The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-01-26
RAILROADS IN MEXICO
International and Central Are Flgur.
ing on Much Construction.
BOTH ARE FIGURING on MAzATLAN
The Situation Full Of Complexities and
Perplexities at Present--centrsl
May Not Go to Laredo.

Eagle Pass Texas JanuAry 24-Fro,, ,,,,-
rSngo come tldings OF great activity IN
.airoad engineeuug pointing TO early bulld.
lhs towards tho Pacific" II Is said Tbn
Mexican Observation-Disclosures tse rano -
the Coahuila and Durango peyelopment
company, bebiud which is the old pac,a,,
Improvement cumpany-has two partJcs
out and another Is being organized. All II
IS uhueretooh' taking or seeking alternative
routes from the city of Durango to AIazat-
ian. me Mexican International people are
spurred by the aggressive policy OF the
mexican Central which plainly aims at
tne control OF the railroad situation IN
Mexico. The. Central is now building from
faredon, few miles north Of Monterey
on the recently acquired Gulf road, To Sau
Pedro de Colonia, in the great cotton grow
ing LagUna district. where 1t Joins n
central branch already built connecting
with the main line. This new road is TO
cross the Mexican International VI Jarai,
ana may cut Sharply into Its business. On
the west, the Central Is credited with the
purpose indicated by actual surveys VI
~ building from Gutierrez, point near
fresnillo, on It's main line In Zucateras,
following the old stage road, TO Durango
and % of extending FROM GuadBlaiaru 10
the Pacific at San Bias, thence skirtiug the
coast of Mazatan. The latter extension
has been built about nifty miles westward
from Guadalajara, but work was stopped
by the recent growing OF an old volcano.
The scare has passed, and It Is said extern
sion is TO be resumed, with Mazstlan rs
the ultimate destination. Then, the Cen
tral, like huge giant whose head is at
III Psso aud feet at the City OF Mexico,
will have one hand on the gulf coast at
rampico and another at the Pacific At
Masatlan.
The Mexican international. which pene-
trated Durango ten years ago, aud now
OIL = T. t...... la hoo
casting wisttul eyes on Mazstan for years
past, but the rugged rock ribbed Sicrras
barred the way. II was the late c, =.
Huntingtons ambition 10 build the road
10 that splendid natural harbor ROd so hold
another transconduental route connecting
with A line Of steamers at its western end.
The project may he carried out sooner than
come people think. Anyway, the Mexican
fnteruatiOnaIS new management win ffes-
ldent Metcalfe at it's head aud on the
ground, realize, to Use slang phraseology,
that their road must go somewhere ana,
being thorough railroaders, they are hkely
10 get there. Even, at present, disregard
ing projects on foot and in the air, the
Mexican railroad situation Ia full NJ com
plexities and perplexltes for tratne men,
and II may be safely assumed that MeN'cv =
railroad commission does not diminish tho
perpleXities. The complexities, as Tar rs
| the Mexican International is concerned,
will tax all the ability and experience
which that clear headed ScotChman,
general freight and passenger agent can
! bring to bear upon them.
AS to the Mexican Central extension INTO
Texas via Laredo, announced from that
place with much apparent clrcqm 1s ahces
| ii will hardly command the assent OF lh3se
who think they know something OF tue
| situation z,,b,oo+
Though not quite germane to the subject,
| II NAV we'll be said that the bubonic plague
| is not at all likely 10 ind its way from
Mazatlan inland, Mt least not TO the easlelp !
| side of the Sierras. Rats on reaching porL
| viii quit the hold OF ship and make thel
way into nnsanitary dwellings. 9 'S6o i fsS,
! viii not climb mountain ranges luVp va
| above sea level. Those mountains are ma
tures sanitary sentncls, and, with ther
passes guarded as Mt present against ,i 100 Tl
| Of muleback passengers, the plague WI III ~
kent on the other side 1t Is . n, ,,tsIs, !,
6th-eHcouraged diesase and If no9 Md nn ana
a,iu Sootod a nroccss which every MeXicnr
ety. certainly would u be inc tine plague oSa5oF which bG
there will be an eng hoo on "a Messing in dis
after all, will nave beeh p'e9e
| ruisc,