Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1902-02-22
ROSWELL EXTENSION.
General Manager Nudge Does Not
Think Line Will be Built Now.
IT HAS GREAT POSSIBILITIES.


not think II likely that the santa Fc
Is planning TO build the $50 miles OF
line between Roswell. y. NJ. and III
PasO. says the Topeka state journal
y do not believe says Mr. Nudge
that Avery Turner made the state.
mCnt attributed to him concerning the
probable extension of the Pccus Valley
line. 1t looks % me like the work OF
some imig .native newspaper CORE
spondcnt
Probably some time the extension
Will be built but | do not believe that
anything Is to be done just now. sur.
yoys OF the territory between Roswell
aud III Paso were made by the Ppcos
Valley people before the Santa Fc
bought the line and II was the original
intention that the road should be- cN-
tended through 10 III Paso. These sur.
vcys. of course came into the posses
sion of the Santa Fe and the POSSIBLE
tty of extending the line has not been
lost sight OF
u do not believe that for the present
the amount of business at III Paso jus.
titles the construction of another line
there though. of course. the way is
open whenever II seems advisab' @ to
build"
I Ut NAtlfUUtul iNltfl nlnE lut llla
pose, extension as reported Friday In
a dispatch from FL Paso. was as fol.
lows:
THE vice president aud general man.
agcr of the PcCos Valley railroad has
somioiilcially announced that the san
Ia Fe owner OF the PeCos Valley road.
will construct line from Roswell. y.
NJ. 10 III Paso 100 miles. to compete
with the newly completed Rock Island
route. which made a cut of 222 miles
over all lines now touching here"
Avery Turner is the general manager
OF the Pecos Valley. and IT is probable
that the dispatch refers to him as the
authority for the statement
The report OF the extension aroused
great interest In both Santa Fe and
Rock Island circles The Rock Island
is Interested because IL has Just com.
plcted its FL Pasu line and now has tue
shortest line from Kansas Ciey To ~
Paso by over POO mi cs II the Santa
Fe'should construct the El paso exten-
sion from Roswell It would beat the
Rock Island into I'll Paso by thirty-two
miles.
The total length OF the Rock Island
line from Kansas City to I'll paso Is
now 9i75 miles II the Santa Pc should
build its Roswell extension il would
cover the distance over the Emporia
cutoff and the Caldwell branch. in n
total of 9l55 miles. The proposed ex-
tension has great possibilities.
II must be rem 'mbered. however.
that the Pecos Valley line is not .ae
same sort of road that the main line
OF the Santa Fe Is. II has not been
worked as much. and is not in railroad
- ..at.Ifg,i..I e l..
able of sustaining so much travel, or
such heavy travel as is sent over the
Santa ZEE main line. II would involve
a large outlay for betterment OF the
Poc0a Valley line If the Santa Pc were
to send its El paso business via the
Pecos Valley and the proposed Roswell
extension
If nothing else, the humor of the de.
cision To build the extension serves to
menace the Rock Islands present
claims of supremacy in the handling OF
FL paso traffic from Chicago and the
east
Considerable confidence Is expressed
IN the truth Of the report that Santa Fc
officials have just completed the in
spection of the Rio Grande & Sierra
Nladre from lei Paso TO Nuova Casas
CRANES in Mexico and a deal il pend
ing for It's purchase.
Tho impression seems 10 be among
railroad authorities that the Rock Is
land VIII make the alliance with the
Mexican Central and this adds color to
the rumor that the Santa I'c is in the
field 10 buy the Casas Grandes line,
which If extended from its present ter
minus 10 Conception and thence over
the Sierra Madres to the harbor of To.
pOlobampO would give an equally ef
ticacious outlet to the Pacific coast ana
the Orient besides taking the Santa
Fee into the great corn belt of Mexico,
and into the coal fields and richly min
eralized country known TO be waiting
railroad or railroads, beyond the alerra
Madre mountains. There is prophecy
from thecast that the movement OF the
Casas Grandes road will take place
within the coming fortnight