The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1905-02-06
RAILROAD PROSPECTS.
Much New Building Is Scheduled for
New Mexico.

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New Mexico.
The New Mexican has made a care
full survey of the railroad situation in
New Mexico and after due and diligent
inquiry, finds it to be very favorable
to the building of several hundreds Of
miles of track during the present ds-
cal calendar year. This is not build
ing railroads on paper, but this infor-
nation is based upon facts and letters
from first class sources. The Albu-
querQue Eastern railroad is in course
of active construction between Mori-
arty on the Santa Fe Central railway
and the city of Albuquerque. The line
when completed will be forty-fve miles
in length and the branch to the Hagan
coal fields, eighteen miles in length,
thus will be added siXty-three miles OF
railroad to the mileage now in opera
tion. The Eastern railroad of New
Mexico, or "The Cutoff" as it is COM
monty called, from TeXico through the
counties of Roosevelt, Chaves, Tor
rance and Valencia to Puerco station
on the Santa Fe Pacific will also be
built during the year. 1t may not be
completed. but that part of it will be
in running order by the 1st OF Janu-
ary, 1906, seems assured.
Work will commence at an early
date from Texico west and from Helen
east. The line will be 212 miles in
extent. 1t is not exactly known as yet
where it will cross the Ell Paso &
Northeastern and the Santa Fe Cen
tral on the eastern side Of the Rio
Grande, but that it will cross the Santa
Fe at Belen is fixed.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
has made and is making several sur
veys in San Juan county and the New
Mexican is informed by reliable au-
thority that it is very likely that grad
ing on the extension of that line from
Durango to Pennington along the Ami
mas river, a distance of about sixty
miles, will commence about April lst.
1t is said that grading contracts have
been awarded to J. B. Orman of Pu-
eblo and Kirkpatrick Brothers of wy
oming. It is also said that this exten-
sion of the Denver & Rio Grande rail-
road will be broadgauge and will be
finished in time to move the great and
increasing fruit crop of San Juan
county this fall. What the plans of the
Denver & Rio Grande are as to ex-
tensions to the south, this paper has
not as yet been enabled to learn, but
it believes that the report it has re-
ceived as to broad-gauge extension
to Pennington is correct and will SO
prove within few weeks.
The Durango & FL Paso railroad,
which is backed by the 5Phelps-Dodge
& Company people and the FL Paso &
Southwestern railroad, has several
corps of surveyors in the field in San
Juan, Mckinley and Valencia counties
AS far as can be determined now, the
Durango & Ell Paso will build and that
within the next twelve months from
Duarngo to some point on the SANTA
Fe Pacific west of Grant station and
east of Gallup and will strike the
Santa Fe Pacific in that section. IL
will then, so this paper is informed,
use the tracks of the Santa Fe Pacitlc
and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa re
via Belen south to a connection with
the Ell Paso & Southwestern at or
near Ell Paso, Texas. The trackage
from the New Mexico line TO the
Santa Fe Pacific is estimated at l4O
to ITO miles.
The Colorado & Arizona railroad
has also several corps of surveyors IN
the field in western New Mexico ana
the commencement of active work on
it's proposed lines may also be ex-
pected during the coming year.
The Durango, Roswell G Gulf rail
road, incorporated by the Pittsburg
capitalists, who have built the Santa
Fe Central and are building the Albu-
querque Eastern, namely, General
Francis ]. Torrance, Senator Arthur