Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-12-14
ANOTHER NORTH
AND SOUTH LINE
To Run From La Plata City, San Juan
County, to Mastodon, Dona Ana
County, Incorporated Yes.
terday.

Articles of incorporation filed yester
day at the capitol give the preliminary
plans for another railroad for the west
ern part of New Mexico. The name
OF the road is the Ell Paso & Durango
| and all of the work accomplished up
to date has been done with much Sc.
crecy. The incorporators and promot
ers are evidently members of the
Phelps, Dodge Company and the El
Paso & Southwestern Railway Com
pany which now runs into Bisbee and
Douglas, Arizona, tapping the rich cop
per fields in that section and in north
eastern Sonora.
The main line will begin at Masto
don, in Dona Ana County, at junction
with the Ell Paso & Southwestern, and
| proceed northwest through Dona Ana,
Luna, Grant, Socorro, Valencia, Nc
Kinley and San Juan Counties. Put
nam, which is at present an Indian
trading post in the southeastern part
of San Juan County, will be the north
western terminus of branch of 120
miles in length, which will run to AL
buquerque, passing south of the Chaca
Mesa and traversing Mckinley, Sando-
val and Bernalillo Counties.
S. w. French, of Douglas, Arizona,
holds all of the stock of the company
with the exception of one share, held
by each of the other six incorporators.
The capital stock of the company is
$500, 900. According to the papers filed
late yesterday afternoon, 10 per cent
o. this amount-$8O, ,000-has been
placed in the hands of the treasurer
of the company, Abraham l.. Hawley.
Charles A. Spiess, of Las Vegas, Is the
attorney for the corporation and Ste-
phen B. Davis, Jr., of Las Vegas, also,
the assistant attorney.
The members of the board of direct
ors, of whom four were in the city yes
terday spent nearly the entire day in
the office of the Territorial Secretary,
perfecting their plans. Mr.. French,
who is said to be the president of the
company was represented at the meet
ing by Charles e. Mills, Of Morenci,
Arizona, who is one of the directors.
Attorneys Spiess and Davis and Treas
Eurer Hawley, OF Ell Paso, were also
present. The articles were not filed
until shortly after four o'clock. Santa
Fe is given in the articles as the prin-
cipal place of business of the company.
The principal object of the company
seems to be the hauling of coal from
the western part of San Juan County
to the mines of southern Arizona and
Mexico, where the fuel is scarce
and high priced.
It looks as If the surveys which have
been made by the Colorado & Arizona
from San Juan to Morenci and Clifton,
Arizona, have demonstrated that the
route contemplated will offer some
great engineering difficulties and hence
the parties therein interested seem to
have taken time by the forelock by the
incorporation of more easily con.
structed road in order to have more
cheaply administered railroad from
the coal fields in San Juan County to
southwestern New Mexico and south
eastern Arizona.
The main line of the road from La
Plata City to Mastodon will be about
400 miles in length and the branch
from Putnam, San Juan County, to AL
buquerque, about 120 miles in length.
Partial surveys, it Is understood. have
already been made and more careful
and detailed surveys of the line will
commence shortly and will be prose-
cuted vigorously.
Mr.. French holds 1894 shares OF
stock out of 5000 shares of stock re-
ported as issued and paid up.