Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-09-17
ANOTHER ROAD
FOR LAS VEGAS
COED AUTHORITY ron THE nun.
OR THAT DAWSON LINE VIII
SOON &C BUILT.
NAY EXTEND TO DENVER
Direct Connection With the El psss q
&soush~esssrn Runnins North and
South From Dawson 10 Duran.

There have tssn FumoEs for some
tine that work On the construction VI
the Dawson road Through Las VEGAS
had been begun. though nothing defin'
lie could he learned. but IN is nog
declared upon good authority that sur,
ysyors are ~ work nj Corona eoaalns
towards this city on the final survey
d and that IN II only a question u a lew
months until actual construction work
will begin.
What well informed railroad men
IN the southwest declare will eyenta.
ally be through line from Ei paso
10 Denver. but which for the present
will be but q short line for the II
paso 4 Southwestern's coal mines al
Dawson To It's main line at Duran, IL
10 BE- built through central New Mex.
leo, north and south. during the com.
ing spring and summer. says the Jour.
nal.
For some time there has been talk
Of this new line aud IL has been well
known that locating parties have been
In the field between Dawson and II
pase looking for a line which will
shorten the haul on coal from the
Dawson mines. which now soes by
way Of Tueumeari: aud while no deli
mite announcement of an official ma
tare has been made from the railroad
most interested. II can be said on
what seems excellent authority. thai
the location Of this line has been com.
pIeted. the surveys approved and con.
tracts for construction ordered let In
the spring.
The route Of the new line will be
from Dawson through Las Vegas, I'm
an almost direct north and south line,
II will cross the Santa re cutoff at
Encino. where an overhead crossing
will be built which. according 10 the
report. will require some I.la0.0 400
yards Of dirt. an enormous fiji. The
pecos river will be crossed at Sar.
rito. and connection will be made with
the Southwestern's present main line
at Either Helena or Duran.
A glance at the map of New Mexi.
co will show that this road will ma
teriall. shorten the haul on coal from
the Dawson mines TO the Arizona
smelters. where most Of this coal is
now going. II will also obyiate the
necessity Of traffic arrangement
with the Rock Island system, the
Southwestern now having to haul this
coal over the Rock Island track from
Tucumcari to Santa Rosa.
The new line viii give Las Vegas
direct connection with the El Paso &
Southwestern, and IL as rumored, the
eventual terminus of the road Is Den.
yer. II will put Las Vegas on another
main line OF railroad.
Men who have heard this road dis.
cussed say that II Is talked OF as
possible link in the great plan to build
a line from Alaska to South America.
4 road has been proposed from Den
yer to connect with the new Hill line
to Alaska, and should that line be
built. a short line. such as is proposed
in this undertaking. would probably
become link in the chain.
This is only conjecture. hut so much
is known. that the line from Dawson
to Duran: or some nearby point on the
Southwestern's main line has been de.
ternlined on. -
Charles Henning is the chief engin-
eer In charge Of the locating of the
new road which win develop very
important section of New Mexico.