The Phoenix herald., 1879-05-24
RAILROAD PROGRESS. The Different Railroads Pointing
 Toward Arizona.
-R. F. straine in a New York paper

The vast proportions being rapidly
 attained by the railroad system in
 the southwest, and the vital impor.
 tance of the various railroad enter
 prises which have been projected to
 complete it, are now commanding
 general and marked attention in the
 commercial world. Serving as the
 principal factor, they are being pro
 noted in unison with the great movement set on foot to prepare a
 new and larger field for advancing civilization by penetrating the great
 wilderness comprised in the great southwest region.
 The main arteries of this railroad system, already in process of con struction, are fast advancing from their incipicnt stages as the projected dcant garde Of this onward march, and have reached that point when their completion is assured. Already their value and importance have been established. The tiattering and tan gible results of what is being accom- plished, and the remarkable success attending their rapid extension, plainly indicate their important char actcr The marked bearing they are having upon the growth and prosper ity of the region, gives promising evi- dence ol the grander results yet to be achieved upon their completion. This offers an explanation also of the causes operating to promote the sev- cral schemes for minor railroad en- terprises being projected in syDpa- thy with this great movement, to serve as branches of and feeders to the main lines and complete the system.
 Everything indicates that a great future awaits the region southwest of the Mississippi, and a general pros perity has already begun to dawn upon it. Capital and business arc arousing themselves to proper con- ception of the vast interests which, now dormant, will soon require their attention, when the railroads have prepared a way for developing the in estimable natural resources of this region.
 The present aspect of affairs would seem to indicate that the only great highways available and practicable to the Pacific Coast, will soon be Oc- cupied by transcontinental limos of railroad. The northern route through Nevada is already occupied. Two powerful corporations are struggling for the possession of the 32d parallel route.
 THE s. P. R. R. COMPANY.
 The Southern Pacific Railroad is now advancing eastward over this route at the rate of two miles per day. They have already entered and will be two hundred miles across Arizo-a by July 1st, and expect to cover the gap of 800 miles to their objective boint, Fl Paso, on the Rio Grande by 1880. Eventually, they purpose push ing eastward until they reach the l Gulf of Mexico at New Orleans. In | the near future, connections will be | made with the lower Mississippi, and : St. Louis and Chicago. Their ulti- 1 mate design will be to continue the | same line to the Gulf of California and the City of Mexico. ThIs will 1 open up a profitable trade to our country with S,000,000 of people whose trade is principally monopo- ized by foreign countries.
 THE ATCHIsoN AND TOPEKA.
 The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, (now the Kansas, Colo -ado and New Mexico Railroad) has absorbed the Denver and Rio Grandc Narrow-gauge and other weaker -oads, and is vigorously pushing for ward westward at almost an equal ate of speed, and will seek an outlet tt Guaymas on the Gulf of California, The extension of this road has now cached Las Vegas, New Mexico, and t is expected will be completed to Albuquerque in less than six months. from here It has been determined 1t will continue into Arizona to Tucson : which will be its tcrminns until the Icxican and Guaymas Railroad. re ( ently incorporated and controlled ; " this company. is built through { he rich territory of southeastern Ari- . ona and Sonora, from the Gulf of 'alifornia to Tucson. This will give wo independent and complete trans lines to the Pacific Coast 1 he Texas Pacific will eventually ; -averse the 35th parallel to San Hi- 5 go, even if it fails to obtain govern lent aid, under some of the Varioas l lethods now beng adopted. and ' mich ara giving promise of being l lccessiul, for pr,vate capital will be { nlisted to aid tne enterprise. !
 HE '.RITORIAI. SUBSIDY, : Possibly che Southern Pacific Rail | oad will accept the Tergitoria! sub dy of $400,000, and build a rail ( oad from Maricopa Wells to Pres ! ott, Arizona, on the 35th parallel, ! nus gaining control of the entire ter q tory and preventing any competing ne from heading them of on that I fact it will enable theia , e rner the country. The project being seriously considered. f
 WHAT Is PROPOSED- [ The Union-Pacific management z, ,-, .,, :; I ,,,coI tLa:,, ,,YrDosa of on