Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-31
The new LINES
The Santa fe ContempIates Building
Branch Roads In New Mexico.
INCORPORATION PAPERS FILED

Judge Ii, J.. waldo, SOLICITOR lOr the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway,
yesterday filed incorporation papers
in the office of Territorial Secretary
j. w. Reynolds for the Eastern Rail-
way company of New Mexico. These
articles indicate a coming change in
the railroad situation of New Mexico
which will be sweeping in its nature
and will have far-reaching effects on
the future prosperity and growth of
the territory.
The main line of the Eastern Rail-
way company of New Mexico will be-
gin at a point on the Santa Fe Pacific
81 near Rio Puerco in Valencia county.
1t will then pass in an easterly direc-
ton, crossing the Rio Grande, proba-
bly, near Belen, and going through
eastern Valencia and through Guada-
lupe counties to the boundary of New
Mexico and Texas, forming a junction
with the Pecos Valley & Northeastern
railway near TeXico, just across the
New Mexico line. The length of this
main line will be 265 miles in New
Mexico and it will run through Abo
Pass, going thence to Fort Sumner,
will cross the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific railway neal Llano station and
the Santa Fe Central neal Willard.
In addition to the main line, two
branch lines are contemplated, n
ffty-five miles long and the other
sixty-fve miles long, altogether in
New Mexico. One of these branch
lines will start at Rio Puerco and will
follow the Puerco river to La Joya,
Socorro county, there crossing the Rio
Grande river, in township 2 north,
range l east. to a connection with the
main line of the Eastern Railway of
New Mexico in township 3 north,
range 4 east, in Valencia county,
somewhere near Abo Pass. This
branch or cutoff will give a more di-
rect line to FL Paso from Chicago as
well as from Los Angeles.
The other cutoff will begin at
Brazil Springs near Fort Sumner,
Guadalupe county, and running east
wardly through Guadalupe and Cha.
YES counties, will form a junction neal
Portales with the Pecos Valley &
Northeastern and then continuing to
the eastern boundary into Texas,
where it will probably form a connec
ting link with a direct line to Fort
Worth and Galveston. The total mile,
age in New Mexico of the Eastern
Railway of New Mexico and its
branches will be 1856 miles.
The capital stock is 1925, 900 di-
vided into 96,250 shares, of which
$3.50 0 have been subscribed, s379,.
900 being subscribed by Edward p,
Ripley, president of the Atchison,
Topeka q Santa Fe railway. The di.
rectors and incorporators are: Henry
L.. Waldo, Ralph E. Twitchell,, F. C.
Fox, Charles A. Spiess, of Las Vegas;
Edward p. Ripley, of Chicago; Victor
Morawetz and Edward J. BerYind, of
New York. The headquarters will be
at Las Vegas, San Miguel county.
The building of the Eastern Railway
of New Mexico will revolutioniZe rail,
o traffic in this territory. 1t will
be noticed that the line on the east
side of the Rio Grande via Abo, Fort
Sumner and Texico. is nearly as due
east and west as it can be, consider.
ing the typographical conditions. That
the transcontinental business of the
Santa Fe railway will go through New
, Mexico mainly via this new road is
certain; it is also sure that the Mexi
co business of the road will be sent
through southern Kansas via the new
line and LaJoya, thence over the pres.
ent Rio Grande division south. The
line planned from near Fort Sumner
east to a connection with the Pecos
river division of the Santa Fe railway
system, will certainly be used for the
transaction of transcontinental bust.
ness from Galveston to the Pacific
coast. Belen, in Valencia county, in
the neighborhood of which the new
railroad will cross the Rio Grande and
the Rio Grande division of the Santa
Fe. is destined to become q most i'm
portant railroad center. II is under
stood that the construction of the main
line of the Eastern Railway of New
Mexico will commence Immediately
and that its permanent location has
been determined upon. The La Joya
and Fort Sumner branches will not be
constructed until the main line of the
Eastern Railway shall have been
finished.
This new road will prove an import
ant factor in developing the portion of
New Mexico east of the Rio Grande in
Valencia and Guadalupe counties, a
section understood to be capable of
great development and of latent re-
sources.
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