Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-08-19
Will be Completed by February
the Ist. so Thinks Senator
Andrews.
POLITICAL CON-
DITIONS EAST
Maine and Vermont Will Give Handsome
Republican Majorities...RooseveIt
Will Carry New York and
New Jersey.

Senator w. H. Andrews, president
OF the Santa Fe Central Railway and
the Albuquerque Eastern Railroad,
who arrived in the city yesterday
from Pittsburg. Pennsylvania where
he has been during the pas. two
months on financial AMI railroad mat
ters, informed i repre- sentative of the
| New Mexican that active construction
| work on the albuquerque Eastern had
already commenced by the bridge
gang, which with considerable
force of men is now engaged in con-
structing bridges on the IA miles of
grade west of Moriarty already con-
structed. Contracts for ties and bridge
timbers have been entered into and
a considerable part of this material
is now being delivered by the contract
ors. Within short time a force of
men will be placed in the field to
continue the building of the grade to
the Hagan coal fields, and also
through the Tijeras Canon to the city
of Albuquerque. Work will be pushed
rapidly and the funds to pay for it are
ready and at the disposal of the COM
pany Senator Andrews feels reason
ably certain that through trains will
be running from Santa Fe to Albuquer-
que by February the first via the San
ta Fe Central and the Albuquerque
Eastern in three and one-half hours,
which naturally will prove of great
benefit to both towns and will estab-
lish better and more favorable busi-
ness and social relations. The Sen
ator feels very hopeful of being able
to carry out the railroad plans which
he. General Francis j. Torrance, Ar
thur Kennedy and other Pittsburg
capitalists and owners of the Santa Fe
Central have in view These plans,
when carried into actual existence,
will certainly develop the central part
of New Mexico and bring people and
capital into that section. The project
of building from Willard to Ell Paso is
still under consideration, as is the con-
struction of the Santa Fe Central from
Torrance to Roswell.
Being asked what he thought of the
political conditions in the east, the
Senator said he felt sure that Roose-
welt and Fairbanks would be elected
and would have a handsome majority
in the electoral college. The Demo-
Gratis are putting up hard fight in
the New England States now in order
to make gains in next months elec-
tions in Vermont and Maine. Their
object is to show that the Republican
tide in the New England and in the
Atlantic coast States is ebbing and
they are doing their utmost to bring
the Republican majorities in the two
states named in the election on Sep
tember the 9th and 18th below the ma
jority given the Republicans in 1896
and 1900. Strenuous efforts are also
being made by the Democratic Ma
tional Committee in New York, Con-
necticut and New Jersey. but the SEN
ator is confident that Vermont and
Maine will show an increased majority
next month, and that while the fight
in New York and New Jersey will be
hard one, that Roosevelt and Fair
banks will carry these two states. Con-
necticut he considers safe for the Re-
publicans. From Pennsylvania west,
on his Journey out, he found that the
Republican ticket was steadily gain
ing and he is of the belief that Roose-
velt and Fairbanks will carry every
western and middle state.