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Show WILL BUILD A NEW LINE TO GALVESTON SAN FRANCI3CO. Oct. ll.-Presldent E. P. Ripley of the Santa Fe has dscided to build a new piece of. road, -which will give San Francisco another direct rail connection connec-tion with Galveston, Tex. He has Just Incorporated the Gulf. Santa Fe & North? western railway. The company Just incorporated in-corporated is to build 350 miles of road from Brownwood northwest to Texlco on the Texas and New Mexico boundary. Texico is a point on the north and south Pecos valley line of the Santa Fe. From Texlco to Rio Puerco on the Santa Fe and California overland line, thirty miles west of Albuquerque, the distance dis-tance Is 275 miles, and a road is being built there by the Eastern New Mexico railway, a Santa Fe company. By means of the new piece of road from Rio Puerco to Texlco and thence north over the Pecos valley line, the Santa Fe wtll have a second and shorter overland line to California. |