Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-04-10
COLMOR GUT OFF
TO CAUSE RUSH
OF SETTLERS
Santa Fe People Expect New
Lines to Bring Increased
Immigration to Kansas and
New Mexico.


How Important Il the construction
OF the new Colmorc cut on OF the
sarta re Is not gsnerally realized IN
A'buquoraue. i,ui twill not Only have
tho effect Of opening up to immediate
etiicment the southwestern part OF
Kansas but it viii In0vi,a5ly bring IN
an increased migration to northern
New Mexico and Increase the traffic
further vest through i'ic state.
The new line. work ON which has
oecn sattcd. will tap nve counties IN
southwest OF Kansas now with rail-
road. The line starts at Dodge city,
Kansas ana passes through Ford.
Gray, Haskell. Grant. stanton. stevens
and Morton counties IN Kansas. Baca
county, Colorado, undi linton county,
New Mexico. The main purpose OF the
line Is TO shorten distace and avoid
steep grades.
For the present. construction con-
tracts will be confined 20 Kansas. A
contract hos been let for the construc-
ton of sixty miles 81 the line out OF
Dodge City through Ford, Gray and
Haskell counties 10 the southwestern
corner Of the latter. Material for this
| construction has been assembled at
Dodge City since January i, but work
has been delayed By the unusually
severe weather. Graders now are at
work and track layers VIII follow
soon.
The construction now under way
VIII bring the line TO a tOwnslte In
Haskell county, where Il II proposed
( a. oil tasflf
be a junction Of two iines--one con-
tinulng southwest through stevens and
Morton counties. the other running
west across Grant and stanton cOun-
ties with these lines completed
there no longer Will be a Kansas
county without "a railroad.
The branch line out of Haskell
county probably VIII stop at Johnson,
the county seat OF stanton county.
I The main line viii c1oss the Cinarron
river and extend on 10 iiug0ton. the
county seat OF stevens county. The
survey for neither line out OF Haskell
has been made. out u Is expected the
work viii start first on the main line.
New settlers Coming.
Santa Re officials are expecting the
construction Of these new lines to
| TURN "A AlNt VI utW atAliNAh AAth AfHoN
southwestern Kansas counties. a large
number Of new settlers already have
found homes since the announcement
OF the Santa FEES project
The new counties are said 20 be
well adapted to agriculture. Their
altitude varies from $500 to 1900
feet. but the soli Is fertile and water
plentiful. In Morton county are flow
| ing wells. which could, but never have
ben employed in Irrigation.
This country thirty years ago was
! a beef country and the pasture OF
buffalo. Small farmers coming in TAX
ing Isolated quarters gradually In
croasing IN numbers made the culti-
walton OF feed necessary, thus giving
rise 20 agriculture. The country Is
renuted 20 be the banner country Of
the world in the production OF broom
corn
| ordinarily the rainfall In this Sec
ton is ample for agricultural pur-
poses. and by practlcing dry farming.
It il said to be possible to raise almost
any crop Flowing wells IN Morton
county go 1900 feet deep. but II Is
proposed TO drill them to sea level and
utilize the water for irrigation, should
Il become necessary santa Fe Off
cials are placing their hopes for the
new section high, and they confidently
believe that In a few years the south
west section OF Kansas viii come In
20 It's own and vie with the older sec
tions OF that great agricultural state
In the production and valuation OF It's
crops and live stock