Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-08
THE SANTA FE CUT OFF.
What a Topeka Paper Says on the I'M
portant SUBJECT.

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portant Subject.
The Topeka State Journal, putting
this and that together and taking news
obtained from headquarters at Chi
cago, Topeka and from the southwest.
through the columns of The Citizen,
says:
B. Lantry & Sons, of Strong City,
Kan, have secured the big end of the
Santa Fe cut off contract.
The Lantry contract is for the con-
struction of the west sixty miles of
the new 300-mile extension. This in
cludes all the difficult construction on
the entire line, where the road passes
through Abo canyon.
1t is also announced on good author
years has been the Santa Fe resident
engineer at Las Vegas, N. NJ, has re-
signed his position with the Santa Fe
and will become superintendent of con-
%.struction on the Lantry contract.
The Lantry contract includes grad
ing, bridging, masonry and track lay
ing-in fact everything connected with
the building of the Dad except the fur
nishing and erecting of steel girder
bridges.
It is'reported from albuquerque that
the Santa engineers have made a sur
vey for the bridge across the Rio
Grande at Belen. This would indicate
that the Santa Fe company is planning
to build the bridge itself, without sub
hitting it TO contractors. This view is
strengthened by the statement that the
Lantrys will not be required to do any
of the steel bridge work on their con-
tract. 1t looks as though the Santa Fe
feels itself competent to build it's own
bridges.
The portion of the new line which
the Lantrys will build begins at Belen,
twenty miles south of Albuquerque, on
the Rio Grande, and extends through
the mountainous country east of the
Rio Grande by way of Abo canyon to a
little town called Willard, where the
Santa Fe crosses the Santa Fe Central.
The Santa Fe Central is a new line
having no connection whatever with
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe.
1t has not yet been announced by the
Santa Fe who will build the remainder
of the important New Mexico cut of.
Their is besides the Lantry contract a
line to be built from Belen across the
Rio Grande to Rio Puerco, and another
short line from La Joya to Rio Puerco.
Rio Puerco is a station thirty miles
west of Albuquerque, and La Joya is
ten miles south of Belen on the Ell
Paso line. There is another line pro-
posed connecting La Joya with the
main line of the cut off just before it
enters the mountains east of the Rio
Grande.
These various short lines will enable
the Santa Fe to run it's rains to and
from FL Paso, both east and west
bound, without doubling back on their
tracks.
From Willard eastward the construc-
ton is over the New Mexico prairie.
and aside from lodging the minor hills
and canyons there is no difficult con-
struction to be encountered.
In Abo canyon there is said to be one
rock cut which will require several
years hard work to make. There is
some rumor of a tunnel being built at
this point. AS has been reported. the
contracts provide that work must be
carried on day and night, electric light
being furnished for night work in the
canyon.
Lantry brothers are very successful
in landing Santa Fe contracts. They
are just finishing up a million dollar
job for the Santa Fe at China basin,
a Francisco.