The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-02-11
THE PEcoS VALLEY
Ell PASO RAILROAD

The Ell Paso Herald, of Friday, con-
tanned much matter in regard to the
proposed Ell Paso-Pecos Valley rail
road. In speaking of the amount of
business for the road. it says:
The only tonnage that would deve-
lop Immediately on either route be-
tween terminals is live stock. At pres
eat there are said to be about $780,
900 head in the region tributary to
the proposed Several compan-
les plan to add about $4,000 head
TO this total as SoOn as they finish
their work of developing water. The
grass is luXuriant almost everywhere.
The Pecos Valley.
But 1t is not all at necessary to
the success of the project that exten
sive tonnage be developed along the
line of the road The line is short,
and the exchange of commodities be
tween FL Paso and the Pecos Valley
would probably be extensive and pro.
fitable enough to justify the building
of a railroad. even if no through line
were contemplated.
The Pecos Valley is legitimately
within Ell Paso's wholesale trade ter
ritory. Ell Paso has advantages of com
petftive rates that the Pecos towns
never can approximate, md if we had
a short line between FL Paso and the
Pecos Valley the traffic, both passen-
ger and freight, would be enormous.
Ell Paso is the natural metropolis of
all that region. The people over there
recognize it clearly than we do,
because they know what a handicap
they are under in having to trade with
h distant cities.
On h other hand, the great move.
ment of live stock from Arizona. west
nrn TnYaC on6 cnufhnrn NInu, NIav;ao
is now toward southern California.
where there is an immense and in
creasing demand. California and Mex
leo are the legitimate markets for
Pecos Valley stock, and for all the
region such a line would drain, includ
ing Ii panhandle of Texas.
Ell PaSo and Arizona would consume
immense quantities of the produce of
the Pecos Valley if it could be mad
cheaply, notably forage, grain, vegeta-
bles, eggs and poultry. Ell Paso and
the territory west consume immense
quantities of stuff not produced here
but produced in perfection and abu1-
dance in the Pecos Valley. We have
the manufactured goods to sell to the
merchants of that section. Thus a fair
exchange is provided
The Pecos Valley is already rich
and prosperous, but its future devel-
opment will astonish the people them
selves. There is a region of several
hundred square miles that will with
in a few a be closely populated
with the very best class of American
homemakers, and it is Ell Paso'S priv
ilege to tie those people to us in a
trade sense, as well as in a social
enSe.
Through the Panhandle
But the most enticing feature of the
whole project is the possibility of
building a line straight across the
panhandle of Texas, to connect Ell
Paso and the Pecos Valley, by the
shortest possible line, with one of
the great trunk lines to St. Louis or
Kansas City. and with the fine Goa
fields of Oklahoma. The panhandle
has been settling up in a remarkable
way the past few years. Homeseekers
are going in by thousands. the open
range is a thing of the past Towns
have sprung up as large as the Pc
cos Valley towns The people have
discovered that they can raise abun-