Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-09-19
Ell PASO HOPES
FOR NEW ROAD
TO THE COAST
HarrimaR's Reported Plan to
Break With Rock Island, it is
Believed, viii Compel New
Line 10 Coast.

Ell PASo. Sept 1s.--If reports cur
rent in local railroad circles are true,
and they would seem 20 be for the
Herald printed a dispatch yesterday
that second daily train on the T. &
p is POSSIBLE. E. H. Hartman is pre-
pairing, with the cooperation of Geo.
Gould, TO put his heel down on the
Rock Island hard and fast, says the FL
Paso Herald.
And If he does it, El Paso Will likely
have another through railroad to the
Pacific Coast in a short time, for the
Rock Island can then only get out of
El Paso and TO the coast by building
-at least by building in the gap be-
tween the western terminus of the
Southwestern at Benson and the east
ern terminus of the Spreckels road
now building from San Diego to Yu-
Iua.
Report has it that Hartman will
abrogate his agreement to carry Rock
Island trains over the S. p. TO Cali
fernia, and that instead ne VIII haul
the Could trains from of the I. & P.
and the iron Mountain and other east
ern Gould connections. This would
leave the Rock Islands western ter
minus at Ell Paso until il coald build
or get 20 the Pacific coast by some
other traffic arrangement
The Details.
According to report IN circulation
among local railroad men. an arrange
ment is being planned by which the
Southern Pacific and the Texas & Pa
cific will perate a through train sim
liar to the Golden State Limited DE
tween Chicago and the Pacific coast"
There are no officials of either the
Southern Pacific or the Texas & Pa
cific in FL Paso from whom a state
ment regarding the matter can be OBJ
tanned, but the report Is current
among Representatives OF the roads
concerned, as well as among other
railroad men, and there Is a general
disposition to give credence to it. The
only argument SO far heard against
the correctness of the report is that
the roadbed of the Texas & Pacific is
not in condition to carry fast train
such as the one proposed, and this Is
answered by the statement that the
Texas railroad commission has al
ready ordered the Texas & Pacific to
put down new rails and make goo0
ballast for the road, and this must be
done in any case.
y oFCdh WIFI FlCSh fSidttl.
II is the general opinion that if the
reported pending arrangement goes
through, the Southern Pacific will
break with the Rock Island, and by re-
fusing to take the Golden State Lin
tied, win eliminate that train as a
competitor. since it could in such an
event come only to Ell Paso. The
route TO Chicago by way OF the Texas
& Pacific is said to include the Iron
Mountain and the Wabash, Dy way OF
TeXarkaRa and st. Louis This would
give a little longer haul than the
Golden State has over the Rock Island
the distance from El Paso to Chicago
over the Texas & Pacific being 1888
miles, while over the Rock Island it
is only 1865 miles, but 1t is argued
that with a good roadbed for the Tex
as & Pacific. this excess of 10 miles
would be easily overcome.
Color to Repor-.
The dispatch published in the Her
aid yesterday that plans are being
made for an additional passenger train
over the Texas & Pacific TO Fl Paso
gives color TO the report In circulation
here today. in the opinion of railroad
men, and the further fact that Harrf-
man has recently acquired a foothold
in the Gould roads. which include the
Texas & Pacific and the Iron Noun
tain. and dictates their policy, streng-
thens the belief here that the report
is correct.
1t was said today by a man who
is probably as well acquainted with
the inside of railroad affairs of the
southwest as any man in the city, that
the Rock Island has only a mileage
contract with the Southern PacfIc
which can be terminated by either
party to the contract Oh 90 days no
tice. II this is correcr, the Southern
Pacfic is free to make contract with
the Gould lines at any time and to re-
fuse to handle the Golden State LIN
tied. In any event, :t IS the general
opinion that there is a deal on between
Hartman and Gould in which the for
mer will not come out a smaller man
than he goes in.
The fact that Vice President J.
Kruttschnitt, of the Southern Pacific,
who has been summerfng in Califor-
MIA, is on his way to Chicago and will
pass through FL Paso this afternoon,
is believed to have unusual signifi-
cance apropos of the report in circu-
lation
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