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The Santa Fe Ring was an informal group of powerful politicians, attorneys, and land speculators in territorial New Mexico from 1865 until 1912. The Ring was composed of newly-arrived Anglo Americans and opportunistic Hispanics from long-resident and prominent families in New Mexico. Acquiring wealth, both groups realized, lay in owning or ...
Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway. Rebuilt numerous times, inherited by BNSF in 1995, donated in serviceable condition 1999. Restored to as-built condition 2012-2018 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe 560 FM H-12-44: Diesel-Electric Locomotive Fairbanks-Morse: 1957 Operational Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Metal Processing Inc.
Ada McPherson Morley in 1882. Ada McPherson Morley (August 26, 1852 – December 9, 1917) was an American author, suffragist and rancher. Early in her time in New Mexico, she and her husband edited a newspaper and took on the Santa Fe Ring both in print and in business matters.
The California Southern Railroad was a subsidiary railroad of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe) in Southern California. It was organized July 10, 1880, and chartered on October 23, 1880, to build a rail connection between what has become the city of Barstow and San Diego, California .
The Barstow Harvey House, also known as Harvey House Railroad Depot and Barstow station, is a historic building in Barstow, California.Originally built in 1911 as Casa del Desierto, a Harvey House hotel and Santa Fe Railroad depot, it currently serves as an Amtrak station and government building housing city offices, the Barstow Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center, and two museums.
The Santa Fe Ring of lawyers and politicians, often in league with the Surveyors General, abused the adjudication system for their own benefit. [ 24 ] Among Catron's acquisitions was the 600,000 acres (2,400 km 2 ) Tierra Amarilla Land Grant .
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway opened its first Fullerton station in 1888. [7]The station has three historic depots on site: one built in 1923 by the Union Pacific Railroad, [8] another built in 1930 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, [7] [9] and the third used by the Pacific Electric starting in 1918.
The business saw success mainly due to there being no competition. As a member of the Republican Party political machine known as the Santa Fe Ring, Murphy also wielded considerable power over law enforcement, as Lincoln County Sheriff William J. Brady lived on a cattle ranch that he had purchased using money borrowed from Murphy and Dolan's bank.