. The story of the Santa Fe . ortion of the road was covered byanother mortgage. But the new corporation arranged touse this line, and it was planned to build into St. Louis andextend the road westward through the Territory as fast aspossible. Thus from the old Atlantic & Pacific there evolvedthe St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company with whichcompany the Santa Fe agreed on December 6th, 1879, to co-operate for the purpose of building a line over the 35thparallel to California, under the terms of the original Atlan-tic & Pacific charter of 1866. This alliance was effected for strategic as
. The story of the Santa Fe . ortion of the road was covered byanother mortgage. But the new corporation arranged touse this line, and it was planned to build into St. Louis andextend the road westward through the Territory as fast aspossible. Thus from the old Atlantic & Pacific there evolvedthe St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company with whichcompany the Santa Fe agreed on December 6th, 1879, to co-operate for the purpose of building a line over the 35thparallel to California, under the terms of the original Atlan-tic & Pacific charter of 1866. This alliance was effected for strategic as well as econom-ical reasons. The Santa Fe line it will be observed wasthen nearing Albuquerque; while the St. Louis & San Fran-cisco which as yet only reached Vinita, Indian Territory, hadpassed under the control of a group of financiers whoplanned to build their road first to Wichita, Kansas. Bothcompanies were bent upon constructing or getting controlof a line to the Pacific Coast. The Santa Fe had its road. An Outlet to the Pacific 217 practically completed from Wichita to Albuquerque. TheSt. Louis & San Francisco would soon extend its line to Wich-ita, and it contemplated building from Pacific City intoSt. Louis at an early date. The latter company had suc-ceeded to the Atlantic & Pacific land grant and franchisesconferred by the Federal charter of 1866. Thus the twocompanies decided to combine their resources and cooperatein building a main line from Albuequerque to new road which would be known as the Western Divisionof the Atlantic & Pacific was to be constructed under theoriginal Atlantic & Pacific charter. The project when re-alized would give a new and continuous railroad route fromthe Mississippi river to the Pacific Coast. January 31st, 1880, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Feand the St. Louis & San Francisco Companies entered intotwo agreements for the prosecution of this enterprise. Bythe terms of the first, which was preliminary to the seco
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