The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-12-30
On To MOntezuma

The question of the completion of the
Montezuma and Western railroad by the
driving of the bore through the Contin-
ential Divide will mean much to Idaho
Springs. 1t will mean a thru short and
dirsct lin from Denve to Leadville thus
increase the train service. 1t will mean
that the large ore deposits in Summit
County will find q milling morket in
in this city of large mills. The follow
ing interesting article gives the leading
facts
Negotiations have practically been
completed by Denver promoters for the
financing of a new narrow guage rail-
way PROJECT from Waldorf. at the base
of Mt. McClelland, to Keystone. which
is destined ultimately to form the link
! in a new rail route connecting Denver
with Lead>ilIe and reducing the time
between the two cities by one half.
Construction work, which has alreacy
been started, is being done by the Ar
gentine Con. Co., former owners OF the
Argentine Central Railway. The new
line is to be known as the Mortezuma
& Western ,ilroad.
A. j. Woodruff, secretary of the CO.
mpany who has been in the East siEce
last summer, arranging for the necess-
ary financial assistance to push the pro-
| ject, is expected to return to Denves in
few days. The last report received
from him was that he was successful
for it in his mission.
The Montezuma & Western will be
seventeen miles long and will open up
a valuable mineral region. The eastern
terminus will be at Waldorf where it
will connect with the Argentine Cen
tral. A mile and half of track west
of Waldorf has already been laid and
with the return of Mr. Woodruff. it is
expected that the finishing work oh
tunnel mile long will be started.
The bore i6xl4 feet has already been
completed for distance of $500 feet.
1t will pass through Mount Mcclellan
near Argentine pass
The road will tap the town of Monte
suma ten miles west of Waldorf. The
western terminus will be at Keystone,
where connections can be made either
wi9h the Denver & Rio Grande or the
Colorado & Southern into Leadville.
The present plan of the promoters is
to have through connections from Den
yer to Leadvile via Silver Plume and
Dillon in the event that ths Colorado
& Southern is permitted by the district
court to abandon its service on the
Breckenridge branch. Should the
Colorado & Southern cease operating
the Breckenridge line arrangements
will probably be made with that road
whereby the Montezuma & Western
will run it's trains from Dillon into
Breckenridge.
The road when completed will repre-
sent an investment of approximately
$500, 900 About $850,000 has already
been spent in poring the tunnel. Work
on the balance of the construction work
will be begun in the spring.
Mr. Woodruff and his associates, it
is understood are planning to buy in
the Argentine entral railway which
is now in the hands of a receiver at
court sale which it is expected will be
held next month.
The road at present is indebted to
bondholders in the sum of $685. 600 A
reorganization will be effected in the
company with this obligation liquidat-
ed, and operations will be started IN
the spring c. M. Heberton, land
agent for the Union and Southern Pa
cifc railroads was recently appointed
chief executive of the Argentine Cen
trail by court order. James @. New