Selections From The Splinters - Volume 19
FROM THE TERMINUS OF
ATCHISON TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILROAD
TO GRANADA, 10.83 MILES
BUILT BY COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO RAILROAD COMPANY
DURING THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1873
This railroad was incorporated on July 5, 1873, and from its charter the following facts have been abstracted:
ARTICLE 2.
This corporation is formed for the purpose of building and operating a railroad, and telegraph line form the present Western terminus of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R.R., at the Western boundary of the State of Kansas, thence in a Westerly and a South Westerly direction, through the Counties of Bent and Las Animas in Colorado territory to Santa Fe and Albuquerque in the territory of New Mexico and also a road form the most suitable point on the said line through the Counties of Bent and Las Animas to Trinidad and also a road to Pueblo, all in Colorado Territory.
THE CORPORATORS
| Jos Nickerson | Alden Speare |
| B P Cheney | O W Peabody |
| I T Burr | J S Nickerson |
| Chas W Pierce | Geo B Wilbur |
| Thos Nickerson | A B Laurie |
| Henry Strong |
The Interstate Commerce Commission, in its Valuation report No 127, states the following.
The Colorado and New Mexico Railroad Company was incorporated July 5, 1873, in the Territory of Colorado. No accounting records of the company were obtained. Therefore, no information can be given from its accounts regarding its financial dealings, corporate operations, or investments. However certain data given below were obtained from its minute book. I was controlled on September 29, 1875, the date of consolidation, by the officials of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail Road Company through ownership of a majority of its capital stock. On the other hand, the records reviewed do not indicate that this company controlled any other common-carrier corporations.
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The property was operated under lease by the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Rail Road from the date it was placed in operation ti the date of consolidationn. The railroad consisted of 10.83 miles of single - track standard - gauge steam railroad, extending from a connection with the road of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Rail Road Company at the Colorado - Kansas State line to Granada, Colo., which had been acquired by construction in 1873.
This railraod, along with other lines, was consolidated on September 29, 1875, into The Pueblo and Arkansas Valley Railroad Company II.
Page 57 and paart of page 58 transcribed in altered form for the net by Larry Green
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