Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-11-14
TO TIDE WATER.
Ship Building Plants. Can 0istate
Fares and Freights to
All Roads.
FACTS or GENERAL INTEREST.

Special Correspondence.
Washington. ID c.. Nov. 9.-Plans
are being made to establish at Nor.
folk. Va. or Newport News, one OF
the largest ship building plants in
the United states. with a capital Of
$4,000. 900 to start with. The news
has Just leaked out That Rockefeller.
Gould. senator stephen -. Elkins and
the Soaboard Air Line railroad,
! which road runs from Washington to
Florida. have Just purchased 1000
acres uf land for terminal and other
facilities AT Norfolk. Va.
Those two items OF news may be
skipped over by readers Of Albuquer-
que aud ether places Immediately
cast and west of that place as Of
very little interest or oncer To
then. yet. when the full significance
of the facts are more fully under
stood. II will be recognized as the
shortest. theapest-as the bird files
all year. south Of snow line, route
| from Atlantic tide water via Memphis,
| Albuuueruue to Pacific tide water at
San Francisco or Los Angeles, that
can he found across the continent.
| That this route. which may be com
pletcd before many people open their
| eyes To the fact. will represent from
$50. coo OOO to 500. O0O.O 600 less of
| moncy. stock. bonds or water. than
| Other northern roads, and. tha efore,
ftJm So. 0O0. 600 to $4,000, 600 less n
| year required to pay interest or div
blends. and being south of snow line
can be operated at from 81, 1000, 900 to
s.. 200 u year less than any north.
ern road. and. Therefore, with $4,000.
900 to SO. 900. 900 less required for
operating expenses, interest and div.
| idends, should he able to virtually
dictate fares and freights from tide
water tc tide water for the hundreds
of millions Of transcontinental trade
| and the hundreds of millions OF orr
| entail trade. The only chance for a
ruad to operate for a similar or less
xpens per annum would be for the
| Santa Fe road to use a couple of mil.
IS-aaJS1srrrSs-t5 c0mDIo1e The breaks in
It's roads OF the Gulf. ColO ado a San.
Ia Fe from San Angelo. Texas. to Pc
cos. Texas. and from Roswell, New
Mexico. to Albuquerque. New Mexico.
and of the Southern Pacific from the
Gulf of Mexico to San Francisco or
Los Angeles, California viii the
santa Fe company stand idly by and
| SEQ other roads cut II OF from mil
lions of dollars OF business or by com
| pIS,ing the two breaks In its line
above mentioned put itself In position
tO say To the railroad pool: I'VE
have u trunscontinental road from the
Great Lakes to the Pacific and a sec
| ond rnad from the Gulf of Mexico to
the Pacific, and demand $40, 900 900 a
wear more Of transcontinental bust
ness than has been given u.s."
United States Attorney Childers.
after a weeks hard work, has finished
MS w. icf in the Albuquerque Irriga-
ton and Land company vs.. T. c. Gu
| tierres ct al, for the plaintiff and ap.
pellec, and has II printed. He has
also been trying for the same time to
get the case advanced on the supreme
court Gocket so that he could argue
the case row. but 1t Is now said that
| the case will go over to about Christ
mas and possibly over to January
so Mr.. Childers will probably sta
home si.odt Monday or Tuesday OF
next GEEK.
Attorney Field. after passing some
DAYS In New York, has been here the
| past INO udlH NIsAhb III 'ho' w
tic defendants and appellants to ad
vance the foregoing case. but without
avail. Mr.. Field. also, while here
has been hobnobbing with some
prominent politicians, not the least OF
whom was II. II. Hanna. the head
and push OF the gold democrats OF
Indiana. Mr.. Field a quite deticent
while here, and took the early even
ing train for Albuquerque.
The Roosevelt Rough Riders and
| New Mexico have a warm friend guild
ing the ship OF state at the White
house. and The Citizen representative
learns that one of New Mexico's
Rough RIDERS may soon receive an
easy and lucrative position in the
Philippines. For udental reasons
I Is the desire to keep mum for a
little while longer.
The Las Vegas grant case, which
was argued and submitted this week
nay he decided before or soon after
the holidays.
The Elephant Butte dam case vii
be argued about the middle of next
week.
Dame rumor says that Childers
saved certain friends about $4,000
wolfe in Washington, and 1t was no