town will be built.
THE road is graded to the second
ening, and it will be possible soon to t.
,ve coal from there to the tipple at o
,. ]. We expect to have there an IL
tput Of 1000 tons day by the first L
Y of January. 1900. There is only n
per cent slope. and with a rise SO
ntle, the coal can be easily hauled t
&. d
In quality the coal is a superior e
luminous article. 1t is an excellent "
canning coal, and we iutend the pro- t
ct to be as great as the market will q
nd. Our object is of course to have 81
great q product and TO do as large q a
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