Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1920-04-22
NORTH AND SOUTH
RED LINE ROAD

A delegation from the Estancia
Chamber of Commerce went to San,
ia Fe the first of the week to in.
terview the State Highway Commits
sion with the object of getting the
north and south road from Willard
through Estancia, Mcintosh and
Moriarty to Santa Fe made a red
line road, and they came home with
the bacon. The delegation consist
ed of Willie Elgin, H. B. Johnson.
H. G. Williams, Neal Jenson, E. L.
Garvin, Rev. R. E. Farley, Ira l..
Ludwick and j. B. Fish.
A red line road is state and
national road, must conform to the
requirements Of the government as
to construction, and will be built
and maintained by the state and
national governments.
A delegation from the Santa Fe
Chamber of Commerce also was be-
fore the Highway Commission at
the same time, inasmuch as the
value of the road would be greatly
lessened if the section lying within
Santa Fe county should not be made
a good road also. Accordingly the
Highway Commission required that
Santa Fe county should put the
road in good shape from the Tor
rance county line to Santa Fe be-
fore thatasection of the road was
declared red line road.
The joint Chamber of Commerce
delegations then hunted up two of
the Santa Fe County Commission.
ers, who agreed that they would at
once work the road from the top
of Clarks hill to Galisteo, the bal.
ance of the road being now in good
shape.
Work has already been COM
menced on. surfacing the road from
the Santa Fe county line to Will
lard. 1t is understood that about
$4,000 is available for work on
this section of the road, which
ought to make it first class.
The result of this action of the
State Highway Commission will be
that all travel from the lower Pecos
valley to Santa Fe will be over this |
road.
From Lamy to Santa Fe the road
is we'll constructed state road and
is in good shape at the present
time. From Lamy to Galisteo the
road is good except for a few short
places which will be easily made
good at no great cost. From the top
of Clarks hill to the Torrance county
line it is fine country road with
no bad places, and will be easily
made into first class road.
The Santa Fe New Mexican dis. !,
courses as follows about this phase
of the meeting of the State High
way Commission:
"The state highway commission
will add state road No. Al, from
Willard north to the Santa Fe coun-
ty line, to its redline system and
maintain it. On condition that San.
ia Fe county puts the road from
the Torrance county line into Santa
Fe into good shape the state high.
way commission will also maintain
this section. This was the conclu- !
sion reached at the session of the
commission this morning after the
matter had been presented to the
commission by strong delegations
from Torrance and Santa Fe coun,
ties.
"The road from Willard north
through the Estancia valley has
been graded and drainage structures
placed, only limited amount of |
work remaining to be completed.
This road serves community that |
is increasing as the valley is being
settled. The people there are anx-
ious to connect up with the state
capital. 1t was also stated that the I
state road No. 2, now used by the
Pecos valley people into Santa Fe,
runs east Of the valley through an
unsettled country. 1t appears that
it will be advantageous to both the |
Estancia valley and the Pecos val
ley to divert the travel from road |
No. 2 to the road through Estancia
valley.
ut was explained that 1t would |
require comparatively little work to
make the road from the Torrance
county line into Santa Fe good. |
About seven miles needs to be grad
ed in the Clark section to the TOP
of the hill near Williams. State
Engineer Leslie A. Gillett would |
loan the big Holt tractor and other
equipment to get this section grad
ed.
"Col. r. E. Twitchell, president
Of the Chamber Of Commerce, stat
ed that this matter would be taken
up with the county commissioners
and that Santa Fe county no doubt
would meet the Estancia valley peo-
pie at the county line.
"The following were present from
Torrance county: Willie Elgin, H.
B. Johnson, H. c. Williams, Neal
Jenson, E. L. Garvin, Rev. R. E.
Farley, Ira L. Ludwick and ]. B..
Fish. Santa Fe was strongly repre-
sented. Among those present were
Col. R. E. Twitchell, president of
the Chamber of Commerce; Lieut..
Gov. B. F. Pankey, C. S. Kennedy
secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce; c. G. Mardorf, DR.. F. E.
Mera, Paul A. F. Walter, R. W.
Lynn, E. L. Stafford and many 9th
er business men and citizens."'