The Coconino sun., 1902-11-08
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way, yesterday filed incorporation
 papers in the office of Territorial Sec
 retary J. w. Reynolds for the Eastern
 Railway company of New Mexico. These articles indicate acoming change
 in the railroad situation in New Mexi- co which 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 Fe Pacific near Rio Puerco in Valencia county. It will then pass in an easterly direc- tiOn, crossing the Rio Grande, prob ably 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 & Northwestern 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 near LlanO station and the Santa Fe Central near Willard.
 In addition to the main line, two branch lines are contemplated, one fifty-fve miles long and the other sixty-five miles long, altogether in New Mexico. One of these branch will start Rio PuercO and will follow the PuercO river to La JOya, Soccorro 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 tOwnhsip 3 north, range east, in Valencia county, somewhere near Apo Pass. This branch or cut of will give a more direct line to Fl Paso from Chicago as we'll as from Los Angeles. 3
 The other cut-off will begin at Brazil Springs near Fort Sumner, Guadalupe county, and running eastwardly through Guadalupe and Chaves coun- ties, will form a junction near Portales with the PecOs Valley & Northeastern and them continuing to the eastern boundary into Texas, where it will probably form connecting link with a direct line to Forth Worth and Gal weston. The total mileage in New Mexico of the Eastern Railway of New Mexico and it's branches will be 385 miles.
 The capital stock is $9,625, 900 di- vided into 96, 25O shares, of which S3S5, 900 have been subscribed, $379,- 900 being subscribed by Edward P. Ripley, president of the Atchison, To- peks & Santa Fe railway. The di- rectOrs and incorporators are: Henry l.. Waldo, Ralph E. Mitchell, F. c. 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 Los Vegas, San Miguel county.
 The building of the Eastern Railway of New Mexico will revolutionize rail- road traffic in this territory. It will be noticed that the line on the east side of the Rio Grsnde via Abo, Fort Sumner and TexicO, is nearly as due east and west as it can be, considering 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 Mexico business of the road will be sent through southern Kansas via the new line and LaJoys, thence over the pres-