El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-25
Stopover Privileges Here Are Granted
On Ali the Transcontinenta1 Roads
Texas and Pacific Completes $4,000 Depot During 1912 and
G. H,& S. A. Will Erect Costly Office Buding--Over
A Million People A Year Pass Through Ell Paso and
All May Now Stop Over For Period of 10 Days

~ URING 1912. the Ell Paso & South
western railroad completed its
- extension from Benson, Ariz-, to
Tucson. the metropolis of Arizona, and
thus put FL Paso in connection with
that city by a second rail line. The
same road also started work on a line
from Lewis Springs to Fort Huachucai
giving FL Paso direct railroad connec-
ton with the largest military post in
Arizona
This was the most important railroad
work Of the year. to FL PaSO, although
a number of other features occurred
that are very valuable to the city, IN
Guiding the construction OF new 49,
eco depot by the Texas x Pacific, the
extension Of the To-day stOpOver priv
iIege on through tickets to include all
railroads entering the city; a great
reduction in freight rates to a NUMBER
of points in the FL PasO territory, and
the granting of Pullman stopoVeIs
here
Railroads have made and unmade
towns at their will In FL PaSO they
have willed to make the city greater
each year. This they have done by
contributing their share toward the
industrial development by erecting new
buildings. laying new tracks inaugur-
ating better service. both passenger
and freight, and helping in their own
big way to make the city grow.
New t. & p. station
During the year 1912 the Texas &
Pacific railroad company built a new
freight station and loading platform
800 feet long at q cost Of $4,000, the
platform being $50 feet long and the
building so. Both brick and steel were
used in the construction Of this new
building, on the corner Of First and
Ochoa streets. In addition. new tracks
were run for the use of warehouses IN
that section This company during
1913 will lay several hundred feet OF
track for warehouses that are TO be
erected along its line, two large liquor
firms planning these
improvements by G. II.
The Galveston. Harrisburg & San An
tonic railroad, the Texas division OF
the Southern Pacific system, has not
been idle during the past year This
company has installed the largest turn
table in the west in its yards 1t IS
Of 100 tons capacity and is operated
by electricity. It cost $4,000 There
are but few Of these in operation in
the world, and this is one Of the larg-
est.
It built new yards for coach clean
ing purposes. and installed a heating
plant to furnish heat and compressed
air for its own cars west of the union
station yards, this innovation neees-
stating an outlay Of $4,000
Storm Sewer; New Office Building
A storm sewer, to carry flood waters
away from Oregon street along this
cOmpany'S right of way and west be-
yond the union station, was built at a
cost OF $13, 600. It paved west Main
street at a cost of $4,000 and heightened
all sidings on the FL PasO division to
1000 feet.
But bigger things are planned. by
this road for 1913. The present office
building between Kansas and Stanton
streets is not OF sufficient size to &C
all the office force. There
fore, it is planned to build new office
building in that section, and it is ex-
pected that work will be started on
this before the end Of 1913 This will
cost $4,000 or more. The plans are
already drawn
This is not all A 5O-foot track
scale 100 feet long. is being planned
for the yards and it is proposed to /
double track the line eastward as far !
as the station at Alfalfa, in the lower 1
valley, and westward as far as Rio 1
Grande, an undertaking which viii /
cause the outlay Of a big sum in the /
event that this is carried out, storage 1
yards VIII be installed at both of these 1
points
It is also planned to enlarge the I
present freight station at Campbell /
street by the construction Of a two |
story extension of brick. to cost at /
least $4,000.
Railway Extensions
The FL PasO & Southwestern system, /
while it has not been spending much 4
money in FL Paso. has been doing much !
for this city in the development of its 4
line The extension from Faifbank to ]
Tucson was completed, a distance Of I
Sc miles, and the Lewis Springs Fort /
Huachuca branch has been started, a /