#railroad #atsf #new_mexico #san_juan #baseball #brewing #kansas_pacific #kit_carson ## Can Talk Build Railroads, pg. 2 We are not of those who believe it. Talk is a great leaverage in all public movements, intended to benefit particular localities and we do not doubt that town meetings and a few expressions of sentiment on the part of citizens favoring a railroad to their place will often bring the subject in a new light before the directors of a railroad company and even do some good where no money or bonds are voted to aid its construction. But that a railroad corporation will build to a town of no importance, where there are no other inducements than mere desire on the part of its citizens to enjoy railroad facilities, is an idea only entertained by those of shallow mind, who know but little of the operations of capital in any branch of investment. It is a prominent desire in the minds of our citizens and business men to interest railroad companies in our vicinity to the end that we may have the advantage of cheaper and quicker transportation to our town and a satisfactory means of shipping wool, cattle hides and pelts, coal and coke to their legitimate market centres, we have had and still have reasonable prospect of railroad communication within the present year, but whether talk will advance our opportunities outside of the advertising of our resources and the advantage they offer for the investment of capital and supplying a living trade to any road that may build to us is a matter of doubt in our mind. If our citizens choose to make prominent in every possible way the advantages we possess of position and resources to secure the trade of New Mexico and the San Juan to any railroad company that will build here, they are doing all that is possible in our opinion to secure the needed railroad facilities to Trinidad. ## pg. 2 The Trinidad Enterprise and Chronicle contends that the A.T.&S.F.R.R is bound to build to that town. It can not see how the road can get any place without going by way of Trinidad. - Prospector. Our citizens certainly have assurances that the A.T.&S.F.R.R intends building here at an early day. We have not yet gone so far as to express an opinion ascribed to us by the prospector, that the Railroads east of us cannot "get any where" without going via Trinidad, but we will venture to predict that when our neighbors of the San Juan country get their R. R., or even a feasible wagon road, it will be build from this place. ## pg. 3 All lovers of mashed noses, broken fingers and caved in heads, will meet on the base ball grounds tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon. Important business is the word. Arrangements will there be made to play a match game on the Fifth of July. Come and enlist before you are drafter and you won't feel half so bad if you get killed outright. --- Quite a pleasant time was had down at the Trinidad Brewery last Saturday night. Martin Kirchmer had that Free Lunch and Buck Beer so long talked about. The jolly fellows were all there - the lunch was enjoyed, the beer foamed up high and was good, and everybody drank hearty. Do it some more Martin and we'll come down again. --- Oh, yes! Oh, yes! Oh, yes! As court has now adjourned until tomorrow morning at nine o'clock, you will all repair to the Palace Billiard Hall and partake of some of that Denver beer, ice cold and just the thing to quench your thirst or stimulate your brain to work out new glories on the coming day. --- Down comes the mallet - and you'll always find fresh Denver beer on tap at the "Palace." --- Hear ye! Hear ye! Twenty kegs of Bates' Denver Beer just received at the Palace Billiard Hall. --- Kansas Pacific Railway! Citizens of Trinidad and vicinity: - This great all rail route is the only line from Las Animas to Denver and all points in the States. Trains run daily. Pullman cars from Kit Carson east and west on all trains. Trough tickets and baggage checks to all points. We can recommend it as sure, safe and prompt. It makes connections in Union Depots at the Missouri river, and there are no disagreeable changes of cars nor delays at Junction points. Mr. O.S. Lyford is General Superintendent, Mr. Beverley R. Keim, General Passenger Agent, with offices at Kansas City. Again we repeat when you travel always take the Old Pioneer Line, - the Kansas Pacific. ![[trinidad-enterprise-1875-06-25-can-talk-build-rr.pdf]]