Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-04-20
SUSPENSION OF
DECREE IS ASKED
If Dividends Can Be Paid to the
Northern Securities Company,
Over S4, 100000 Will Be at
Once Released.
ATTORNEY GENERAL KNOX WILL NOT CONSENT

? their request that the recent deere
against the Northern Securities com
pany be so far suspended as to permi
=. the payment by the railroads, OF VI
regular May dividends to the secHritie
Company. They maintain that tn
money would ultimately reach the sam
individuals, whether paid to them direc
or through the medium of the Northern
Securities company. On all other point
of the decree no modification was asked
A little over 81 900, 900 will be released
for the May dividends if the petition /!
granted and nearly $l4, 900, 900 would bt
paid out before decision can be secured
from the Supreme Court of the United
States Further Instructions from At
torney General Knox this morning were
to tho effect that he should continue tl
oppose the petition and not to agree tc
any suspension of the decree
The appeal has been perfected and
the bond will re filed at once. The pc.
tition was granted, Judge Sanborn an.
nouncing his decision at neon.
NO ACTION CONTEMPLATED.
Houston, Texas, April 20.-The at
torney general of Texas denies that any
action is contemplated by the state of
Texas against the Southern Pacific
company based upon the recent decision
in the Northern Securities case.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
mountains seem to come closer to the
town at night and remind the Santa Fe
visitor very much of the Santa Fe
range only the foothills are more mas
sive and more compact In the far dis
tance, toward the west, loom the peaks
along their foot shimmers an apparent
ly vast sea in the moonlight, The White
Sands. Alamogordo is no longer a
dream, no longer an experiment, but it
is dream realized and an experiment
| that has become permanent success.
TOWN OF TULAROSA.
Before reaching Alamogordo, but on
the same pleateau in coming from Tor
rance. the town of Tularosa is passed.
1t is half milI from the railroad
which maintains a station called Tula-
rosa. At this time of the year, Tularo-
sa presents an enhancing picture with
it's orchards a bloom and it's alfalfa
fields preparing for the first cutting.
Tularosa is amply watered by Tularosa
creek and the White Mountain Irriga-
tion Company has arranged the pre-
liminaries to build large reservoir
system. The soil is said to be the most
fertile in the southwest. 1t is better
than at Alamogordo, but even there, as
trainman told me today, things grow
as matter of course. He said that
few years ago he bought a dozen fruit
trees for his garden. He knew nothing
about fruit growing, but merely stuck
the trees in the ground. kept on water
ing them and of the twelve he planted,
eleven are now sturdy fruit trees and
he has kept on adding every year
since to his orchard. Alamogordo gar
dens seem to bear out the above ex-
perience for many of them are beauti-
full in trees, flowers and lawns, and all
are well kept.
CLOUDCROFT.
s One has not seen Alamogordo unless
Cloudcroft is visited. A person may
have ascended the Rigi to see the sun
rise over the Matterhorn; one may
have been on Mount Lowe to overlook
the lovely San Gabriel valley or may
have gone up to Pixies Peak to the re-
gion Of perpetual snow, or ascended the
Switchback at Maucf Chunk to gaze
upon as perfect scene as any in the
world, but Cloudcroft should not be
missed. In some ways it cannot begin
to compare with any of the sights mem
toned, but in other ways it surpasses
all of them. A 80 mile standard gauge
railroad ascending one mile in 30, to the
heart of the mountains, is a marvel in
itself and when the scenery along Its
route, the beauty Of its terminal and
the broad vistas it offers are consider
ed, it Is certainly worth to come 1000
miles or more to make trip to Cloud
croft. 1t is difficult to speak of the
Sacramento Mountain Railway and
Cloudcroft without exhausting superla-
tives. A man must be f1opelessly petri-
fed not to be aroused to enthusiasm
the first time he makes the trip. Ma
ture has guarded Cloudcroft we'll, for
mountain rises upon mountain like
bastions and battlements cut off by
moats over which drawbridges seem
out of question. But the Sacramento
Mountain Railway has conquered all of
these obstacles. There are switchbacks
and curves in the shape of double s,
many trestles high above gullies and
arroyos, some of the trestles being on
a steep grade and curving 120 and more
degrees. One will see two or three
lines of track, rising above each other
directly ahead and deem 1t impossible
to get up there, but the locomotive
painting and putting accomplishes the
feat. Not single fatal accident has
ever occurred on this line and each
train is supplied with every conceiva-
Bile safety appliance.
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