Semi-weekly herald., 1908-04-06

T0SOUTH
Line to Connect Farm
ington with El Paso
is the Latest

The following from the Ell Paso
Herald. reprinted in the Pennington
Times-Hustler, will be eagerly read
by everyone interested in seeing
southern outlet:
To get cheap coal to FL Paso and
to lay it down at our doors at s4 a
ton, Is the purpose of the Colorado.
Columbus and Mexican railroad, the
officials of which road closed con
tract Tuesday for 36,000.0O0 feet OF
lumber with the Carter lumber com
pany. This is to be used in the con
struction of this line aud Us to be de
livered within ninety days IL not
sooner, for the primary constructive
operations at the southern terminus
OF the line at Columbus. New Mexico,
on the Ell Paso and Southwestern line,
73k miles west of Ell Paso.
| The exact route of this new road
has not been definitely decided yet,
! locating party in charge OF Engineer
| William Salmon, formerly of the In
| ternatiopal and Great Northern rail
foad, at present being at work map
! ping out the most economical line
through the territory to be covered
The starting point of the road will be
at Columbus, where It win connect
with the E. p. & S. w, and win give
| a direct route into FL Paso for the
immense coal deposits on the north
ern end of the route. From Columbus
| the line will run to Deming, through
| the Burro mountain copper camps,
| pass near Silver City. cross the Santa
| Fe at Gallup and end at Pennington,
San Juan county, New Mexico. con
| Meeting there with the Denver g. Rio
| Grande to Denver and the north
The main objective point of the c.
C. e. M. road is the coal fields of San
Juan county, New Mexico. and the
purpose is to make the road freight
| handling one to dump this coal into
Ell Paso at s4 a ton and to supply the
entire southwestern and northeastern
| field with coal and coke for smelling
| and heating purposes.
The company which is carrying on
| the preliminary operations leading to
| the construction of this road is incor
porated under the laws of New Mex-
leo and A. o. Bailey is at It's head as
president The company has offices
In Eel Paso In the State National Bank
| building and there are over forty of
| the prominent business men of Ell
Paso Interested In its construction.
A cooperative company known as the
Western New Mexico Development
| company has been organized to assist
in the promotion of this road, and
| this company is also largely composed
of Ell Paso capitalists.
The plan of financing the new road
has not yet been definitely decided
upon by the promoters, although It is
stated that a number of large eastern
banking firms have offered to take en-
tire charge OF the financial part OF the
road building. The plan that is now
being successfully worked out by Ar.
thur Stilwell, president OF the Kansas
Ciey, Mexico and Orient railroad is
being considered and II adopted the
entire road will be built with funds
subscribed by the small investors
throughout the country. The com
pany is Incorporated for $5,000.000 un-
der the laws of New Mexico and the
development company is capitalized
for 100000. 1t is the present inten-
ton to have the entire road complet-
ed and In operation within two years.
The first active construction work
, will be done at Columbus, New Mex
leo, and as soon as the grading con-
tracts are let, construction crews Will
be put to work grading out Of that
place. AS the sections OF the road are
completed, they will be equipped with
rolling stock and traffic started over
: them, thus making them at least self
supporting II not profitable, as the
Stilwell lines In Texas have proved to
be.
The projected road will run through
; some of the richest farming and coal
lands In the country, and while few
towns are touched, the promoting o.
; ficials expect to build and develop
towns along the line through the Ell
forts of the development company
Representatives of the company are
already In the coal fields preparing
for the production Of fuel as soon as
the line is completed and II will be
gin shipping coal from its own mines
into Ell Paso by way of Columbus ant
:, the Il. p. e. 8. w. railway.
3 The road. 1t is stated. is not con
4 trolled by any other railroad cor
l r,oratioY, and axnAcfa In hA frfandly