Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-10-08
CONTRACT AWARDED.
The Santa Fe Central Railroad is to Be
COMPLETED in One Year.


The Santa Fe Central Railroad COM
pany awarded the contract Of building
the proposed line of the company from
Santa Fe to Cameleon Springs in Lin
coin county, to the Pennsylvania De-
velopment company, the work to be
completed within one year. The liho
will be built via San Pedro and will be
1865 miles long.
There will be but one extensive
bridge on the line and that will be
over the Galisteo river at point
where an excellent rock bottom has
been found. Between San Pedro in
Santa F'e county and Progreso IN va
le nca county, there are several tang-
ents, one of them being 40 miles long.
The road for the most part will be
very easy of construction and thereaf-
ter in maintenance. 1t will run few
miles east of the great salt lakes in
Valencia county, which have been Sc
cured by the company The line runs
within a distance of from II to 20
miles of the extensive timber lands
and forests of the Manzano range, and
about the same distance from large
deposit of sulphur. Via the Santa Fe
Central, Ell Paso & Rick Island and
Ell Paso &, Northeastern the distance
from Santa Fe to Ell Paso will be as
follows: From Santa Fe to Chameleon
station 116 1-2 miles, from Chameleon
on the Ell Paso & Rock Island to Car
rizoza station on the Ell Paso &, North
eastern 65 miles, from Carrizoza sta
ton to Ell Paso via the Ell Paso &c
Northeastern 142 miles, a total of S2S
1-2 miles, as against 339 miles, via the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway
There are large coal deposits along
the line in Santa Fe county ahd
it passes through the rich mineral dis
trict of southern Santa Fe county, and
the prosperous stock country south OF
these mining districts. The road will
connect the great Chicago, Rock ISL
and & Pacific and the Denver & Rio
Grande systems.
The offices of the Santa Fe Centra
railroad in the Catron block will be oc
cupied by the officials OF the company
! IN a week or two. An additional office
with southern windows will probably be
secured for the engineering department
The actual work of building the railroad
is to commence in thirty or thirty-five
DAYS. The site of the terminal facill-
ties have not yet been determined upon
although connection with the Denver
& Rio Grande tracksis is to be made al
some point in this city. The opinion OF
the companys officials is that since they
have not asked Santa Fe for any bonus
or financial assistance, the city ought tc
give them ample terminal facilities at
some convenient point. AS the road Is
surveyed at present it will approach
Santa Fe from the southwest, will cross
the Santa Fe railroad tracks little
south of the penitentiary and will ther
parallel the Santa Fe railroad until il
strikes the Denver & Rio Grande track:
near the Santa Fe railroad depot. Thi
would locate the terminals OF the three
railroads very conveniently for unior
depot. The plans of the Santa Fe Cen
trail may be SO changed, however, tha
the railroad will make sweep arount
the city west of the Santa Fe tracks an(
strike the Denver & Rio Grande track
somewhere near the present Denver q
Rio Grande depot. ..5