Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-05-12
CONCERNING NEW
STREET RAILWAY
Promoters Agree TO Have Road
Constructed Within Year
After Securing
SUBSIDY asD FRANCHISE WANTED

electric limo iniB tho Highlands roai-
donco district are busy today having
drawn ur and tyneUftlou copies of
tho pgfeamuDf which land owners in
the Highlands will be- asked fo aIsn la
raising th0 $4,000 Subsidy asked for
by the prnmniOm.
I'VE have consulted electrical onFI.
noors and street railway men said
Col D ~ % Sellers. one oI tha can-
taliais wha ia Interested in emo pros
posed now street railway. "and baVn
aaotr'aiuel that iho Tine ao urluurn
tl bulld. uut EnHl Railroad avenue.
and taking in several CROSS streets in
the more thickly sotllod districts uf
the Highlands viii cost m $4,000.
including equipment
Those promoters interested in the
movement. aii OF whom have inter.
eais ln property lu che Highlands.
have sgrood in put up half of this
amount provided enc property oWnofn
On the Highlands will 8ubgcribo tho
other haif u - purely a local affair.
no Uutslio capital being Interested ln
The movement sud d Us not our To-
tentlou Co build tho read for divi-
dends. we are merely a party % men,
handed together. who desire tp 500
a street railway built into the iligh-
lands. f9r the purpose of enhancing
the values ~ our property and We boz
liovo thia tho quickest and cheapest
mauuer of settling ~. f3r :, certainly
acoms thar the Tract Ion company does
not iniond % give che residents oi tho
hishlnnda street railway aarFlca
'lt hiss hnen rum9rod That thia "a
moroly "a move on che part oi tho
Traction company TO secure o $4,000
subsidy from iho people, aNor which
they viii build into no Highlands.
This ! positively dcuy no soul
connected With iho Albuquerque Tnc-
t.on company has fhinE io Do with
thh movement nor "a Interested ln n.
financially in any manner"
hcaofdinE tu fho agreement whlc1
wNi hn presented ~ ihe residents Of
thr Highlands f1f .hNf HieuNuro in
rAlNlng the $4,000 llhaIiF nfHnrfiv
uNnera on Eafi Railroad avenue.
ifum fbe hlramdh hDni i1 enc ami.
vufHiiy Wili be sfhed fo mhHclbn at
IN rafo 10 nfY eonla nar lroni foot.
Residents ON aido streets, two hiOcka
ia onrh direct u wili fhtu Do Hp-
preached ana asked fo snhscribe at
thO ratio ~ 20 cdui8 nof front fraf OBJ
the flrsi blocks. nnA 1874 eonn Ter
lr1ui tool ~ lhc second hincha
eve have Already secured $1,000
from three property owners lu ihn
Highlands" said Cal Sellers. +and &.
y. CarV 0f los Angeles. tho only
nau-nalient. Interested ln fho build
ing uf tho r1n,.. who owns econ s'dor-
has HFneod f0 subscribe $500.
HHH fHn NUU l...H..H.H.. u.
"a by ne Highland realdeuia. VIZ nnl-
puao ana wlll agree % begin Ol,lm-
lions un thH construction of tho read
within thirty days thereafter
We viii ~ before the cfy council
and ask a franchise sf che hfni meet
Ing OF that b0dy after the subsidy has
uelu faised, and aiaFt c0natriri on ng
once and wiil furihfr HTree rn nave
the road iH opafailru within Uno yehr
nff0r tha granting uf ihe franchise
fhr only thinH We Tear fUr fees
safe in stating that tha agha.lv Wlr
certainly b. faitei. b. fhnf tho Tmc-
tluL company Wl.i alleys that their
franchise cuFefs overV rifanf la tho
city and Wili lry. through eeai nr1
oeed.ngs ga delay ug na long as pos-
B.hle
"if after iho road q causlrueled.
of ni ans timo during lis construction.
the Traction or any 0htr company.
secs ht in wani io purchase % Wo VIII
aeI lf t0 ihom f0r fho nctuai cost 0f
construction uu iho proFiaa aniY. fhal
tno road he completed pos in luan-
tnn and kHni in aunmllun
Representative uf fhn nr rfI
e'eftrio street railway oumunnY arc
o1t this aifnnoH calling uuun fhe
prneuy oUnnU in fho Hiehln1r.
wiih copies of fhn hsrtomcnf ir-
scriood aiuVe ana are reported f0 nn
moetmg Hith m1ch success