Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-04-19
FROM TEX|C0
TO RIO PUERC0
Strenuous Work on Eastern Rail.
way Of New Mexico
Commenced.
CHIEF LINK TO COAST
The John Becker Company to Put in
Extensive Stores at Willard and
Torranse on New Road.

The John Becker Company, of Be
len, has bought the entire stocks of
the Dunlavy Mercantile Company's
two stores located at Torrance and
Willard, on the line of the Santa Fe
Central Railway. The John Becker
Company will take immediate charge
of these two stores, will erect larger
and more extensive warehouses, and
increase the stock of general merchan-
disc. It will introduce into the Es
tancia Valley it's celebrated brand Of
roller process -four, manufactured at
its own roller mills at Belen and
which took the first prize gold medal
at the st. Louis fair.
Hon. Carl A. Dalies. ex-speaker of
the House of Representatives of the
seth Legislative Assembly, will have
the general management of the store
at Willard, and Wilber Dunlavy will
remain temporarily as the general
manager for the Torrance store
The deal for the transfer of these
two stores was made in this city yes
terday by William M. Berger, of Belen.
attorney for the John Becker Com
pany, with F. e. Dunlavy, president
of the Dunlavy Mercantile Company.
who transfers all the merchandise,
buildings, right Of way and good will
of these two stores to the Becker
Company The consideration was be-
-ts@een $4,000 and $45,0O0 cash. The
Dunlavy Mercantile Company retains
its stores at Estancia, Moriarty, Ken
nedy and Hagan and will increase its
stock at these points, making exten-
sive improvements so as to be ready
for the increased volume of business
which is promised this year in the
Estancia Valley.
Willard Is destined to be consider
able town in the near future as 1t Ia
at the proposed junction of the Santa
Fe Central Railway and the Eastern
Railway of New Mexico, the Belen
cut-off Of the Santa Fe System. In
week or two large force of men will
be put to work to construct the East.
ern from Willard toward Abo Pass,
there to meet the construction force
Belen. The distance from Belen to
Willard is so miles, and "a miles of
steel have been laid from Belen to
Abo Pass, in which the heavy rock
bridge work is to be done. This work
Is of the very costliest kind and
hence progress will be slow. The line
from Abo Pass to Willard is to be
completed in six months. It is quite
probable that union depot and eating
house will be built at Willard.
Mr.. Berger while in Chicago re-
Gently, spoke with President E. P. Rip
ley of the Santa Fe System, who as.
sured him that the Eastern will be
rapidly pushed to completion and that
nine-tenths of the business OF the en-
tire system would go via Belen and
Rio Puerco A connection will be
completed to the Gulf of Mexico next
year, and a fast train service inaugur-
ated from El, Paso to connect with the
trains from the east and the west.
! Mr.. Berger asserts that 100000 have
been appropriated for shops at Belen,
ana that Ration, Las Vegas, Belen and
Gallup will be the only division points
in New Mexico, the principal one at
Belen, at which point eventually all
the shops in the Territory are to, be
concentrated. The company has COM
pleted plans for a passenger and
freight depot to be 460 feet long. a 400
foot Harvey eating house, and a "a
stall round house at Belen. There are
to be nineteen tracks for the handling
Of trains at Belen. Lantry & Sharpe,
the contractors doing the construc-
tion work, have orders to push the
work with all their might and main
and have already 1000 men at work.
They are under contract to complete
the line in fifteen months
It seems certain that Belen is des-
tined to be the most important town
In central New Mexico and Mr.. Ber.
ger believes that now is the time to
get in on the ground floor, as he has
done On May I, he will launch forth
the Belen Tribune, to be at first q
weekly but as soon as the expected
growth Of the town comes, to be q
daily. He has advices showing that
the long discussed traffic agreement
between the Santa Fe System and
the Rock Island, has been signed and
that as soon as the Eastern Railway
Of New Mexico reaches Llano, which
will be by fall, both systems will be-
gin to send their through business via
Llano, willard, Belen and Rio Puerco
instead Of via ri Paso and AlbuQuer-
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