Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-01-14
SANTA FE WILL
MAKE RATE:
TO SUIT
Figures For the Trade Excur-
sion So Low as to Make Trip
Possible For Every AIbu-
QuerQue Business Man.
EXPENSE OVER ALL PUT
AT $1,000 TO THE MAN
Figured on Basis Of 100 Spec
iaI Train Can be Run to CarIS-
bad and Return for a Total
Cost of $4,000.

/ Cost of $1,000,
/ According to advees received yes
/ teraay by the committee on rates on
Ithe proposed trade excursion over the
cut-off and into the Pecos valley the
Santa Fe is prepared to make rate
| for a special train so low that ilSuteu
an tho hasis of one hundred passen-
1 gers the train can be run 10 CARLSBAD
/ ana return. distance Of 9S2 miles at
/ o,st over an Of not to exceed $4,000.
or $50 to the passenger rms "ou'"
include special pullman sleeping cars
/ and the equipment of the eommissarN'
1 rbaee are the estimates arrived ~
/ from A letter received yesterday from
i w Y Brown, district passenger agent
! for tho santa Fe at El Paso, anG
4 which will be referred to a meeting OF
the general committee which Wlli DC
called as soon as the committee TO as
certain the number OF people VINO
/ win make the trip is ready to report
This latter committee has been hahal-
/ capped in its work by lack oi accu'-
ate information as to rates, II y now
in position to go ahead ana ON
basis FAR more reasonable than had
been hoped for.
Mr. Brown advises that he has
been informed by the general OFFICERS
of the santa Fe that the santa re Viii
handle the special train OF Pullman
cars for the trade excursion on
basis of 1-2 cents per nile per
capita, with a minimum Of one hun
drad naseneers. or. in other words
will handle the train If there are ho'
Ito exceed one hundred passengers on
the basis of $3.50 for each mile over
which the train travels, RUNNING
/ rdF mkkIN SPEClAIs AND MAX
INC SUCH STOPS AS THE ENGGR-
! SION MANAGERS MAY DESIRE
This looks like q pretty liberal
proposition and one at which Albu-
oueroue business men should be ready
to jump.
I Mr.. Davies, local superintendent FOR
the Pullman company, has taken up
the question of furnishing a puiie'
car, but had not received his lgufes
last night He will be ready for theln
almost at once and with the santa
Fe's rate in hand very accurate es-
innate of the expense of the trip can
be arrived at
"As / figure IT," writes Mr.. Brown
the distance from Albuquerque lo
Carlsbad and return, via TeNico' IS
9S2 miles, and If there were not eN-
ceeding 100 passengers, the train
would cost YOU S139S. If you return
via the Santa Fe Central from VIII
! lard to our line at Kennedy the
round trip would be 964 miles. | am
VERY sure Mr.. Grimshaw the manager
J Iof the santa Fe Central, will be Will
ing to make the same rate as ours ana
THE train via this route would cost you
S1.446."
The figures given by Mr Brown
Iare, of course, Independent Of the
Pullman charge, whatever that may
be, but he estimates, and his estimate
lis very likely to be right close to the
figure. that if we can get party Of
100 passengers here this would make
the rate "a very reasonable one, as
$4,000 would probably cover all the
2 expenses, including Pullmans.'
This information from Mr.. Brown is
about as plain as could be desired, At
the meeting at which the trade eXcur-
sion was determined on last week, II
q was figured that the probable cost
. would be $40 per passenger. To haV'
@ this estimate cut right in two is GER
e tanly pleasing and win undoubtedly
II result in giving the excursion the big
e gest boost in popular favor it has hat
d thus far.
X George Arnot Of Gross, Kelly &
J. CO., who Is a amember of the commit
a tee on transportation and rates ha
It been advised by the VIII csale grocer
d Of New Mexico, that they desire t
s accompany the excursion as an or
n ganization, provided the business mel
c. of Albuquerque are willing The gro
y GERS are not going with a view to sell
e ing goods. but merely TO see the coun
it trytry and size up possibilities The
W win undoubtedly be given a 'eordia
rs welcome to the fold. The time I
r make the trade excursion go
right now and with the remarkabl
cheap rate offered by the Santa f
there is apparently no reason why
y should not be a great success. Ih
~ rain Dad makes this rate on the basi
4, OF a special Pullman train, when ca
- be stopped wherever the excursionlsl
!, want to stop making It's schedule
run at night and allowing for stoI
lat all the important towns II
the opportunity Of a lifetime for A
to buquerque business men to get inl
nt the new territory ON the cut-off an
sh get acquainted with it and at u
OF same time To see what enterprise al
o. energy have accomplished in Il
ey Pecos valley ana to gather up son
lessons therefrOm.