Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-02-03
MILLION DOLLARS FOR BIG
CLOVIS RAILROAD TERMINALS
Roosevelt County City Already Becoming One of the Import
ant transportation Centers of the West; Present Railway
Revenue Is ST 200 Per Day; intelligent and Systematic
Farming Will Soon Surround City With One of the Great
Agricultural Districts of the Southwest.

stitltu ~ Ug ilt tltNllOH OF inOI0ll
10000 gallon steel tank in the i'm
mediate future.
Storage warehouse for compan,
supplies ana materials, 50x5O0 feet
with reinforced concrete foundation.
and floors and brick and frame super,
structure. with a basement FOR tn,
storage Of several thousand gallon.
of oils for the use of engines, cars
and the various classes OF machinery
costing $4,000.
Machine ana engine shops. building
200N400 feet, Of steel ana pressed
brick construction, with nine engine
stalls for the rebuilding of engines
and general %overhauling work re-
CURED in district shops and which
cannot be lone in division round
houses, and for various machine and
foundry work; this building with the
required machinery will cost $780,
! 900.
Blacksmith shop, 5oxs0 feet, of
concrete and brick construction cost
ing 10000.
Powerhouse, of reinforced concrete
construction throughout, equipped
with a battery of six boilers which
viii aggregate more tina 1000 horse
power: with the electrical machinery
necessary for furnishing the power
to operate all the machinery in the
shops, round house. cOal chutcs, etc,
as well as for furnishing electric light
for the entire railroad yards and all
their buildings; this building with
its machinery and equipment costs
80, eco.
The company has a battery of eight
wells, drilled to a depth of nearly 500
feet. cased and tubcd with steel pipe,
intercepting three separate and dis
tinct veins or strata of water; any
well of h eight furnishes under
test not less than 80 and some of
them as much as 100 gallons per min
ute, an i~neXhaustible supply ana
cXcellent In quality. These eight wells.
equipped with steam pumps. pump
house and derrick for each wen, cost
the company $4,000. The water
from these wells is pipcd into the
storage tanks above mentioned and
from these to the buildings and
standing water crancs throughout the
railroad yards at an additional cost
of 100000.
The ice plant now under cOnstruC-
ion. is Of concrete and brick. and
'%quipped with machinery for IS tons
tally capacity, which Will supply re-
rigeration for all fruit and meat cars
ina other perishablc freight trans
1ortcd through Clovis. and also ice
'A-Aht wal HlAf klA- lnlH pant
when completed (Which will be about
March lst, 1900 will have cost 500
900.
Harvey hotel. which viii be one OF
he largest on the Santa Tc system,
icing Mission in style of architecture,
# reinforced concrete construction.
wo story; this building win be com
llcted about July LIST, 1903, and will
ost sos 600.
a A. 49, t.sf4s.-. -..I
completed or under construction. and
II addition there is proposed to be-
luilt in the Immediate future by the
-ailway nnpany the following add
ional structures, I. e.. $4,000 freight
lepot, $1,000 rest aud l%avatory
'ooms for train ana engine men as
veil as shop employees, a 100000 rail
Dad Y. NJ. CA with bath and read
ng rooms, a $40 600 hospital bphhT7l
ne. All these buildings WIN sun
Try other smaller ones such as are
Usually required at terminals win
doubtless be constructed during the
present year.
An buildings constructed are to be
equippcd with water, electric lights
Ind sewerage which is practically
'ompletcd at this time viii cost 49,
zoe.
In addition to the above noted rail
way improvements, the yards at clio
is contain more miles OF trackagc
han any terminal west OF Newton.
Kansas. aud when completed will bc
.hird in size on the great A.. r. K 5. |
2. railway system. This is necessary
rom the fact hat Clovis win be Il
'ailWay clearing house for all traffic
letween Chicago. the CUR and CALI.
ornia. and win have terminal faciii-
les aggregating a cost OF more than
Il. 900. 600. i
In addition to the Santa Fr COM
'any's interests in Clovis there are :
number of other railroad projects >
considered by other big systems. .
IS wei as by local enterprise. which ,
VII doubtless result in addftinua1 :
abroad facilities and convenience for =
LOWS and her tributary country. ,
1hich viii bc of nu mean Importance /
. her future growth and develop :
lent. When IL Is considered that the +,
eNenucS Of the Santa +, company .
I the present time at Clovis are IN
ard Of Si.2eN per day il can De- seen ,
hat its outlay in improvements IN ,
lows is not all loss and no gain. ~
ut viii pay II a very C%rcditablc in &,
'rest on IT, Investment. n
There IS no place that demonstrates n
clearly that the railroad is the a
1rcrunner Of civilization than In the y
'ction OF country travcrscd by the Il
Nv line of the santa Fc betp cen the III
ate line OF Texas and a connection A.
it'll their FL Paso line at Belcn. y. I,
!. With its building She tide of i'm :,
.iigration was turned hithcrward and n
thousands have since been "a
During int the hitherto unoccupied 10
ildernesS. and with the results of
ieir labor have demonstrated beyond RI,
doubt hat the desert and waste N
cat be made 10 blossom as the q
and yield at the touch Of man n
superahundance for his needs and 2,
r'~pcritN. While the citr of Clovis :,
community is vet an infant ia 81
'ais mas already taken on an air n