Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-11-03
TRAFFIC TO
WEST IS BIC
Pacific Coast Lines Make New
Record In California
Travel
TOURISTS FOR SAN?AFE
Lower Rates for New Mexico's Capitui
and Other Territorial Towns A
Benefit to all.

That the trend of travel nowadays
is to the golden West IS very evident
from the large number of trains that
are being run daily over all roads to
California. The Santa Fe, Rock Isl
and and Denver & Rio Grande are
running their regular trains in sec
tions, sometimes four or five sections
being required to handle the immense
number of tourists that are taking ad.
vantage of the low rates offered by
these roads to California points.
Strange Equipment.
So large has been the rush from
Chicago, Kansas City, aud other
Eastern points, that the roads have
been taxed to their utmost to secure
sufficient equipment for the handling
of the crowds. AS a result, some of
the equipment looks as il 1t belongel
to the pioneer days of railroading Old
Wagner cars, built in 81, sleepers the
first ever made at the Pullman works,
abandoned private cars that car
ried presidents in the sixties, busi-
ness cars from jerkwater roads of
the Ozarks, emigrant cas-. and an
cient tourist sleepers, Aava all been
pressed into servi,e 10 haud,e he
western ttattic, which su PASSES a.
forlG. r, cords of travel to ~ c,ast
Tuesday was the last lay of the
low colonist rates to California, and
there was rush of westward travel
to get in under the limf,. Every Cal
ifornia train leaving Chicago carried
two or three sections. One road alone
hauled twenty-six extra cars on its
California trains. The rate CT $33
from Chicago was put in effect on
September Is. For several weeks
there was no appreciable increase in
the travel to California, Dut as the
period neared an end people wishing
to 60 for the winter began to move.
A rate of $25.OO from Kansas City to
the coast was also in effect, and
thereby hangs tale.
Twenty-Five Dollar Rate.
For $25 one could go from Kansas
City to any California point, and to
lots of points in Washington and Ore
gon. The majority of people who
took advantage of this low rate was,
naturally, people, who having heard
so much of the glorious climate of the
southwest, wished to make the trip for
the purpose of enjoying for brief
time, this much heralded atmosphere.
For $25.00 one could make the trip
over the Santa Fe or Rock Island,
stopping over at any California point,
long enough to be able to look the
country over. For $500 one could
go from Kansas City to the extreme
coast of California but if he merely
wished to go to intermediate points,
he was informed that the very lowest
rate he could. possibly obtain was
$3.50.
Board May Act.
The Board of Trade of Santa Fe
should take this matter up with the
different roads running into or near
Santa Fe, and try to arrange an ad-
justment before next season, so that
Santa Fe can have a rate in 2rolor-
tion to the one to California. Santa
Fe has as fine climatic and
better health conditions than has any
city on the Pacific coast. Santa Fe
has just as fine inducements to offer
homeseekers as has California. The
Board of Trade of Santa Fe should
take this matter up and not let the
management of the different roads
have any peace until they have secur-
ed for next season a correspondingly
low rate to New Mexico points, as
compared to the low rates in effect to
California points each season.
Benefit to Santa Fe.
prominent local railroad official,
in speaking of the matter said:
II am of the opinion that If Santa Fe
could get low rate such as California
points have, it would increase the
floating population of this city rs
per cent l believe that If the Santa
Fe, and the Rock Island systems and
the Gould lines, would make a cores
pondingly low rate for New Mexico
points it would Put 500 tourists into
Santa Fe this winter. We have the
climate and we have prospects just as
bright for the homeseeker as can be
found in California, and I am of the
opinion that many who now go
through to California points would
stop here If they could get a rate as
low In proportion as the one they get
to the extreme west"
s. B. Grimshaw, assistant to the
president and general manager of the
Santa Fe Central, when interviewed on
the subject replied:
II have nothing to say in reference
to the rate now in effect, other than
If the Board Of Trade Of Santa Fe sue.
cnpds in getting A low rate from east