Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-04-02
RAILROAD SITUATION.
Interesting Facts About Santa Fe
Central and albuquerque Eastern.
IMPORTANT ROADS.

IMPORTANT ROADS.
The Santa Fe Central railway and
the Albuquerque Eastern railway at
present under construction in New
Mexico. hold the key to the rail-
road situation in New Mexico.
says the New Mexican. The
Santa Fe Central, 116 miles long, is
being built from Santa Fe to Torrance.
Lincoln county. 1t will onnec the
Denver q Rio Grande system with the
Rock Island & Ell Paso railway. 1t
will form a junction with the Santa Fe
system at Santa Fe and will cross the
system at Kennedy near Galisteo. AT
SAINT Fe 1t will also connect with a
second proposed railway to Durango,
Colo, and also with a proposed line to
Fort Garland, Colo, by way of Questa.
Taos and Embudo. At Torrance it is
to form a junction with the proposed
Choctaw extension into New Mexico
and also with a line to Roswell in the
Pecos valley. All future transconti-
mental lines nat intend pushing to the
coast by way of central New Mexico,
will have to cross the Santa Fe Cen
trail.
The Albuquerque Eastern is to be a
branch 40 miles long from Moriarity in
SAINTS Fee county through Tijeras can
yon, to Albuquerque. At Albuquerque
a third junction will 6e formed with
the Santa Fe system. Isleta is the juno
ton point with the Santa Fe of the
Santa Fe & Pacific system. Thus It
will be seen that the Santa Fe Central
with it's branch will occupy a position
of unusual Importance among New
Mexico railways.
All the preliminary work for actual
construction on the Santa Fe Central
is completed. Ties have been distrib-
uted all along the route, a telegraph
line is being built, well drillers are
drilling for water, station buildings,
barracks for the construction forces,
stables for the horses and stoi ehouses
for supplies have been built and every
thing is in readiness to begin actual
grading. The contract for $4,000 tons
of rails, just sufficient to construct the
ZIG miles of the Santa Fe Central, has
been let and the first delivery of rails
is to be made in August while the road
is to be completed before the snow of
next winter uegins to fly. Bridge tim
bers are being delivered and soon all
streams and rroyos will be crossed by
substantial bridges. The engineering
work on the Santa Fe Central Is not
of an expensive nature anu one tan
gent of the line will be 80 miles long.
On the Albuquerque Eastern there will
be six miles of hard construction work
through Tijeras canyon, but outside of
that the branch will also be easy of
construction and of maintenance. A
branch is to be built even miles long
from Blanca, in Valencia county, to
the salt lakes, the largest of which has
been purchased by the railroad COM
pany and will be exploited for its salt.
Another branch will leave the main
line at Stanley to San Pedro, where
there are extensive copper mines and
the big copper shelter Of the Santa Fe
Gold & Copper company. From Vega
Blanca, south of Santa Fe, to Mortar
fly, a cutoff is to be constructed by
way of Galisteo, which will be SIS miles
long. An extension from Torrance to
Roswell in the lower Pecos valley is
also under consideration.
The Santa Fe Central Railway COM
pary will do its utmost to develop the
country which it will traverse. At
Santa Fe shops and ofice are to be
built as we'll as a fine union depot, the
latter in company with the Santa Fe
and the Denver & Rio Grande systems,
which have already given their con-
sent to the depot project. Extensive
coal lands ere being exploited by the
company between San Pedro n Gal
isteo while in the Manzano mountains
saw mills are to be erected to treat the
fine timber of that section. New towns
are being laid out and irrigation works
are under contemplation. The road
forming An important link between
great railway systems can from the
first day of it's completion command an
immense amount of local traffic for 1t
traverses a region which produces sew
eral million pounds of wool annually.
in which several hundred thousand
sheep and thousands of cattle Craze. A
country that is rich in gold. silver. cop
per. lead, ~turquois and other minerals;
q section that has extensive beds Of
the finest coal to he found in h west,
a domain having large tracts of tim
Der. a country that can produce thou
sands of IONS of salt annually n a
country rich in many other esources.
Like the Ell Paso & Rock Island rail
way. the Santa Fe Central will be con-
= structed with Pennsylvania capital. Its
president is Senator w. H.. Andrews, OF
Pittsburg; its vice president n man
ager is Hon. w. s. Hopewell; chief en-.
gineer, A. G. Kennedy; secretary. j. E
Saint; and treasurer, j. T. Mclaughlin.
The Pennsylvania Development com.
PAM has the contract for the building
of the road and It's branches. Senator
Arthur Kennedy, of Pittsburg, is its
president, One of the main hackers OF
the railway company is General Tor,
rance, one of the wealthiest and most