Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-27

Northern Pacific. To get the in
formation for this volume he travel
ed from St. Paul to Seattle In a
special motor car which ran on the
rails on orders like any train, except
that it was given the privilege of
holding up other trains whenever
necessary.
Tramped for Two Summers
The first book was such a success
that it was followed by three others,
and now by a fourth. Objects and
features Of interest r so numerous
along the line Of the Denver & Rio
Grande that Mr.. Campbell did not
even avail himself of the compare
lively ~leisurely progress of a rail-
road motor car, but in order to miss
nothing along the route he tramped
on foot over 500 of the most inter-
esting miles of it, taking two sum-
mers for this work.
OF the guidebook itself the chief
feature is the series of detailed
route maps which are more accurate,
the survey contends, than any ever
prepared for g~uidebooks before.
These maps are in sections, each
showing a hundred miles or so of
the route, and each II is tipped in
to the book so that it folds out be-
yond the edges of the pages. The
text describing the country along the
route of the section proceeds each
map, so that the traveller can sit in
the Pullman and follow the route on
the map and at the same time read
the pages descriptive of what he
sees
Now the Denver & Rio Grande, to
the inquisitive traveller, is a good
5za 80 zn anfonna both In tie nan6
for it does not come within several
hundred miles of the Rio Grande,
and in it's route, for it connects Dem
yer with Salt Lake City, which Is
northwest of Denver, but in going to
Salt Lake City it travels first 120
miles southeast to Pueblo, then
turns abruptly to the north Of west
for about 100 miles, and then turn
ing northward goes another hun
dred miles, and then turning north
ward goes another hundred miles to
regain the latitude of Denver before
heading west on the direct route to
Utah. More than one traveller must
have assured himself idly that such
a route was forced by h necessities
of mountain railroad-building. yet a
second would tell anybody that the
Denver & Rio Grande might have
crossed the Rockies due west of
Denver, because today several rail-
road lines do cross there.
To explain the naming and rout-
ing of this railroad Mr.. Campbell
found 1t necessary to tell the early
history of this railroad. It started
| out with every intention in the world
of reaching the river whose name 1t
| still bears and eventually of going on
to Mexico City on the route now
occupied by the Mexican National
Railway. This 1t was prevented
from doing by the Santa Fe in q
railroad war which convulsed Colo
RADIO in the 70is and involved not
only injunctions and other court
\ proceedings. but also armed oppo'
| sition, battles, and dozens Of casual
ties. When the war ended the Den
yer & Rio Grande found itself build
had not entered into its calculations
Built q Mile a Day
General William j. Palmer, a for
mer Pennsylvania Railroad man who
had won a brigadier-generalship In
/ the Civil War, was the genius of the
| Denver & Rio Grande. AS a builder
| for the Kansas Pacific Railroad, he
came into Denver in 1870 at the
head of a construction force which
had laid down $50 miles of trackage
in that many days. He was a true
empire builder. Other railroad pio-
peers were obsessed with the trans
] continental idea. The Union Pacific
had already crossed the mountains
on The easy grades to the north.
But. whether General Palmer doubt
ed the possibility of east to west con.
s~truction through the more rugged
mountains of Colorado, his provision
showed him a great north and south
along the eastern hem of the noun
tains with branch feeders into ths
mountain mining regions, the line
also to tap and lay tribute upon sucf
transcontinentaI lines as might bt
built south of Denver.
His courage enlisted capital-nont
too much Of it-and the Denver &
/ Rio Grande was incorporated. IL
the summer of 1871 General Palmer
set forth from Denver to connec'
that settlement with Ell Paso b.
steel. Eleven months later fount
him at Pueblo, where he heard dis
ouieting rumors Of a new railroa,
organization, the Santa Fe, whicl
was much more strongly capitalize
than his own organization and whicl
Twas coming up the Arkansas Rive