Lamy felt almost immediately an easing of material concerns. The railroad system granted all clergy free passage and half rates for the shipment of goods and supplies for church and school. In the continuing drought, famine was averted by the freighting of food. Prices of everything dropped. The towns to the south were connected to the main east-west line by New Mexico’s internal railroad companies. Trains for the east left Santa Fe every morning at eight, with “sleeping car berths secured at station.”
