Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-07-30
TO COMPLETE
SCENIC ROUTE
From Santa Fe to
Pecos Reserve
First.
RATION MUST WAIT FOR TURN
Las Vegas Next---L.ack of
Funds at Penitentiary
the Cause.

The Scenic Highway east of Santa
Fe is to be pushed as rapidly as pos
gible, to completion, and an extra
squad of convicts is to be put to work
bit once.
This was announced by Governor
Hagerman at noon today following a
conference with Superintendent Ar
thur Trelford of the territorial prison
hnd Captain Fred Fornoff OF the
mounted police. About thirty-fve men
hre at work in the canon at present
hnd fifteen or twenty more will be add
BID to the present force at once. There
remains about five miles of the road
TO be built to the western lime OF the
Pecos forest reserve. AS soon as this
Road is finished, the convicts will be
Bent at once to Las Vegas to complete
The highway there. Owing to the con-
iition of affairs at present and also
b the law upon the question, no work
:, an be done at Ration ON the highway
which is to lead to the Colorado line,
Until after the completion Of the two
rSads mentioned.
In speaking of the present state of
affairs, Governor Hagerman this af-
tfnoon said
Conditions Are UnfavorabIe.
''When the matter of completing
these highways was first brought to
ny attention, I Immediately ex-
%essed myself as in favor Of doing all
hat could be done to this end. How
over, conditions are such that only one
ibad can be finished at time. In
The first place, looked up the law
m the subject and 1t states that the
Highway from Santa Fe to the west
ign line of the Pecos reserve and the
highway from Las Vegas to the east
Vii line of the same reserve shall be
Constructed and then, the Highway
hall be built from Ration to the Colo
lAdo state line.
lit would therefore be Illegal to start
York on the Ration road, however,
luch l should favor it, until after the
completion Of the other two roads.
The most embarrassing feature of the
situation at present, is the lack OF
cuvicts.
Question Of Finance Only.
FINANCES at the penitentiary are
III such a shape that it is necessary
I'd keep a large number of men con-
SANITY at work in the brick plant in
Older to make enough brick Ito pay
etpenses The superintendent must
manufacture and sell all the bricks
possible in order to keep things NOV
iig. He is now having two big kilns
constructed in order to increase the
burning capacity by 10000 bricks
This will require the attention of ad.
dtional men. When separate forces
of convicts are maintained on the
highway, the expense of guarding
thbm is greatly increased and the
chances of escape become greater
'The remaining five miles of the
robd east of this city are through a
country where it will take a much
longer time to accomplish anything
tIhhn it did on the road now completed
There are some places where blasting
through solid rock for a considerable
distance, is necessary.
u looked over the highway at Las
Vegas as far as it is finished. The
work there was we'll done but there
are places where repairs will have to
I'D made as we'll as considerable
stNetch to be finished. / do not know
jult when work can be started out Of
Ration. believe that the task should
be taken up in systematic way and
the road completed.
There is possibility that the gov.
ernment will consent to build con
Imitation Of the Scenic Highway
through the Pecos reserve. While
do not know what has been done
along this line, yet l hope that such
a toad will, in the course of time, be
constructed"