Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-09-30
TRACK AND TRAIN
NEW RAILROAD PROJECT
THE ONLY REMAINING NOUN.
TAIN PASS IN THE ROCKY
MOUNTAINS IN POSSESSION
OF THE ROCK ISLAND.
Proposed Line TO Begin at Ration And
End Somewhere on the Pacific
Coast.

The syndicate Of st. Louis capital
lists has been formed for the purpose
Of taking possession of the only re-
naming unoccupied mountain pass ut
the southern end of the Rocky noun
tain range which is practical for a
trans-continental railroad. They are
now in the. field making a personal in
spection Of the route and are due to
reach Ration, N. NJ, on October Is,
after spending thirty days In the noun
tains. The company has been incor-
porated under the name of the New
Mexico & Pacific railroad company,
and in the incorporation papers the
road is outlined to run from Ration,
N. NJ, to a point on the Pacific coast
in California. The Denver Times is
Informed on the best of authority
that the intentions Of the company
are simply to build a railroad about
e~ighty-seven miles long from Ration,
through Cimarron canyon, to Eliza
BEETHOVEN, and thereby secure posses
sion of a route which may in the near
future be much desired by mi of the
big systems seeking a route to the
Pacific.
The party is composed of Thomas
B. Harlan, of st. Louis, president OF
the company and its chief promoter:
Henry Koehler of st. Louis, president
of the Germania Trust company; DR.,
Karl Vollmer, A. w. Lambert, and
Captain +. S. Carroll all Of st. Louis,
and o. II. B. Turner, chief engineer,
Of Ration, N. M. The party was in
Denver about ten days ago and went
south over the Santa Re They went
to Maxwell City from which point they
took a stage to Elizabethtown, where
they QUILTED and began the TIP
across the mountains back to ration.
The entire survey for the eighty-seven
miles from Ration to ElizabethtoWn
has been completed and the line To-
Gated. 1t was decided to wait until
after the capitalists had personally in
spected the surveys and the resources
of the country before the contracts
were let for actual construction. It
was for this purpose that the present
trip is being undertaken.
Through cimarron Pass.
The line as surveyed begins at Rat.
on on the Santa Fe, runs TO Cimarron
CANYON. through the canyon to the MO
reno valley and thence northwardiy
TO Elizabethtown and across the Taos
valley. Captain Carroll, who accom-
panies the party, is the head OF a biz
railroad contracting firm, and ne VII
most likely get the contracts for bniid'
ing the road. The road goes tnrongn
one Of the finest scenic parts Of the
Rocky mountains, touches the beau'i
FIJI Maxwell trail, through the mex
celled Cimarron canyon and over
Taes pass and through the valley @
the same name. The promoters clam
that they will open some OF the rich
est placer gold mining claims IN the
v,orld The line also goes through IN
ancient Indian pueblo Of Taos and e
the Rio Grande valley.
A railroad official who has insia'
information on the plans Of the lars
er systems is authority for the STATE
ment that there is more behind UNI
apparently insignificant move thal
has been allowed to reach the puDn'
saws the Denver Times. The Rock =
and system recently succeeded in Sc
curing an outlet to the Atlantic coas
through the absorption Of the sea
hoard Air Line. This was followed p
the report that an outlet had been =
cnred In the Pacific coast through q
alliance with the Santa Fe. the p'
pers we're at once filled with storis
of the first railroad system " louf.
tide water on both sides Of me CON
nent. These reports were upset ye'
terday BY the official statement =
paul Morton, second vice,president 9
the santa Fe, who stated that no dea
Of any character was taking place. on
said that it was among the poss'pi
things of the future.
Rock island Perhaps.
There ii little doubt that the Roa
Island intends to reach the Paciii'
plans with that object In view wer
be;np worked out when the Souther
pacific opened It's line a. II Paso J
the Rock Island and STAYED on Y
-proposed new road. It is now unde'
stood that the Rock Island Is not sati'
aed with the Southern Pacific de'