Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-02-17
TWO DAYS IN
SNOW DRIFTS
Peri|ous Experience Endured by
Sixty.Eight Persons Between
Durango and Antonito.
GREAT is SAN JUAN
Dr.. E. G. Condit Tells Of Bright Pros.
poets Of q Rich Section Soon to
Be Opened by Railroads.

DR.. E. G.. Condit, here today frol
Aztec, had a great experience wit
snow Sunday and Monday. He wa
from Saturday morning until Thurs
day evening travelling from Aztec t
Santa Fe. The trip from Aztec to D,
range, forty miles overland, was easy
but to get from Durango to Antonit
was no easy matter. There wer
twelve feet of snow on the C.mbre
Pass and the rotary snow plow brok
an axle and left the Denver & Ri,
Grande passenger train on whi. i Dr.
COndit was, in that distressing drift
There was nothing for it except % wal
for snow plow from Salida which dit
not arrive until Wednesday evening a
4 o'clock. Sixty-eight passengers were
aboard yet no one suffered either fol
food or fuel. There We're no sleepers
so no one enjoyed the luxury of bee
for the two nights they were buried ir
the beautiful. All of the passengers
had brought along plenty of food in the
event of such an emergency. Superin
tendent w. D. Lee of Alamosa was in
the party and he looked after. every
body's general comfort as far as it
could be done.
Booms San Juan.
DR.. Condit is an enthusiast about the
San Juan country. To the New MeXi-
can this morning he said:
"San Juan County, the banner coun-
ty of this Territory is now entering
upon an era of prosperity which is
sure to bring her to the front still
further. With the Rio Grande Rail
road buying rights of way, the Con-
tractors Fitzpatrick Brothers, aready
on the ground and establishing camps
every mile or so down the valley from
Durango, with sixteen car
loads of horses and nine car loads of
tools unloaded, distributed and more
to come, with some 300 men on the
grounds and more coming aeve1. $few
days, it is simply question of short
time till San Juaners can ride on the
vanished cars instead of forty miles
by buggy. The road is to be broad
gauge and extend sixty miles south,
passing through Aztec, the county
seat. The contract made with the
people of Aztec and vicinity calls for
the completion of the road into their
depot site before the 18th of October,
but Fitzpatrick Brothers, are the larg-
est contractors in the railroad build
ing business in the country and with
heir outfit there is no doubt in their
minds or with the Rio Grande officials
hat the trains will be running into
Aztec before the 4th of July.
THE Southern Pacific people are
also in the field, have their survey
and are taking options on
lights of way, and the Phelps-Dodge
people are also on hand SO that out of
t all with the Santa Fe Central ex-
ensions to San Juan County still toI
igure on, we should have at least two
" three roads there. Every year our
immense orchards are being added to
n area and more lands are being COW
,red by new bitches as we'll as many
extensions and enlargements of old
mes are going on, and an increase of
PRODUCTS.
Railroads Expect Big Business.
1T is certain that the fruit crop
lone, although immense, would not
ring the railroads, but with the tre-
nendous quantities of coal to be
mined from forty foot coal veins and
he feeding of sheep and cattle for the
market we are no longer to be over
ooked or ignored by the railroad
world. It Is twenty miles from Duran
% to the state line, and eighteen from
here to Aztec, the grading of the first
Eighteen miles of the road Is sub-let
nd the attention of the head contract
RS will now be turned to the New
dexicO end Of it. The snow Is some
wo feet deep at Durango and interiors
vith the work Of locating camps, but
Aztec last Saturday, 1t was less
han two inches. Our streams are al
rays dangerously high till late in the
eason and ferry boats and bridges
re necessary to get across. OF course
'hile we are glad to see other por-
Ions of the Territory get this snow,
et as far as San Juan County Is con-
erned, we have all we want and It
an be turned or. at any time now
nth our consent.
Good Times Ahead.
with plenty Of good water at all
lines, farm and grazing land and the
astures of the mountains Of Colora-
0 but q short distance OF, where our
attic and sheep feed and fatten in
ummer, with progressive wide
wake American population I can but
ay Amen to our able representative
. the Legislature, Judge Pendleton.
,hen he says sell all that thou hast
nd come to San Juan County.
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