Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-07-12
new RAILROAD To
CROSS NEW MEXICO

The largest incorpol alton fee ever
paid into the territorial treasury was
mat received last Saturday by j. w.
Kaynolds, the secretary OF the terri
tory, when the st. Louis, Rocky Noun
tain & Pacific company paid 81 ,100, as
required by law, for the Ming OF the
following articles Of incorporation:
St. Louis, Rocky Mountain q Pa
CHIC company. Inc incorporators are
henry koehler, Hugo koehler of st.
LOUIS n Charles springer OF Cimar-
ION, New Mexico. The principal place
OF business is katon, n. M, n Jer-
emIan Leahy, is named a. the agent.
Inc objects OF the company are to
nine, quarry, eXcayate, Dole and otn-
erwlse produce iron, coal, stone and
other minerals; to acquire by pur-
chase, lease, or otherwise, coal mines,
iron mines, mineral lands and other
lands and property, and mineral and
mining fights; to develop mine ana
operate such mines and property; to
buy and sell coal and other minerals;
to manufacture, purchase and sell
coke, iron n all by products; to
do a general mercantile business; 10
do a general real estate business; to
acquire water rights and privileges;
to consti uct pipe lines and mains and
establish water works, with all the
necessary equipment to manufacture
and produce electricity. The cap
ital stock is $1,000, 900, divided into
10000 shares at 500 each, OF which
10000 shares are preferred stock ana
100,0 600 shares are common stock. Ihe
number of directors shall be fixed
from time to time by the bylaws, but
If fixed at more than three, shall be-
some multiple OF three. Those who
will manage the affairs of the COM
pany for the first three months are
the incorporators.
Railway Company Also incorporated.
The same incorporatoTs also paid a
fee of $3.50 to Secretary OF the Terri
tory j. w. Reynolds for the filing of
the incorporation papers of the st.
Louis, Rocky Mountain & Pacific Rail
way company, as follows:
The st. Louis, Rocky Mountain &
Pacific Railway company. The incoI-
p%orators the Henry Koehler, Hugo
koehler, Max Koehler, Orville II. b.
Turner, and Thomas b. Harlan OF st.
Louis; jeremiah Leahy, Christopher
N. Blackwell, Ration; Charles X. Beck
man, New York city; Charles spring
er, Cimarron. The purposes for which
this corporation was formed are to
construct, maintain and operate a rail-
road for the conveyance of persons
and property for hire. The capital
stock is $4,000, 900, divided into $4,000
shares OF 500 each. The term OF ex-
istence is fifty years and the principal
place OF business is Ration, New Mex
leo, with jeremiah Leahy named as
agent. The directors are the incor-
poratoIs.
The eastern terminus of said road
is at a point forty-fiVe miles north
west of Clayton, on the Colorado a.
Southern railway, near Des Moines,
in township 29 north, range 29 east,
in Union county, New Mexico. From
this point the road takes a northwest
ely direction to Ration, in township
81 north, range % east, in Coliax
county, a distance OF about forty-fve
miles. From Ration the road turns to
the southwest, passing near Dawson,
in township 28 north, range 20 east,
to a point near Cimarran, in township
u north, range 10 east, a distance of
1890 - ANS AA0 "a Anlb DOluL
the road turns in a n~oIthwesterly d.
rection through Cimarron canyon, to
the western terminus at a point near
Elizabethtown, in township rs north,
range 10 east, a distance of about
twenty miles. This gives an entire
length Of road of about 100 miles and
opens up the large coal fields in Union
and ColfaX counties, conceded TO be
Thn larDnGf hAIxr % AAaI ~.
ownership in the world. This field
comprises about $4,000 acres, and in
cludes an area of about 500 square
miles. Beside opening up these coal
helds it will furnish an eastern outlet
to the fertile Taos valley for the ship
ment of the large productions OF agri-
cultural products and fruits.
II is believed that the moving spirit
behind the enterprise is the great chi
cago, Rock Island & Pacific railway
system, and that it is more than likely
that within the next few months arti-
Giles of Incorporation for a railroad
company TO build from Ellzabethtown
south through the Taos pass and then
west through the territory, and on 10
the Pacific coast, will be filed in the
office OF the secretary of the territory.
While there Is nothing sure about this,
the belief that it will come to pass is
more or less well grounded. Having
quite a number of surveys made from
Taos, through Taos, Rio Arriba and
San Juan counties to the western side
Of the territory, which one of them
will be selected, is OF course, problem
attic, but railroad men who are well
posted on the situation and on the
plans OF the Rock Island road are of
the opinion that the connection will be
an assured fact by December 81, 1907.