The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-18
THE ROAD HAS
BEEN APPROVED
DIRECTORS OF WHITE OAKS IN
sPEcT THE LINE.
New Summer Resort Hotel to Be
Erected at Cloudcroft-Coal Output
to Be ncreased-Probable Impor-
tant Connections to Be Made.

bearing the party of directors and
stockholders of the road on a trip of
inspection returned to El Paso last
evening at 5.15 This Is practically
the first opportunity any of the eastern
owners of the road have had to inspect
its workings since actual construction
was begun, and the impressions they
have received are awaited with in
terest by El Pasoans.
In the party is Col. II. NJ. -Boies, of
Scranton. Pa. q director in the New
Mexico Railway and Coal company,
the concern which owns the various
railroad and construction companies in
the White oaks system. Col Boies is
president of the Moosic Powder COM
pany, formerly president of the Dick
son Manufacturing company, and
president of the Boies Steel Wheel
company. He is one of those most
extensively interested in the road went
over the proposed line In mule
wagon and his account therefore, Of
the trip over the completed road, is
most entertaining.
I'VE left Scranton" said Col Boies,
'on Monday, Oct. 2, and were met at
st. Louis by this delightful car which
President Eddy had kindly placed at
our disposal, in charge of Mr.. Evans,
his private secretary. We arrived in
El Paso last Friday, and Immediately
went out over the road. The road
seems to have been built in a first
class manner, and our progress was
agreeably swift and smooth, COM
pared with the roughly jolting four
mule wagon of a year and a half ago
SURPRISED AT ALAMOGORDO.
THE town of Alamogordo impressed
us all with amazement, for it Is a won-
derful thing to see such development
and settlement, and so many indus
trious beginning, on what had been a
perfectly barren plain when we saw 1t
before. We visited here the two saw
mills capable of cutting $4,000 feet of
lumber each shift, or 100000 running
double turn.
1--WE were particularly surprised to
observe the growth Of cottonwoods in
the park, extending for mile along
the railroad. These trees have grown
up within a years time, nourished by
water from Fresnal canon, which is
used to irrigate the whole town and
NlIlllllS' lHuteNt "llu lHe dlu OF InlS
water system, proper irrigation bids
fair, within two or three years, to
make the desert a garden spot for
miles around.
1--WE saw, OF course, the water works
of the town of Alamogordo in the
canon. 1t is some five or six miles to
the intake whence water is brought
down for domestic and public use in a
l0-inch pipe. After surmounting great
obstacles in its passage down the ca
non this pipe discharges into a reser-
voir having a capacity of 100000 gall
Ions, and, which, at an elevation of 23i
feet above the town proper, gives
abundant head for fire use, sufficient
to flood any large building so far pro-
jected. This is excellent water for
| drinking and domestic use.
THE NEW BUILDINGS.
1.-THE railroad is building it's machine
shops and round house here and these
will bring many mechanics and en-
plOyes to make the town a thriving
and growing one, especially when
farm lands in the vicinity have been
placed under water HomeSteaders
even now are taking up lands in the
neighborhood.
-Four churches have been organized
and are building houses of worship;
the Alamogordo National bank, with a
capital of $4,000, is putting up a mar
bic front building; and Mr. Pierce has
built a large general store, 50x100 .et.
II is estimated there are already IN
Alamogordo 1900 people-just one
years growth.
"On Saturday we went to the Capt
tan coal mines, the anticipated output
of which was the first and main object
of the construction of the road. These
mines are what were known when we
were first here as the 'Salado coal
field We have changed the name of
the district to that of Captain, from
| the mountain on the east. This change
was rendered necessary by the fact
that there is another postofiice of the
same name in New Mexico.
THE COAL MINES.
THE coal mines are being opened
| at three different points, from one OF
which three 3O-ton cars were loaded
| the day we were there. The necessary
machinery and loading tipples have
| been constructed with capacity of at
| least 1000 tons per day at the first
| opening, which is near Gray's ranch
| There a station and town will be built
"The road is graded to the second
| opening, and it will be possible soon to
| move coal from there to the tipple at
| No l. We expect to have there an
output of 1000 tons a day by the first
| day of January, 1900. There is only a
| 10 per cent. slope, and with a rise SO
| gentle, the coal can be easily hauled
| out.
"In quality the coal is a superior
| bituminous article. 1t Is an excellent
| steaming coal and we intend the pro.
| duct to be as great as the market will
| stand. Our object is,of course, to have
| as great a product and to do as large
| business over the road as we can
| The larger the tonnage, the more we
make.
Ell PASO BENEFITED.
THE public can be assured that they
will get this coal as cheaply as it can
with profit to us, be delivered to them
| FL Paso will be largely benefited by
| the greatly increased coal traffic cen
| tering here. We expect to sell east
| and southwest, and even west as far
as San Diego, supplying steamers OF
the Pacific Steamship Company
lines. The fact that El Paso is the
main point of delivery for business
over the road makes it profit accord
| ingly. We can furnish coal as cheaply
here as anywhere, and / believe Fl
Paso will hold the same relation to the
| Salado coal fields-through the FL Pasc
and Northeastern-that New York city
holds to the anthracite coal fields, by
| reasnn of the six or eight connecting