Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-10-30
With Branches 1856 Miles Long,
Starting at Rio Puerco on the
Atlantic & Pacific.
A STRAIGHT EAST
AND WEST Line
La Joya Cutoff for hl Paso and Mexico
Short Line for Eastern and Gulf Traffic
Capital S9,e25,ooo Ready
Incorporated Today.

Judge Fl. l.. Waldo, solicitor for the
way, today filed incorporation papers
in the office of Territorial Secretary j.
w. Reynolds for the Eastern Railway
Company of New Mexico. These arti-
cles indicate coming change in the
railroad situation of New Mexico which
will be sweeping in it's 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 point on the Santa e-Pacific
near Rio Puerco in Valencia county. 1t
will then pass in an easterly direction,
crossing the Rio Grande. probably near
Belen, and going through eastern Va
lencia and through Guadalupe counties
to the boundary of New Mexico and
Texas, forming a junction with the Pc
cos Valley and Northeastern railway
near Texico, just across the New Mex
leo 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 and Rock Island and Pa
cific railway near Llano station and
the Santa Fe Central near Willard.
In addition to the main line, two
branch lines are contemplated, one 55
miles long and the other 65 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 81
north, range 1 east to a connection
nth the main line Of tho Eastern rail-
way of New Mexico in township 81
north, range east in Valencia coun-
ty, somewhere near Abo Pass. This
branch or cutoff will give more d.
rect line to Ell Paso from Chicago as
well as from Los Angeles.
The other cutoff will begin at Brazil |
Springs near Fort Sumner, Guadalupe |
Guadalupe and Chaves coun-
ties, win form a junction near Por-
tales with the Pecos Valley and North
eastern and then continuing to the
eastern boundary into Texas, where it
will probably form a connecting link
with a direct line to Fort Worth and |
Galveston. The total mileage in New
Mexico of the Eastern Railway of New
Mexico and it's branches will be 1856
miles.
The capital stock is $9,625, 900, divided
into 96,250 shares, of which $3S5,O00
have been subscribed, $4,000 being
by Edward P. Ripley, presi-
dent of the Atchison, Topeka and San
ia Fe Railway. The directors and in
corporators are: Henry L. Waldo,
Ralph E. Twitchell, F. G. Fox, Charles
A. Spiess of Las Vegas; Edward P.
Ripley of Chicago; Victor Morawetz
and Edward J. Berwind 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-
road traffic in this territory and will
effect the fortunes of some of the
towns on the Rio Grande, more or less
favorably. 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 can be /,
the Typographical condi-
lions. That the transcontinental busi-
ness of the Santa Fe railway will go
through New Mexico mainly via this
new road is certain; 1t Is also sure that
The Mexico business of the road will be
sent through southern Kansas via the
new line and La Joya, thence over the
present Rio Grande division south. The
line planned from near Fort Sumner
east to connection with the Pecos
River division Of the Santa Fe railway
system, will certainly be used for the
Of transcontinental busi-
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 most i'm
portant railroad center 1t Is under
stood that the construction Of the main
line Of the Eastern Railway Of New
Mexico will commence Immediately and
That it's permanent location has been
upon. The La Joya and
Fort Sumner branches will not be con-
until the main line of the
Eastern Railway shall have been fin
lshed.
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,
section understood to be capable OF
great development and Of the latent
While some individual towns north OF
Belen may not be benefited by the new
venture, still the benefits that will ac-
crue to the entire territory from this
will be found very great and
most acceptable.