Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-07-08
RAILROAD SITUATION.
Roswe'l Trying to Get Senator An
drews Interested in an Extension.
ADVANTAGES OF Pecos VALLEY.

Several months ago me Register
published a number of articles on the
subject of an extension OF the Santa
Fe Central railway at Torrance. its
junction with the Rock Island road, to
Roswell. A few croakers there are
only a few of them and their ranks
are %dwindling) did not take any
stock in it," but the most of the cit.
liens of the town saw at once that
there was a chance to interest ex-Sen-
ator Andrews. president of the road,
and his associates, and a few quietly
began corresponding with him. Among
these were w. II. Godair. president of
the First National bank, and j. A. Mis-
bet, the attorney. The latter received
a letter a few days ago from President
Andrews. dated June 81, from his Of
fee in the Park building in Pittsburg,
acknowledging the receipt of a letter
Judge Nisbet had written him about
the people of Roswell wanting him to
extend the Santa Fe Central to Ros,
well, in which he said that he expected
to leave there for New Mexico about
the 10th of July, and after a. visit along
the line of the road, will go to Ell Paso,
and will let him know when he expects
W bG ~ III Il ooO dllu a bt SioN ~
meet him there. In closing. he says:
Possibly, | may visit your city and
look the situation over
On Wednesday of this week a tele-
gram was sent President Andrews
signed by G. A. Richardson, for the
Roswell club. as president. and for the
chamber of by j.. A. Ora
ham. as p~resluent, asking him TO visit
Roswell as the guest of those two or
CARNATIONS. This is the only way in
which President Andrews, or anyone
else, can form any idea of Roswells
growth. prosperity and esources.
Correspondence is also being carried
on with officials of the Dallas & New
Mexico Railway company. at Dallas,
and considerable interest is being TAX
en- in that quarter, in Roswell as an
objective point.
When a mild interest only is being
taken in a movement of any kind there
is not much chance for it to take defin-
lite form, or to gather sufficient impet.
us to amount to much, but h interest
now being taken by the business men
of the town in trying to ecu add.
tional railway facilities by calling the
attention of railway managers to the
advantages and resources of the Pecos
valley, and the opportunity of building
and operating a railroad running
and west across the Pecos valley at
this point. shows that there may be,
and probably will be, something done,
and without much delay. The fact that
it is only about 100 miles from Tor
rance to Roswell and that the latter
is a town of over 5000 people, with a
rich farming and fruit growing sec
tion of country tributary to it, under
irrigation, consisting of large alfalfa
farms, stocked with the finest regis
tered Herefords and Shorthorns in the
southwest and hundreds of acres of
the best bearing apple orchards in the
world all supplemented by a fine range
country in every direction, which is
filling up rapidly with small stock
men, and that with that road built to
Roswell, its further extension to a con
nection with some road from Fort
Worth or Dallas. would make it a
line connecting Salt Lake City and
Denver with Galveston via Santa Fe,
the territorial capital. makes the prop
osition one that appeals strongly to the
commercial instinct of railway promot-
ers.
Every influence in the central por-
ton of the territory is enlisted in the
effort to secure railway connection
viii Roswell. w. r. Clements, of
this place, was at Torrance last week
and says everybody there is talking
about Roswell. and the certain pros
pect of the extension.
Recent press dispatches indicate that
the Santa Fe is gong to build a cut
off" from Portales, ninety miles north
east of Roswell, to Albuquerque, Gen
eral Manager Muuge being quoted 70
that effect. A number of tents and
other effects were unloaded there a
few days ago and something is going
to be done toward pushing the work on
the ''cut off " evidently. This leaves the
way clear for the Santa Fe Central eX.
tension to Roswell,-Roswell Regis
ter.