Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-03-17
GALVESTON TO COAST.
Santa fe Has direct Route on Its
Own Rails.
ENGINEERS AT WORK.

The Santa Fe is soon to have a d.
rect route over its own rails from Gal
weston on the Gulf to Mexico on the
Pacific, says the Eel Paso Times.
Did you ever look at a map of the
Santa Fe system and notice that to go
from Galveston to San Francisco over
Santa Fe rails one would be obliged
to go as far northward as Newton,
Kan, before turning his face toward
his destination? Such is the case now,
but 1t will not be so many months from
now.
Had you ever noticed how easy 1t
would be Tor the Santa Fe to connect
up its lines in the southwest in such
a way as to give It its own lines direct
between these points? 1t would be
easy and the Santa Fe company knows
it. Furthermore, it is going to make
those very connections.
From Roswell to Puerco.
The first connecting link to be built
will extend from Roswell. N. NJ, to
Puerco station on the Santa Fe Pa
cific. This line will cross the Rock
Island at Torrance. tine point where
the Santa Fe Central joins the Rock
Island. 1t will cross the Ell Paso
branch of the Santa Fe at Belen, only
a short distance below Albuquerque.
and then will not have to go much
further to reach the Santa Fe Pacific
at Puerco.
Surveyors are now at work laying
out the above described line and that
is the way it is now planned. Albu-
querque may, however. get after the
company and offer them sufficient in
ducements to get them to connect with
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stead of a short distance further west
ward.
This line will connect the recently
acquired Pecos Valley system of the
Santa Fe with the lines and considera-
bly, lessen for the Santa Fe the dis
tance and time from Chicago and Kan
sas City to San Francisco. something
which the Santa Fe is now very anx-
ious to do since the Rock Island has
done some shortening of distance and
time through this section. This con-
Meeting link alone would be of great
value to the Santa Fe company, but
that is not the only one 1t is going to
build and with second one still great
er advantages will begained.
From Pecos to San Angelo.
The second connecting link will be
between Pecos City, Texas, and San
Angelo, same state. Get map of the
Santa Fe system. Draw a straight line
from Roswell to Puerco. as first de-
scribed, then draw another from Pecos
to San Angelo. You can then readily
see what these two short lines will do
for the Santa Fe system. The first
will give it a line between the east
and west which will avoid the mount.
aims of southern Colorado and north
ern New Mexico, and IL the company
ever secures a line into st. Louis IL
will then have a line over which as
good time from the central states to
the coast can be made as over any
other road or roads now in existence
The second connecting link described
will, after the first is built, give it a
short route over its own nnes between
the Gulf coast and the Pacific coast.
May Deprive FL Paso.
FL Paso has been counting on an ex-
tension of the Pecos Valley line from
Roswell and this new plan of the com
pany will probably deprive this city of
that line, but 1t will be more practical
and valuable investment to the com
pany to make the connections above
described than to come to Ell Paso.
The above is no pipe dream nor a
mere possibility. Surveyors are now
in the field laying out the line from
Roswell to Puerco and minor official
of the company now in the city on bust
ness says that he knows that it is the
company's intention to construct the
line between Pecos and San Angelo.
Good for Roswell.
1t will be great for Roswell, as that
place will now soon be on a trunk line
connecting the east and west and an
other connecting south and west. The
little city of Pecos. which has beer
slowly dying for the past two years
will probably be revived by beine
placed on this connection between the
ocean and gulf. be re-incorporated ant
again hope TO be something in the
future.
Most every one expected the Santa
Fe TO do something on account OF the
Rock Island having made shorter
time through this section, but it's 9
safe wager that very few persons hat
thought that this would be what they
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