The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-06-06
SEE ROCK ISLAND IN
CARLSBAD RAILROAD.

Railroad experts along the Poetic
coast profess to see the hand of the
Rock Island system in the proposed
railroad line between Carlsbad, N NJ,
and Quanah, Texas for which prelimi
nary lines are now being run, the
plan being. according to the rumors,
to acquire a right of way through to
the Pacific coast from the Rock Island
lines in Texas. The Los Angeles
News says of the project and its ac-
companying rumors:
Railway surveyors are engaged in
running lines southwesterly from
Quanah, Texas, and west from Carls-
bad, N. M. From the men 1t is i'm
possible to learn the objective point
or for whom they are working. Sew
eral things, however, point to solu-
tion of the mystery and it is alleged
that the Frisco-RockIsland People
are responsible for the survey, and
that this corporation Is preparing to
extend its system to the Pasific coast,
with San Diego and Los Angeles as
coast terminals.
1t long has been shown that the
officials of the systems have mad their
eyes on the Pacific coast as a final
terminal for their lines. Also it is
known that, through tTackage arrange
ment, they have been sending in trains
TO Los Angeles over the Southern Pa
cific road and that there has been an
agreement amounting to truce and
division of territory between Harri-
man and the heads of the Rock Is
land and the Frisco systems.
In view of the recent developments
there is every reason to believe that
amicable relations between Hartman
and the FTisco-Rock Island people are
at an end. BY a sharp movement
Hartman has wrested from the Fris-
CO the control of the Gulf Coast liae
and this cannot be pleasant to Presi-
dent B. F. Yoakum of the Frisco sys-
tenn The story has just been made
public now the Union Trust company
financed the gulf line known as the
St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico. and
now on the completion of the line,
the trust people refused to turn the
property over to Yoakum but through
It's directors gave control of the road
20 Hartman 1t transpired that Harri-
man was behiad the Union Trust COM
pany and that Yoakum has unwitting-
ly placed himself in the hands of his
opponent.
CHANGING at the map of the Rock
Island and Frisco lines, 1t will be seen
that the surveyors are following
line which would, added to one of the
Frisco lines, make the most direct
route between Chicago and the coast.
A Frisco line leaves Chicago. running
directly south to DaaviHe, Ill. Thence
1t takes q bee line southwest to Qua
nah, Texas. Extending this directly
southwesteriy line. to Carlsbad. n. M,
ds reached. From this point a line
due west strikes San Diego. passing
just south OF Phoenix
It is probable that, in building this
extension, the line would deviate from
the direct sufficiently to hit Phoenix.
It In limited that Spreckles. who is ac-
lively engaged In building or prepar-
ing 10 bnild from San Diego east 70
Yuma, Is acting in conjunction with
Toalr1m of the Frisco and President
Wlnchell OF the Rock Island Those
who are familiar with Mr.. Spreckles'
past experience In railroad building
are satisfied that tais line In which
ne is 7cw interested win not be oper-
aked Nv HIM. but win be turned over
to soms railway system. ms was his
lina n this state which became a part