Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-05-31
HARRINGTON ROAD
TAKES ACTIVE
SHAPE NOW
Executive Committee Cores
ponds With Phelps.Dodqe
Interests and Gets Right of
Way, Is Report.

PENNINGTON IS ~. MAY .I whIc
It'i' s being git,n out fuf p.uuaa.
ton th. work ~ th, executive come
utt,c "f tho Pennington. NHu4u,'-
Uuo Guli railroad is beginning 90
tuN, active shape. and tho tro-p,rt8
ior railroad from Pennington to The
s'ath srrm hrghtrr non than ever
NuDu th, o1u item h4t has been
gi',u uut E that after much viz,
luIIuE ana correspondence the Dou-
HIttu, bias secured maps. prunl. and
data of surs,1 made isum Farm
.uttuu south only % fcW yruts ago hi
% Tt road DHWpsnt uat was at that
fu, seriously contemplating build
.ur iuip 'his cuIutr, hu has changed
30. plans VIII, 10 Is not given out
SHAT railroad this is. 90 is believed
Peg thus, who hav, been E,Dp.us in
CLOSE touch that /, is th, go raso q
puruuVn Railroad cpmpnu, This
company Nas believed 10 hgy, been
backed hy the Phelps budE. inter
'stF u Is understood mat the Farm
inEtuu. Albuquerque q Gulf has Soc
cured ana has taken over part of
tHc right uf way held bS ia, other
COMPANY
Correspondence received by lnca
mon from some investors ia the
southern part OF Arizona. mon who
are in rols' touch with railroad mat
tors. indicates that they nave some
rather good Information along tho
lincs OF railroad news just what IL
~ thrN do not say Ia their letters. but
these men viii De- here personally
within short time and u may be
possible that there win bo some rail
read news obtaiuablc al that time. IN
the meantime there are TWO rumors
guing around one h that thcS have
some Information about the southern
Pacific ana another Is that they feel
that the Pennington. Albuquerque n
Guif rs sure go anc want to get In
on the ground floor
chief Engineer Han has checked up
The first two ten-milc sections OF TIA,
HIrycN the Huntington lin. promot-
trs have secured According to MIR
Han the survey as evidenced la pro-
file and alignment maps shows
grade uf much less than ! per cent
up the canyon Gallcgos, with maxi
mum curvature 81 only three degrees
THIS would mean an ideal line ana
the expense of building would be- COM
par1tivclN small
Thr cxccutiv, force. $50 $50, ar, in
iwmod hav, two - three opportu-
utl,s in plac, their bonds uppu show
ins the necessary tonnage Th"t are
busy gathering tonnage data This ~
~ big job and they are doing il care
iuiiy ana In most systematic way,
aud when thc> make their report the,
VIII have matters ~ such shape there
VIII b, no question on the part of the
Investing public but that the line Wiz
pay from the beginning Certain rail
road interests are trying Co discour-
1co the building 81 the road. say ing
III, proposed line would not d, q paw
Ing Investment for many years 10
come The officers uf the company
Urc much encouraged however by IN,
way the many details are WORKING out
Hud n Is only "A matter uf time until
th'} Viii have some good railroad
r'vF for san Juan county The gath
sriue of tonnage data L. quito AN iu-
'r"ut. task Thcy must flnd uut Just
how much coal, coke ana timber can
w. delivered daily along IA, line aud
el~o tiud q market for these prod Icts
1hcy must make ronsprNlii,, ,.,u-
mate of the products of tho farming
scctlous at present aud for tho next
few years There az, endless details
o. hr looked into ana great deal eff
work b. attached to t.
II be- understood that the plans arc
~ include h,sidca IN, main linz, "a
hn' from Torrance un the Rock ISL
emo 90 Roswell n their pruJ,ct