Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-02-21
RAILWAY MATTERS
Possible Combination Between the
Pecos Valley and st. Louis &
San Francisco,
The SANTA FE INTERESTS
Vice President Paul Morton Tells Of the
Affairs of the System That Covers
Much Of New Mexico and Goes
to California.

Inc St. LOUIS q Dali L IdliClSCo idil-
way is said to have begun an extension
of its Oklahoma line to Quanah, Tex,
on the Colorado & Southern railway. AS
d. B. Robinson, the old friend of New
Mexico is now the moving spirit of the
Frisco, 1t is evident that he desires to
get his road as far this way as possible.
Quanah is but 175 miles from Amarillo,
and the extension to the Colorado &
Southern line may mean that deal has
been made by which the st. Louis route
is to share the eastern traffic from Den
yer and Fort Worth and bring business
to the Denver route from the Missouri
city. Mr.. Robinson is also an old ally of
President Hagerman, of the Pecos Val
ley road. BY reaching the Colorado
route, which makes junction with the
Pecos Valley road at Amarillo, he may
be giving the Pecos line an independent
connection for st. Louis, and enable
President Hagerman to be less depend
ent upon the Santa Fe. Should the
Frisco secure trackage rights to Anna
rilla it is not impossible that there
would be combination between the
Robinson line and that Of Mr. Hager-
man, especially If the Pecos valley route
is going to Ell Paso. That is a possible
combination for railway men to think
about.
General Superindent Charles Dyer OF
the Colorado & Southern, returned last
night from Los Angeles, in company
with Mr.. Robinson of the Frisco route
whom he weat to California to consult,
the latter having been on the coast for
rest.
No railway man in the United States,
perhaps, knows more about the coun-
try and conditions along the lines of
railway with which he is connected
than Vice President Paul Morton, of
the Santa Fe. In late interview he
touched upon several topics Of interest
OF the Santa Fe and the Colorado g.
Southern he said:
1.-THE present mutual traffic relations
between the roads are experimental,
and 1t Is not at all certain that either
road will want to continue them. do
not think that they will be extended to
other parts Of the two systems. am
certain that the Santa Fe does not want
to absorb the Colorado & Southern and
am quite sure that the other road is
not at all anxious to be absorbed.
1--WE will have our own line through
to San Francisco next month. The i'm
mediate result of this will not be the
lowering Of the rates-we went in there
to make money, not to lower the rates.
But many Of the rates will eventually
come down. That is the natural tend
ency. think the coast people will find
some relief from being absolutely at the
mercy of one company"
Speaking of the transcontinental
question, Mr.. Morton said that his road
would never absorb the Midland again.
1--WE swallowed 1t once" he said, "and
disgorged it with some little nausea.
There Is not much in the talk of new
transcontinental routes. The acQuisi-
ton Of the Philippines is not greatly In
creasing our trade across the Pacific
Year before last our exports to Manila
were 5000, 900, and last year they were
| 100000, but the increase was mostly
made up of liquid traffic from Milwau-
kee and that country up there. Beer
follows the flag.
| IT see that Stilwell Is talking of build
| ing q road to the Pacific. He will FIND
it harder than he did to put the line
from Kansas City to the gulf. He built
that by trading his bonds to the stee
makers for the rails and structural tror
| for his track and bridges. They want
ed to keep their mills going, and had M
cash trade, so they took the bonds, ane
kept their mills at work. But now
when there is cash demand for ever,
scrap Of steel, he couldn't make th'
trade, unless he'd give ton of bond
for a ton Of metal.
1--WE found our country along our lin
in Arizona and New Mexico doing yer.
well, probably the greatest prosperit,
the people have ever enjoyed. There I
great deal of development going on Il
the Santa Rita country, in New Mexi
CO. We found a number Of Colorad
men down there. The Colorado Fue
and Iron Company Is operating som
iron mines. and the Hearst estate is de
veloping a great copper propositio,
which looks as though it was going
, be a very productive property.
1.-THE Santa Fe will continue its pol
l cy Of doing everything in its power
build up the prosperity of it's way sts