Arizona citizen., 1878-11-30
The Soutbefa Pacifc Raiiroad.

for many miles with the road builders
 The air is full of music of the picE
 and shovel far up the valley of tht
 Gila; the atmosphere is misty with tho
 dust that hundreds of workmen art
 raising as they clear the way for tho
 track. The great road-builders have come at last; great army of men have
 invaded our borders, and in it's onward
 march through this vast Territory, il
 is clearing the pathway of progress
 Before it the wAr-whOop of the savage
 Apache will be heard no more, and
 the bandits of the frontier will be com pelled 10 seek other fields to commit
 their depredations. The vast undevel
 oped resources of Arizona, New Mex
 ico and the Mexican States adjacent tO
 our borders, that have laid dormant for
 centuries, will soon be made available
 and afford happy homes for hundreds
 of thousands of families now home
 less; employment for millions of peo-
 pie now without employment, and add
 untold millions to the wealth of the
 whole country. It will bring to our
 doors palatial cars by which we can
 travel to and from other parts of the continent with speed, ease and com fort, and can s,nd profitably to other
 markets our beef mutton, wool, cotton, sugar and ores, and in exchange re- ceiYe the products required for our
 use from every land. New towns and cities will follow ID the wake of this invading army, and the Arizona of today is very soon to be changed into new Ariz ns. New industries will spring up on erery hand, new towns
 will be built, n.w lines of travel will
 be opened and a vast number of new
 people will cone to help inauguraIe this new state of affairs.
 In view of this great work that is
 now going on and of the grand and magnificent results that will follow its completion it may not prove uninter- esting to know vho are the promoters of this gigantic enterprise and brief mention of wha they have done may not prove undressing. A railroad to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans was considered of first im- portance fram the time of the acquisi- ton of Cahfornia from Mexico, and many were the schemes anu projects suggested to accomplish it. T. D.l Judah, q practica engineer, was one1 of the foremost inhis efforts 10 create | an interest in this enterprise, and after some preliminary surveys in the Sierra Nevada mountains he came to | and called a meeting to endeavor 10 raise by subscription the necessary means to make thorough survey of the roue. The explanations he gave drew the lttention to the enter prise for the firsttime of the present promoters of the great railroad now being built throlgh Arizona. A day or two subsequent to the meeting re- ferred to, Gov. Lland Stanford, c. P Huntington, Chales and Judge E. B. Crocker and Max Hopkins, all resi- dents of Sacramnto met together and agreed one with the other that they would sink all heir worldly posses sions or carry trough 10 successful completion this treat work. It WAS bold, brave undrtaking and few be- lieved at that tme that their efforts could result otherwise than in ruin, and the folly of hese men was a sub iect of common observation; they each had cOmpeeno, were living quietly at peace witt allthe world, loved and by al who knew them as upright entrpising business men, good citizens ard excellent neighbors. It was often suggested, what can men ask for mora tley have all the worldly goods they ned what madness to run he risk of bsng all and be forced
 into a life If contention and strife But these mn determined to hazard every thing,and by torlitude, energy md ability tey won the golden prize, md have witten their names high up )n the rolloi honor as among thel greatest roaI builders of any age; but, if social comfort and enjoyment is con- 'idered, wht fearful sacrifice they have made. Fron comparative ease, afflu- ,nce and pace, they were plunged nto the stony sea Of envy and strife | fudge E. B.CfOcker, fell a victim 10 l m overtaxd brain and went to pre- I nature graz a number of years ago Mark Hopkns, dIed with the harness 2 ,n less tha 8 year ago; patient, pale f md carewdn, he never complained, put no Afrian slave ever bore bur
 hens more eavy to carry. These men ;ould have~ell afforded to rest upon
 heir laurel when the Central Pacific V Railroad w: completed, but they saw ? hat the vasinteriOr of California was without the railroad il and they have used h very dOlli of their available re- h ources in hiding roads to peneirate II very inhsitsble poI tion of Callfor. c lia, and finIly are crowning their en- b erprise by eDssing mountains and des- VI Tt wastes, sd reaching across Arizona W with the uimate design of reach E ng the Gulof Mexico at New Orleans .,,I ,,,al-, r,n,acfiops .-;sl ,ka lo..