Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-04-03

LOCATION
PIats for the Ell Paso.Durango
Railroad From Pennington
to Hosta Buttes.
FILED IN LAND OFFICE
Strike Santa Fe Pacific Near Grant
Station...Connect at Pennington
With Denver & Rio Grande.

1 lie plutS OL lIl0 peIlHdlOlrI iSSe'eAoA
of the Ell Paso-Durango Railroad, from
a point in section 5, T 16 N, R II w,
in Mckinley County, to Pennington in
section 13, T 29 N, R 19 w, in San Juan
County distance of about IS miles,
have been filed in the United States
land office in this city From Farming
ton, in the northern part of San Juan
County, the road follows Gallego Can
on to a point near Angels Peak, where
it turns south across a mesa to the
Canon de Ojo Amarillo. Turning west
it strikes the Mesa Fachada at point
near Stony Butte. Following this
mesa the road crosses the San Juan
Mckinley County line near Putnam
and then runs southwest to point
near Hosta Butte. From this point the
line will in all probability turn toward
the southeast and run near San Mateo
where it will again take a southwest
erly course and strike the Santa Fe
Pacific at point between Grant sta
tion and Bluewater in Valencia Coun
ty. A surveying party is now at work
in T 13 N, r 8 w, and is heading to-
wards Grant station, but owing to the
roughness of the country there, may not
be able to get into this station with a
feasible Line.
The permanent location as shown by
the plats is as follows: Beginning at
a point in section 5, T 16 N, R II w,
thence north through TIL N, R W.
T II N R 10 w, T 1S N, R IL w, T
10 N, R II w, r 20 N, r 12 w, in Nc
Kinley County; thence through T 81
N, R IL w, T 20 N, R 13 w, T % N,
r 10 w, T 23 N, R 12 w, T 23 N, R
II w, T "a N, R IL w, T "a N. R u
w, T 25 N, R 12 w, T 26 N, R II w.
T 27 N, R 12 w, T 2S N, R 12 w, T
29 N, R IL w, to town of Pennington
in section 13, T 29 N, R 13 w, San Juan
County.
Station points are fixed as follows:
At point in section Is, T29 N, R 13
w, distance of three miles from
Pennington; thence to points in the
following sections 33, T 20 N, R 12 w,
a distance of IA miles; 33, T 29 N,
R 12 w, 2.6 miles; thence to points on
unsurveyed lands in T 2S N, R 12 w,
10 miles; rs N, R II w, 10 miles;
thence to the following sections, g. T..
"a N, r 12 w, 3.8 miles, 20, T "a N,
r IL w, 62 miles; 9, T % N, R 12 w,
10 miles; 1S, T 21 N, r 12 w, 10
miles; 33, It 20 N, r IL w, 9.9 miles;
thence to point on unsurveyed land in
T 10 N, R 12 w, ~ miles; thence to
sections 80, T 19 N, R II w, 5.14 miles;
3, T 18 N, R II w, 40 miles; 13, T 1S
N, R II w, 2.5 miles; T. II N, r
10 w, 6.S miles; 5, T 16 N, R IL w,
1913 miles,
It is understood that construction on
this division of the road will COM
mence in the near future, and that
track laying will begin just as so1-
as the Denver & Rio Grande extension
from Durango to Pennington, on
which active construction is now 60
ing on, will reach the latter place. 1t
Is understood that the Ell Paso-Du-
range Railroad people have arranged
for trafflc agreement, ny WHlcn lhc
tracks of the Santa Fe Pacific Will be
used to Puerco Station, the tracks OF
the Eastern Railway of New Mexico to
Belen, and of the Rio Grande Division
Of the Santa Fe to Ell Paso. Should this
arrangement not prove satisfactory, 1t
is likely that the Ell Paso-Durango peo-
pie will construct their own line from
the point at which their road will cross
the Santa Fe Pacific, between Grant
Station and Bluewater, to connect with
the El Paso & Southwestern Railway
to Mastodon, few miles west OF FL
Paso.
From information received by this
paper 1t looks as though connection
with the 81 Paso-Durango line and
the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad would be
made at very suitable point about
four miles west Of Grant Station on
the latter road. Water in abundance
can be had at that point at depth
of from 40 to 60 feet, and the land
there is admirably adapted for town
site.