Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-08-12

senger as well as freight business
and the company could keep a
douhle-track busy right now The
case ~ Albuquerque and Belen is Just
one proof If tho fact that the santa
Fe railway Is doing q great big bust
ness
From tho time the Belen CUTOFF
was started there were gloomy pre-
7 d%ictions thar Albuquerque would De
lcft a cross roads town with an occa-
sional lonely ierkwater train passing
through il. As q Tatter of fact AL
huquerQue is haudie- more railroad
business than ever before. i'm spite Of
the fact that q great volume ~
through traffic is routed now over the
cutoff ~ merely mounts 20 a
/ douhle-track from Kansas to Aihu-
/ qucrQue with both tracks kept so busy
tho rails don't have "a chance Go cool
( Off, The company may talk about
entertainment n So forth. but this
double track proposition doesn't look
Ike retrenchment and to the ordtn-
AIRY observer the business being done
by the company now doesn't look cN-
actly like ia was the dull season.
The doublc-track work SD far. has
been done rather quietly. without
much fuss Hhnut BE-. bus scores 1T
miles of grade have been completed
and hundreds of thousands as dollars
spent already. The jea has gotten a
long start ARID at the present rate
with thousands of men as WorE the
camuan2's estimate of tca years for
the work mev have ottishut the
mark There is some mighty difficult
construction ahead however spec
tally between Williams ana Setsman.
particularly the steep fall from Wiz
liams Is Ash Fork. where Che Zine is
futl ~ short sharp down hiil curves
rock cuts and PERCEPTIONS cmbank-
ments TIE watch the men 81 work on
the new track gives q partial reali@-
ton of The enormous difficulties
which must have been encountered
Ia the carly days when tho Atlantic
and Pacific was first built from the
ca8st to Albuquerque.
"rhe new grade viii De q vast lm-
proYemcnt over the old one s3la 9
Fe man TODAY" For the Tca-
son that some $4,000 q mile is going
into RI III several Thousand dollars
more per mile had been expended on
the original line it would bee much
better. Twenty years has brought
likewise a great improvement ia en-
cheering methods and the money
spent now win go farther than il did
then. 7 nm pretty confident that the
completion 81 the new track from Al
buquerque to the Pacific VIII be the
completion Of the finest pieeo of Tafi-
road building in the west lt is the
biggest enterprise the southwest has
for q quarter Of a century
7 have made the round trip from
New YORK. to Los Angeles about forty
said g mining operator At the
AlVarado last night.T and 7 Nil Say
fer the late Fred Harvey That I have
nothing between here and
Gotham which compares with his
meal service You people down here
make som ~ the HarVcy sandwich
the d"oushnut, but you ought e.
over the road from here ta the
Atlantic 8 feN times "a wear tn appre-
late the food you get along tee santa
Fc. There S nothing like it east TEL
IS really startling u gel oft IN the
81 the desert at Needles and
nm immense hosteiry hkc the Et
sarccs and be treated e. SID abe DELI
aeies 81 the season while the clerk
gently whispers IN y.ur GAR thar there
- mo- cause fnr WORRY for % have all
II nfteeu minutes ieft to finish the
ce cream