Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-10-16
For Tubac, Hermosillo, GUaymas and all Intermediate Points. Via the New Arizona Southern Railway From Tucson. The Company Incorporated and Preliminary Surveys
 Completed. Flattering Prospect of Our City Becoming a Great Rail-
 way Center.

revenue jO Tucson, and our city, hold
 ing the key in point of situation. has
 been enabled Co keep all rival claim
 ants Co that trade at respectful dis
 tance. During the past year or two
 the invasion of American capital
 across the border has opened up to | the eyes ct the outside world some of
 the immense possibilities of Sonora. | The natural resources of the country | are said Co be great-even wonderful. . | The people as rule seem disposed to
 regard the invasion of American capi-
 ltal and enterprise with friendly eyes,
 and-all malicious reports tO the con- trary notwithstanding - Americans
 who go into Sonora with the means and disposition 10 develop the wealth of the country are met more than half way, as many of our own people can attest. That Tucson can sit supinely idle and hold the rapidly growing trade of Sonora is a fallacy which our merchants and citizens should be quick to reject. Tucson to be a great commercial centre, even or Southern Arizona, must shake of all drOwsi- ness and reach OLt her hands. She must take prompt and prominent part in the peaceful revolution which Is invertinC the old order of things in Mexico. The great Eastern trade centers are preparing to extend their iron feelers 10 encompass the prize, and the railroad world is Ggog with gigantic projects for the advantageous solution of the commercial problem.
 That our city should be the initial point of S railroad to tributary DOT
 tiOns of Sonora, and that she should have a nearer road from tide water,
 has been apparent for some time Our mines need machinery cheaper than can be procured at present, and the machinery will need fuel which we have not. If it is to be believed that mining in Arizona is in it's infancy, then the difficult problem of cheaper transportation fer the necessities for the successful development or mines must soon be grsppled with. Each day records the inception of some inn
 pOTtant enterprise, and each day the need of cheaper methods of mining becomes more apparent. Large sec- liOns of our Territory abound in low grade ores. now practically worth 'ess,
 because the transportation to the To- calities of the means OfreductiOn, and from the reduction works of the bull
 lion, eats up all the profits The people are not few who believe that before many years our smelters will oyer- shadow our mills, and that the now worthless deposits Of low grade ores will besbonanZas. But to effect this.
 fuel must be cheaper, timber must
 be cheaper. transportation must be cheaper.
 Regarding the subject in this light, 1t becomes apparent that Southern Ar
 iZona must look tO Guaymas for its nearest outlet to tide water That Q railroad will soon be built from some
 point in Southern Arizona Co that sea-
 port is as certain as that it is ueces- sarv. So it behOoves our people to
 bcstir themselves and make sure that that point is Tucson. For some time past Ii Las been a matter of un- certainty tO people outside of the rail road world (and possibly to the insiders themselvcsl as tn which of the avail
 able routes to Guaymas will be select
 ed by the Atchisou. Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company in the con struciiOn of it's road to that port. Whether it will leave New Mexico to enter Mexico; whether it will cross the Arizona line near the point now crossed by the Southern Pacific, and
 thence, by way of Charleston, enter Mexico at a point south or Calabasas; {; or whethcr-as iSlhOuCht hy many-lt will cross the Arizona line further north, making Ijs way via the Gila. Old Camp Grant ard Canyon de Orc to Tucson, arc questions which we believe no one but the railroad man aCers themselves can answer. It is of course well known that the sonora Railway lhmitedl, now in progress of construction nOrthward from Quay mas, is practically q portion of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road. Should it leave Tucson out in the cold, | it would prove fatal blow to her SO- nora trade, save in one event, and
 that is the construction of a connect ing road from this city to some point on the Sonora Railway. This, the | CITIZEN is happy Co announce, is in ! @ fair way of cOnsummation.
 Late in July last company was in- | cOrporated under the laws Of Ihe Ter ritory of Arizona, 10 be known as the Arizona Southern Railroad Company, | having for an object the construction of railroad from Tucson sOuthwsTd
 along the santa Cruz Valley to a point ! of junction with the Sonora Railway now building. and having the follow ing Board of Directors. Thomas | NickersOn (President of the Atlantic and Pacific, Mexican Central and So-
 nora Railway, Limiteil W. E. Put
 man, Lucins c. Pratt, Edward W. Kiusley, George II Quincy, Thomas 1 L. Rodgers. all of Boston and vicinity aad largely iuierestei in the above mentioned roads. Arizona Directors
 -ExGov. \. ?. K Stafford, Dr. C. II. Lord. Col C. P. Sykes.
 The organizer and promoter of the
 scheme was Col. C. ?. Sykes, the ! well-known capitalist, and the largest ! shareholder in the san Xavier and other Arizona mining enterprises
 Satisfied after an investigation that 1 such an enterprise would De hlgnly ! profitable one, Col. Sykes carefully
 gathered all the facts in the matter
 and laid them before both Tucson and | Boston capitalists (some of the latter
 being heavily interested in the Achi-
 son road). and the result of hIs etiOr
 was the formation of the above com | pany with capital stock of $500 | GOO. 4 preliminary survey was a
 once commenced and sufficient money
 paid in to cover all present wants
 and the engineers have just completed
 the work to the Sonora line. The ar
 ticles Of incorporation include th right to build branches from the mRll