Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-06-08
NEW RAILROAD PUTS
CLOVIS To THE
FRONT
WORK ON EXTENSION 10
COLEMAN UNDER WAY
Ambitious YoungSter Expects
Population of 5000 by
Christmas Many New
Buildings Under Way }c
Celebrate Glorious Fourth


Ispeeial Correspondence 10 Moruing Journal
Clovis. \. NJ, June CLOVIS was
the recipient of glad tidings saturday
that shook her from foundation to
pinnacle. This was the news that the
contract for that portion of the new
Santa Zee road from clovis to Gal
weston, beginning at Clovis and cX-
tending to Coleman. Texas, had been
let to the c. II. Sharp Construction
co. of Kansas City, and work would
begin upon this road within sixty
DAYS. 1t has been generally under
stood in Clovis for the past half year
that when the road was built Clovis
would be the terminal, and here It
would connect with the main lines
from the northeast to the Pacific
coast. yet it was claimed by many of
the towns between Amarillo ana this
point that each would be the n to
receive the new road n there the
junction would be effected. In talk
ing with 4 prominent railroad man
here today. a representative Of the
Morning Journal was told that in all
DlOilttUlillltS lllt WI Oh ZIG PVA
tion of the road from Coleman to
Clovis. on which nearly two million
dollars will be expended, viii be I'M
der way before the end of the SUM
mer.
A great deal of the work on the
line south of Coleman and between
that point and Lubbock. Texas, which
viii be the first regular division out
Of Clovis, has already been practl-
cally completed and the construction
people are rushing the work with
all possible haste.
When this road is once completed
and in operation, Clovis Will then DC
a main division ana shop point for
two trans-continental lines OF ran
road. 1t is said that this new road is
going to be one of the most perfectly
equipped roads of the system II W.T.
~ ours be the main line of the
santa re from the Pacific to the Gulf
of Mexico.
Many New Buildings Under Way.
A deal was closed Saturday where
i, DR.. p. Worley came in possessloi
of twenty-five front feet on Man
! street lust north of the First Natiora
! bank building and with e. y Le'pS
will erect at once a fifty foot. Two
story marble front building. Mr.. LeepA
owns the lot next to the one p~urchase'
by DR.. Worley. I. II. Olson. who ~
! with the Santa Fc at Chicago, arrived
in the city last Saturday to arrang
the details and let the contract toi
his two-story fifty-foot building q
the corner of Monroe aud Main streets
Bert II. Rogers, of Oaltha,
| who is a heavy investor in Clovis prop
| crtv. viii begin within the next tel
daNs. a splendid brick structure on
! North Main street above the Mabry'
| oliver company office. and the esca
, waiting for the two-story pressed brlef
nf Mr.. MCLEAN which Will be stu
/ further up on Main street IS now un
der way and the building will b" com
nlcfod within sixty days. Clovis ha'
an a-unaranccs of being abe to- r"acl
the five thousand population marx D
Christmas and then she VII b" oni'
iva and onc-hulf years old h en-
has no doubt established a new rec
ora II, its wonderful growth, mt onl'
for New Mexico. but for the cntir'
southwest