Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-04-28
Earnings Of Lines Seriously Affected ~ EarIn'
Merchants Begin Business at Once.

For several years past The chieaso
,noek Island 4 Pacific and tine H.
fsuls Il San Francisco systems hare
.*sa maturing plans tor reaching -
gu,f posss n a;aisesson and New Oh"
1..ns The ambitions M The Rock Is
land xsse rimost realized some thfes
"a fnar years ago. when ne company
catered Into a contract VITA 1hs
S,mshsrn Pacific company for the paf-
chase II \ hast interest In - hoas"
IN 4 Texas Central and The Texas
New Orleans. hui the deal failed ha"
cans. III the position NJ The Texas
~s,frnaa commission. which refused 10
tlse lts official sanction 70 ths ~.
chase. The Rock Iisiand ALREADY
reached Dallas md Fort Worth anu
he Joint ownership NJ the rosas nam.
III would have given n The aesifsa
ouslet IN The gulf without the con
struetion of any new mileage WINE
IN action of the Texas commission
delayed its plan, the Rock Issaun 80
never for q moment abandoned US
idea Of reaching Galveston and WITH
in The mast week the official announce
ment has been made of the eonsusia'
nation Of new plans which VIII give
I'M company an entrance into Calves
ton and the N. Louis 4 = Francis.
60 a line into New oriesfs.
within the past year the Trinity
d Brazos Valley. u new line extending
from cisburne 10 Mexia. Texas. I'D
niles. WINS purchased by a syndicate
which has acquired an interest In the
Colorado Il Southern and which was
headed by b. r. foakant. the OH.
clal head OF the Chicago. Rock Island
n Pacific and the ST. Louis 4 san
rrancisco systems. and the extension
III the road from Mexia to Houston
with a branch north To Waxahachis
in the direction Of Dallas was hegnnI
Later the same syndicate acquired
fhe Orange ii Northwestern, extend
I'M from Orange north To Buna. Tex
nd. and tho Beaumont. Sour Lake =
western, extending from Beaumont
west 10 Sour Lake. Texas. Further
nore the Colorado. Southern New Or
leans h Pacific was incorporated =
build from Baton Rouge west 10 ~
Quincy, La, from which point q lin
I'd Houston was 10 be obtained p
trackace arrangements with the Kan
sas city Southern from De Quincy z
Belmont, and the extension OF th'
beaumont, Sour Lake & Wester'
from sour Lake to Houston. Neitne
me Rock Island nor the Frisco ha,
4 interest Id these slines, wnicl
were known AZ Yoakum roads. IN
annarent intention was to make then
part 81 the Colorado A Southerl
system and 10 connect them with tn
II Louis, Brownsville 3 Mexico.
new line built by Mr.. Yoakum an
Mn associates from q connection VII
the Santa re 1t = point south I
Houston. southeast along the ~
coast ID Brownyiile. Texas, On ~
Mexican border.
Much has been written Of ne ne
system being built up BY MT. Yoaks'
and His friends and many theoris
a. exploded BIZ the announcement
that the Rock Island has acquired
half interest in the Trinity = Brazt
valley, the other half interest g I
held ~ the Colorado = soutner'
which now reaches Fort Wort
through its ownership q me "
worth 1 Denver City railroad. II
TRINITY & Brasos Valley road, whis
vii Be operated d ! separate pro
ertv. has acquired trackage rign
oyer the santa re from Cleburne
Fort worth and from Houston g "
weston. and trackage rights over y
missouri. Kansas Z Texas from We
ahachie to Dallas. This viii give y
Rock Island outlets 70 the gulf fro
both Dallas and Fort Worth and
esnects til be able 70 run throul
trains I'd Galveston BY January.
next when the extensions 70 Dali
ana Houston viii have been complet
h II claimed that the Trinity