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Show . s ) T I I C, R. I A P. R. R kz-x in- J iiunry l.t ' l: ' '' ,r'at rl U I ? '',!r,,!v!''.'.r-!"e''..',.' 'n 'to 'l I" rr-o. 1 J . ex, Thla line, lu . ni.l . ( tl"i) v. I'.l th X V Hotithorn I'ucilic slid Hie M. l an Cn- Isf tral rallroa.-.s. V.III give tho Hock ? island the shortest lino both to Routh. i' J ern California and the City of Mexico. ) nnd make It a dangeroua cimp'tltor of tha Santa Fe. It took Just one year to jjQ' construct the ."16 miles of the new ex-tension ex-tension fiom Liberal. Kan., to L'l l'aso, II Tex. For tho purpose of complying 1 with the Texas law that every railroad 1 within thst stal- shall have state oper- j atlng hGadqunrters and also for general construction facilities and convenience, i the new road as placed under th ehartera of live difTerriit railroad corporation, cor-poration, vii.: The Chicago, Hnrk Island a 1'aclllc proper, the Chicago, Hock Island t Mexico. Hie Chicago, Hock Island AY F.I l'aso. Ihe Hock Island & El l'ano. and the Kl IVvo ft North-eaatern. North-eaatern. The road from Liberal to Hanta Rosa, N. M.. a distance of 179 miles, wss placed under direct Hock Island construction, with J. II. Conlen, vie president of tho Chicago. Hock Island ft Mexico, as Chief Lnglnser and Uenernl Manager, while from Ran- f ta Itosa to Carrlsoto, a distance of 180 nillis, th construction work wns given f to the El I'sso A Northeastern, which already bad a constructed line from El Paso to Csrrnoio. The rosd from Lib- y eral to Csrrlioto will be equipped with t eighty-pound steel rails, onk or pitch pin ties, and modern ballasting. Ds- pot, (Id track, snitches, station I house, yardlngs, water tanks, and Western Vnlon telegraph Hues hav all j kept par with actual road building, and when the road Is opened by th V first ot next year It will be In as perfect - J condition any ot Ih line of th i Rock Island system that have been Id . "" 1 senlr for years. In connection Willi I ' Ih Hock Island-El Paso line I th 1 ' now thirty-mile railroad which I ta I develop the Immense Dawson coal I ' fields, owned by the Hock Iblntid, on ! the lleaublcn nn.l Mlnimln grant, In th ' northern pnrt of Colfax county, N. M, ' This road will leave Ihe main Hock Island rails nt or near Liberal station, ' twenty miles southwest nf the Canadian Cana-dian river croralng. nnd run through: i th New Mexl. i n counilcs of San Ml- .-Ls. guel. Mora nn.i Colf.tx. This brnuch " will be completed by May 15. I0n2. Th f coal Is lo fo d the soiitlieaatern por- f Hon of tho Hock Islutid-EI 1'itio line. ' and probably will largely supply th Kouthcrn I'ac'lb: railroad, In addition f- . to a heavy rioiuchtlc custom In that ' I nation of the country. Tho comple- ( Hon of the El I'usu linn will give th j Hock Island a route of 2-': miles short- -1 i er between Knnnn City and El l'aso M than that of tho Fnnta Ke b.tween th - 7 snm points, together with a saving i nt fifteen hour of time, tho Latter fact f I being largoly duo to the favorabl f alignment and maximum 1 per cent l. grade of the new Hock Inland line, la connection with the Houtbern Pacino, ,'l th Itock Island will have a shorter (( line from Chicago to Los Angeles than I will the Santa Fo. The constriirtloa , i cost of the Itock Island-El Paso tin - ' V will approximate I7,0u0.000. an average ff ot about llj.OOU per mils. Cklcagd I Trlbun. |
