Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-07-26
SURVEY COMPLETED.
Extension of the Psoos Valley Railroad
Other Railroad Notes.

Official authority says that the per-
manent survey of the new Pecos sys-
tenn branch from Ell Paso to Hagerman
Is about completed, and that actual
construction work will begin in proo-
ably sixty days. President Hagerman
and General Manager Nichols, of the
Pecos system, are now in New York In
the building interests Of this new line.
The Pecos- Hagerman branch will ex-
tend northeast and southwest, and will
be about 180 miles in length. This line
will give a Kansas City and Chicago
route from Ell Paso 225 miles shorter
than any now known, and will also, as
far as the Pecos system Is concerned,
do away with the 213 miles Of connec-
ton over the Texas Pacific now used
between Pecos City and Ell Paso. 1t will
also give short Pecos connection at
Amarillo with the Choctaw, Oklahoma
and Gulf, over the now pending Wealth
erford branch of the latter road. and
will also again afford the Pecos system
A Rock Island connection through the
junction at Ell Reno of the Rock Island
and the Choctaw roads.
The roadbed Of the entire Pecos sys-
tenn IS now being heavily ballasted with
gravel, in which connection forty cars
of gravel are being daily loaded at the
new gravel pit near Hereford.
INTO SAN LUIS VALLEY.
The Colorado and Southern road is
said to have now a surveying force en-
gagged in preliminary work for its new
line from Trinidad to the San Luis val
ley, via Stonewall. The commercial GER
taInties of this new road increase the
more they are considered. Up the Pur-
gatoire river for forty miles through
successive grain fields and garden
areas; traversing the as yet practically
Untouched coking coal deposit lying be-
ween Trinidad and the Sangre Christie
nountains-a deposit fifty miles long
>y forty miles in width; utilizing the
magnificent timber growth of the Ponil
region; developing-for low as we'll as
high grade ores-a vast and rich miner
1l area, and giving a renewed stimulus
to the wheat growth and output of the
great San Luis valley-these new rails
Of the Colorado and Southern will con-
stitute one of that systems busiest
| branches.
Sixteen miles above Trinidad, on the
river, the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com.
pany purchased this spring an immense
tract of coking coal land. This tract Is
in the very heart of the coking region
and will be on the direct route Of thu
new railroad. and here, 1t Is said, thu
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company will
open up one Of the largest coking Goa
camps yet known to the west.
1t is stated, also. that the Colorado
and Southern contemplates making Of
stonewall-forty miles up the river
from Trinidad-one Of the most COM
pletely equipped scenic and health re.
sorts on the continent.
| CAPTAIN COAL OUTPUT.
The contract between the Texas-Pa.
cific and the White Oaks roads, under
which the latter was furnishing the for
mer about twenty cars OF coal per day
has expired, and the coal traffic on thu
White Oaks has greatly decreased.
The Texas-Paciflc road has developed
the coal mines on its line near Eagle
Pass, and Is now supplying the western
division with coal from there. However
the coal is of inferior quality, and {
much larger amount Is required, but al
the mines are on the lines Of the com
pany, they accept the coal to get tn
first haul.
This will make quite difference ii
the income Of the White Oaks. but l
is said that arrangements have alread!
been made to take effect soon with 9th
er roads, whereby the White Oaks cal
dispose Of all its output.
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