Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1904-11-26
BIG CHANGES ARE
PLANNED BY RAILROADS
The Santa Fe viii Relocate
Line in a Number Of Places
on Account Of storms.
MUCH ACTIVITY CONTEMPLATED


rOad circles in Ncw Mexico and Ari
IONA and tho construction OF these .
roads will be- of great bonont to Denver
and Colorado. said Frank s. Luak.
the railroad contractor. 90 the Denver
Republican cine Santa Fe is plan
ming o. relocate Cos trau8cOnunontnl .
line. which means practically tno con
struC lon OF new railroad in Rev
Mexico % is desired to got away /
FROM what might be termed the cloud I.
hurrt section of enc territory. The
Southern Pacific D. also planning aome
changes. bot us principal business AZ
present seems to be Efforts 90 block
the Santa BE.
Both roads are hrhting for vaTiour
passes and canyons and rights Of way
tina, are uf great value There ere
numerous box canyons desired THAI
have perpendicular sides. and whore
there ls room for only one road. I
understand that the Santa Re, how.
ever. hns bton successful thus Ear IN
securing such passes and canyons as
@ desires. and that % viii be equally
successful iu securing others.
"ThC santa Fc. bob its now line.
which is termed n cut on win nof on.
By avoid tho cIoudburst section. where
10 has losi thousands upon thousands
of dollars. and whore BE- bias caused in
Vulnerable and long maponaiunH of
business. but 10 VIII avoid Ration hil
and other steep grades fhIs means
a big reduction boz Grades rs woll aa
a reduction u curves. and q an moauG
that o. viii bc reasonably safe 10 do
business the year around, and what
ia mprc. haul heavier loads
"This work of the Santa Pc is one
planned years ago and contemplate.
believe, "a cutoff from a point ON
Che main line lu Kansas through the
southwestern corner Of Colorado %
the main line. ] avn not thoroughly
familiar with the entire plans 81 the
company. nus do know that % means
a tremendous saving in cost uf opera.
ti0n
"Just what plans the southern Pa
cinc contomplatcs / DO not know Thc
company however proposed numerous
Shortcomings ln its limo AMI reductions
In curves and grades.
Perhaps the road Uiat win mean
moro than any othor to Colorado and
Denver is the one Co be- built from
Durango south t0 l.ordsburg D. opens
now country and connects with tho
Phelps D0dro system of roads in Ari-
IONA and New Mexico This rodd will
be built beyond question True. &c has
so often been said that o. would De
constructed that people have begun to
look upon such a statement ratnCr as
Joke. but this time q Ga mo- joke but
an actual fact
Southern Colorado coal must be-
soften down into New Mexico and
Arizona and when tho Durango road
is built % can hc transported direct
end az . nominal price into the terri.
tories and distributed hy the Phelpa.
Dodge roads That means a trcmcn-
dous activity lea the southern coal
Fields. The construction of the rOad.
too. means the Hhipmen' OF Colorado
agricultural and horticultural products
into the southwest
"Thc Phelps Dodge syndicate pro.
duccs 5000 tons of copper mau annu.
ally and has plants az Muronci. Globe,
iIshee and Douglass in Arizona and
a. Naoozari. New Mexico u began
che construction OF ruiirOads Co got
les products from the mines 90 tho
SHELTERS and the products 0f the lat.
ter cut as well as % furnish suppllo0.
Il haa connected up the numerous
bits OF road thar H. either built or
bought and @ nov has q system IN
New MoxiCo and Arizona ~ GOO miles
~ standard puago ruairoad
- built considerable of the system
and am personally proud OF the work
The line 90 Morenci is the most re-
markable railroad I have ever seen
There are Eve loops I'm eighteen miles
and three loops I'm n mile and a half
D. Cno8so8 one box canyon on an
e,Rhtyfoot acol girdor bridge that ia
100 feet high II Is purely a business
road. however. and only "a stray tour
lst ever goes over 70. but is is certain
ly wonder Those Phelps odg.
roads. naturally. form a network o..
rails ia the two territories and when
the Durango road connects with th,
system you can easily see the im
menso benefits that win accrue d
Denver and Colorado
"All that country down there natu
rally looks 90 Denver as the big cts
and they naturally turn 90 Denver fol
an their machinery The demand ioI
machinery ln the two territories q
enormous and an this trade shOul,
come 10 Denver and Will when rail
road communication Is more easily so
cured"
Mr. LuHk Ga enthusiastic over IA,
uO,lOok for the territories and sayl
that a few years hence VIII see th'
completion OF roads. His declaration
of the construction of the Durango
Loriaburg road % the most importnn
bit Of railroad noWa tnat nehver ha0
had FOR some time. and the faot ina
the Santa Fo will change hsl line d
also good news The railroad wOrl
uuil'"0d by him means the oxpendl
lures % many millions Of dollars d
Ne wNeKioo and Arizona.
"a. j. Simmons, general manager o
the fholps-Dodgo roads. was On tow