Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1899-10-26
RAILWAY EXTENSION.
How the Denver & Rio Grapde Road
May Extend It's Line Further South.
SEX EXCLUSIVE TERRITORY.

A Denver Il BIO Grande official was
approached 10 Denver last week and
asked whether the Denver h BIO Grsnde
Railway company intends to build south.
ward next year from Santa Ne. The
director was handed a map with q sug
gested extension outlined upon II. TO
start from Santa Fe. 20 TO Albuquerque
and from there down the Rio Grsnde
valley to Nj Paso. The official said moth.
ing OF this route. but drew another map.
U sing the santa fe terminus as a start
log point, q line was drawn direct to
White Usks. leaving Albuquerque forty
miles TO the west. aud from White Oaks
south along the nj OF the HI Psso h
Northeastern road into III Psso. when
ths extension to HI Psso Is made" he
then said, (which will come sooner or
later, this, | think, will be the route
chosen" That will enable us to tap the
great mineral district at White Oaks and
the coal fields and rich mining country
to the south, IA well as reaching the
portals OF Mexico and nj Psso. II con-
soiidstiOn IL effected at White Oaks with
the III Paso u Northeastern that will
leave Us only q comparatively short
stretch Of track to build. "If AlbuQusr
que Is reached" he continued, II think
1t will be- by u branch line only, running
from u point between Santa Fe and
Waite Oaks
The official also said that In snticipa-
ton Of the extension Of the branch from
Alsmosa 10 Santa fe will be made stan
dsrd gusge within a year or two.
When asked whether the Denver Il Rio
Grande will build q branch from Santa
Fe to the Cochiti, the official said: "No,
any business we bring to Santa Fe we
must divide with the Santa Fe rail
road"
"If we build a road into the Cochiti
dislric. 1t will be down the Rio Grande
from White Rock canyon, but I believe
the Santa Fe railroad will be ahead Of
US, with a line from Thornton"
The official also spoke about the pro-
posed Santa Fe railroad branch line
from Las Vegas TO Taos. He said:
"rhat line will never be built further
than Mora. Taos lies on the other
side Of the range. and there Is a standing
agreement between the Denver n Bio
6rsnde railroad and the Santa Ne rail.
road that neither will cross the range In
that part Of the territory. A branch line
from Tres Piedras to Taos Is, however, a
remote possibility.
AT present the San Luis valley, In
southern Colorado. through which the
Rio Grsnde railway passes, Is shipping
many car loads OF -four to southern
New Mexico and III Psso, and Denver is
making strenuous Efforts to secure the
wholesale business with the southwest
and Mexico that now goes to Kansas
City and eastern points. 30 considerable
pressure Is being brought to bear on the
Rio Grande company to build the extern
sion to White Oaks and III Paso.
This will give Colorado the advantage
Of two railways to the southwest. The
Rio Grsnde Railway company realizes
that II 1t ever expects to make Its pres.
ent division to Santa Fe a paying ven-
ture. 1t must go farther. and there is
very little doubt that the extension will
be made. and that at a no distant day"
President Purdy, Of the Rock Island
railway, In an interview denied the
rumcr that his company intended to
reach into Mexico or to cross to the
Pacific through New Mexico.
III we can attend to the business Of
the growing region through which our
lines low pass" he said. I'VE will be
doing we'll enough for a number OF years
to come"