El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-20
GET RIGHT0FWAY
FOR ELECTRIC LINE
Cloudcroft Business Men
Confer With Artesia
Commercial Club.
By Hop"

AlamOgOrdo, N M, Jan. 20.-An-
other advanced step has been taken
towards getting an electric line of
railway from CloudcrOft eastward to
Artesia in the PecOs valley. This
movement was inaugurated from the
ClOudcrOft end of the line some
months since, but the movement has
been awaiting Developments by the
promoters in the meantime. During
the week a party of the business men
of CIOudcrOft went into the PecOs
valley to confer with the promoters
of the line and the matter has been
revived with much more enthusiasm
than has ever before characterized
the movement.
The Cloudcroft party consisted Of
J. c. Jones, of this city, who is an ex-
tensive property holder in the noun
tains adjacent to the line; C. S. Wood,
Of the AlamOgOrdO Lumber Co.; c. +.
Knight, a business man of ClOudcroft;
L. A Tatum, president Of the Cloud
croft commercial club; James B. York,
business man Of ClOudcrOfts and Scott
3. Williams, postmaster and real es-
tate man of the summit city. This
party divided in sections and secured
rightOfway for the proposed line
down this canyon to the OterO county
line, and on to Elk in Chaves county.
From Elk, the party went on to Hope
where they We're Joined by business
men of that place, who accompanied
them to Artesia.
At Artesia they met the promoters
of the line, Messrs. c. c. Carroll,
president of the First National bank
OF Springfield, Illinois; Harold Lee,
an attorney of Kansas City, and Viii
liam Hand, an electrical engineer and
manager of the General Electric COM
pany's offices at Kansas City With
these promoters, they met both the
commercial club and business men Of
Artesia.
When the meeting was arranged at
ArteSia the question Of rightofWay
between Artesia and Hope had been
cleared Up, but the promoters found
that all the rightOfWay had not been
secured The promoters, however,
made q proposition to the business
men of Hope and Artesia regarding
the rlghtotway. which already has
been graded between these two points,
and on this proposition the promoters
were assured that everything could
be worked out satisfactorily, so that
the proposition could be accepted
While the party did not go on to
Roswell, the members were assured by
the commercial organization Of that
place that the r1gntOfWay between
that city and Artesia would be ready
when needed.
Have Il Months to Begin Work.
Contracts on the rightOfWay from
Cloudcroft to the Otero county line
give the promoters 70 months in
which to begin construction and a
operation of the line. The promoters
affirm that they can make a definite
statement as to the beginning of con-
structiOn as soon as the question Of
the rightofway of the entire line
from Roswell to CloudcrOft is fully
settled.
The people of Cloudcroft have the
assurance of the FL PasO and South
western railway and the ClOudcrOft
directory that the rightOfway will be
given through the reservation on the
summit, as well as necessary terfni-
nails r. f. Balthis, superintendent of
the Alamo Forest Reserve, has also
assured the committee that he will
do everything possible to assist the
movement as far as the lands and
rightOfway through the reserve is
concerned.
Opens Up Fine.
The section of OterO county from
CloudcrOft down the canyon along this
proposed line is as yet undevelOped
on account of the lack of transpOrta-
ton facilities. The building of this
line will therefore open a splendid
section for grain, truck and fruit that
viii be of inCalculable value to this
part of the country. 1t will also pro-
vide direct communication between
the PeCOs valley and FL PasO and
will bring all of New Mexico cOun-
try to FL PasO as a great distributing
point