Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-12-18
SUCCESS
IS ASSURED
The Capital Light & Power
Company to Order
Material.
5000 HORSE POWER
WILL Be USED
Franchises Secured--The Capital
Ready-.F Forerunner Of Many
Industries --Santa Fe and
Las Vegas to be
Joined by Electricity for Mutual
and Beneficial Interests.
CONSTRUCTION WORK ON The PLANT
WILL COMMENCE WITHOUT DELAY

Professor J. G. Halapleus of Toledo,
Ohio, engineer of the Capital Power
and Light Company, who has been
spending the past nine weeks in Las
Vegas and this city on business conn2c-
ted with his company, expects to leave
| tomorrow for Toledo, where he Will
| commence active work towards carry
ing into effect the projects for which
his company was Incorporated. Profess
sor Halapleus has secured franchises
for the erection and operation of a
| power plant and for furnishing electric
| power and light in the town Of Las We
gas, in the city Of East Las Vegas and
| in this city for his company. He has
between $4,000 and 100000 worth of
| business in sight, in these towns, per
year, and upon this basis he is figuring
on utilizing the water power on the Pc
cos river, IA 1-2 miles east of this city,
owned by the company, estimated at
5000 and more horse power. Upon ar
rival at Toledo, he will Immediately
prepare his estimates and order all the
necessary machinery and material. The
money for the purchase of these is al
ready subscribed and assured by Tole-
do capitalists. The generating and
power plants and the wires to Santa Fe
and Las Vegas will cost, when COM
pleted, in the neighborhood of 100000.
Four wires will be run from the power
plant to Las Vegas, East Las Vegas
and this town; three OF them to carry
electricity for power and light purpos-
es and one for telephone uses. The
wires from the power plant to this city
will be IA 1-2 miles direct. There will
be guards and repair stations on every
three miles of the line, where watch
men and line repairers will perma-
nently reside. The line to this city is to
be finished first. 1t is the intention to
have all the lines completed and in
working order to this city and Las We
gas by the 1st of September, 1903. The
furnishing Of power for manufacturing
concerns will be speciality, and Pro-
fessor Halapleus has already in mind
Industrial concerns, which he will IN
duce to move to Santa Fe and to
which electric power will be furnished
at very reasonable rate as an induce
ment for location here. A number of
Industrial concerns are already nego-
tiating Among these is a woolen fac
tory with the proprietors of which
Professor Halapleus is now IN corre-
spondence. The machinery, wires ana
other material 1t is expected will be on
the ground within three months, un-
less the electric works where the ma
chinery is to be ordered cannot fill the
orders within that time. Everything
will be done, however, to hurry matters
so that active construction can COM
mence at any rate by the 1st Of May.
Not a dollar is asked from the towns
to be benefited or from any citizen
thereof and the stock and bonds will all
be sold in Toledo and other Ohio cities.
The objects and projects of the COM
pany, when carried out, will prove of
the greatest benefit to Santa Fe, ana
will be the beginning of a new era Of
advancement and prosperity. Within
three years there is no doubt but that
half dozen new manufacturing con-
Germs, such as woolen mills, glove fac
tories, shoe factories and the like, will
be located in this city, where the water
supply is ample and of the very best,
| where the climate Is superior to that of
any other place on the North American
| continent, and where labor and raw
| material are abundant and cheap,
pelts are right at hand in great abund-
ance and in the immediate vicinity.
skillful and experienced engineer, pos
sessed of great energy and force, COM
bined with business tact and knowledge
Of men. He has been very successful in
obtaining the necessary franchises and
| privileges from the counties of Santa
Fe and San Miguel and from the city
| authorities of Santa Fe and East Las
Vegas and he already has ample capt.
tai at his command for the carrying
out of what will prove an excellent and
profitable business. not only for the
stockholders of the Capital Power and
Light Company, but also for the towns
and counties named.
| 1t Is but just to give credit where it Is
due and hence 1t Is proper in this con-
nection to mention the fact that the
attention Of the Toledo capitalists and
Of Professor Halapleus, now engaged in
the work above detailed, was first CALL
ed to the great natural opportunities
that exist within few miles Of this
city in the vast water power of the
Pecos river and which could be at no
great expense, considering the magni-
tude Of the object, harnessed and
utilized for profitable and useful COM
! mercial, manufacturing industries and