Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1902-02-22
The ROCK ISLAND.
II Will Extend From Dawson, N. m.
to Trinidad, Colorado.
THROUGH c.. FIELDS.

a Trinidad, Colo. writer under date
oi February -. says that since the an.
pearance of recent article regarding
the Rock Island. developments have
warranted the belief that the proposed
point of Rock Island and Rio Grande
connection would be Trinidad itself
The Rock Island Dawson coal road
To be- constructed this year will start
from the Rock Island Dawson coal
fields in the northern portion of Collax
county, \. NJ. and. intersccting the
Santa fc between Maxwell City and
Springer. joins the main Rock Island
III Paso line at Tucumcari. ~ NJ. 1870
miles southwest
The building. therefore. of the con
Meeting link sixty miles between the
Dawson coal fields and Trinidad would
give the traffic united Rock Island and
Rio Grandc Denver Southwest short
haul whose commercial importance
alike To the roads themselves. Denver
and the interview Mexican. Arizona
and Pacific coast trade, can scarcely
be ovcrestimatcG.
The new Rock Island III Paso route
IL To be extended from III Paso To VA.
ma. the head of the Gulf of California.
and the mouth of the Colorado river.
and To San Diego. on the Pacific south
ern California coast. the connection
from ri Paso to Bisbee. Ariz (via
nemiug. y. Nj. to be made by the
traffic requirement mayhap. out
right purchasc--of the Phelps Dodge
copper roads
This III Paso-Rock Island southwes-
tern extension is To also include the
Phelps. Dodge Mexican railroads with
IN ultimate raa.h{uty .f "a M.Nfgap Do
cifc port. a Rock Island line of ocean
steamers to ply between its Pacific
ocean tcrmini and the Philippines.
Strong coal connections also open to
this grant system will he found at
Deming. y. NJ. with both the Santa Fe
and the Southern PacIuc. while n
branch of the system will. ii is said. be
built from the Nogales vicinity to
Phoenix, AriZ.
As additional adjuncts TO this new
southwestern railroad radius are the
early Rock island functions at TuCum.
carl. y. NJ. with the ChoCtaw a Gulf
and the Texas Central. thus bringing
the great Southern cotton belt into
new direct and daily touch with the
gold and the grain. the coal and the
copper the sugar and the oil. the beef.
mutton and wool. the lumber. building
stone and brick and potter clays. and
the famous health. hunting fishing and
scenic resorts OF the great Rocky
moutain region and its tributary
prairies.
The Rock Island extension OF sixty
miles from Dawson 90 Trinidad will
pass through a rich region of coal.
mineral and agricultural lands, the line
of railroad meeting only minor engi-
urcring difficulties in railroad survey
and construction.
The extension will bring that road
TO within thirty miles of its extensive
cokirg coal fields AT Aguilar and on
able the construction of a Trinidad
/ Agular Rock Island branch for the full
/ development of these great furnace
| fue! fields
/ The few miles of railroad therefore
| to be laid between Dawson. = NJ. and
/ Trinidad. Colo. for "A trafiic uuiiication
of the Rock island and the nlo Grande
will give Trinidad new and multiplied
| traffic scope and importance and create
/ 4 new southwestern commercial EN-.
/ pire, with Denver as the northwestern
/ crown and clearing house.