Arizona citizen., 1878-09-28
Preparations by the Southern
 Pacific.

Here is au item from the Los Angele!
 Star of the 18th:
 Indications point strongly toward ac
 tive operations in railroad building 1T
 Arizona soon. Ties are now on tht ! way to Wilmington in large quanlitie:
 for the purpose, it is stated, of extend
 ing the road through Arizona.
 Within few days. a contract wa:
 made for 10000 ties to be delivered al
 Whitewater station. on the Colorado
 Desert, east of San Gorgonis Pass 1 from adjacent mountains. These ties
 are evidently coming eastward, as i,
 would be folly 10 ship them west over heavy grade and at the same time bring ties east over the same grade.
 An agent of the Western Develop ment Company, hes just made a trip over the route as far as Tucson and returned via Florence and Phenix This company is the one that con- structs railway for the Southern and Central Pacific people, and the agent referred to is purchaser of supplies Very likely he did not buy anything, but ascertained what supplies might be advanlageously obtained in the Ter ritOry
 The company has quite recently eff fected an incorporation under Arizona laws with a majority of the incorpora- tors residents of the Territory.
 Aside from these indications of rail. way extension eastward from Yuma, the company's own interests will i'm. pei it to build this way and that soon. By the prompt building of l50 10 200 miles, the trade of the Territory can be controlled for some time to come by the California lines Nov, long trains of freight are coming to Tucson from the terminus of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road, and if not soon checked by superior inducements by the Western route, it will be hard to do it. The Southern Pacific Con- pany is perfectly informed on all points iu this connection IL sees clearly the drift of freight. It long ago decided to control il in Arizona, and if not al- together bt the present overland and Southern Pacific lines. then jy al through southern line to and connect ing with trunk lines to the leading eastern and southern cities.
 Since the foregoing was put in type, we find the following in the Sentinel:
 The Southern Pacific Railway Com | pany are in earnest in their intention 1 to push across Arizona forthwith. 1 Large shipments of ties are on their | way to Wilmington to be used in bridging the distance which separates Yuma from Tucson. There is no doubt of the fact that the Southern Pa. ciic people intend 10 build eastward until they meet somebody coming west from that section. Their right 70 lay track in Arizona cannot be disput. ed. The concession procured from the Arizona Legislature nearly two years sgo is now the law ofthe land, through he failure Of Congress 10 rescind it.
 The laws of the United States pro- ride that where Congress neglects to 'epeal a law of Territorial Legisla- Ure within one year two years-Edi- or SeDtineD from its passage the act becomes valid. Stanley Matthews in. reduced such a repeating act in the United States Senate. It passed that )ody, but failed of passage in the House. There is therefore no legal ob- tacle 10 the progress of the Southern Pacific to the New Mexico line, and he presumption is that with the open. Dg of October, they will push for Tucson at the rate of a mile day.
 Superintendent Hewitt informs Us hat the Southern Pacific Railway Company are shipping sixty thousand ies to Wilmington, to be used in build c ng the railroad through Arizona. Two # the vessels containing these ties are low on the way to that port.-L. A. ! Iersld !