Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-04-03
TIE CITIZEN.
SUNDAY, APRIL 8 iss,
4 rnrerfnl Ccrnoration.

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 The proiectors and builders or the | Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe Rail ! road have exhibited a degree of en- terprise and sagacity in their great | undertaking remarkable even in this age of wonders.
 The capital required in. the con- struction of thls great line has been furnished by Boston capitalists. The company first built a road from Kan sas City to Pueblo, and a little more than three years ago declared their in tenuon to extend their road to a juno lion with the Southern Pacific, and to do il without asking or waiting for any government aid.
 h projecting the extension of their line, the company offered NIT. ". B. Strong, Superintendent of the c. B. & Q. Railroad, such inducements as he could not well refuse, 10 take charge of the gigantic enterprise, and under his able direction the work has been pushed forward as expediiCusly as its nature would permit
 The completion of the road to junction with the Southern Plcihc. thus forming a second transconI- mental railroad, is a matter of but a few days aso. An outlet upon the Pacific coast to intercept the ocean commerce as far south as possible has been one important object kept con- stantly in view by the company, and work has already commenced a, Dem ing junction on the route towards Mexico to meet their line of road al- ready extending far out of Guaymas to the northeast.
 This enterprising company will not rest content with a road simply to Guavmas, several hundred miles up the Gulf of California, but intends pushing it down the coast to Mag auan, the better 10 accommodate the ocean commerce.
 4 still more important part of their programme ls a complete independent line 10 San Francisco and San Diego. From Albuquerque, New Mexico, the road has been extended westward for over one hundred and fifty miles on tLe projected line of the Atlantic and | Pacific, or the 5jlh parallel railroad. This road will pass through Arizona, touching at Prescott, and crossing the Colorado at the Needles, and proceed ! by route not as yet fully determined l to San Francisco. Al San Beruardino It will meet the California Southern Road, now iu ,nur-e of construction from San Di,a, and in less than eighteen months ur -.urk line will have is tltCefs reaching into the four E-ost important seapor,s on the Pa c!hc Coast, creating at once a carry in 2 trade O. unprecedented volume. The Boston capitalists, while de- veloping for themselves a legitimate business, have accomplished, or ale about 10 accomplish, d work ID which the whole country Is interested h the construction and management of the road they haze uuiye sally pur- sued a veIy liberal policy toward all parties with whom they have come in | contact, and We have failed to hear Of a single instance Of dissatisfaction expressed al any station on the whole route of the treatment given Ly the railroad officials They do not, of course, run the road TOT the benefit ofI the public alone, but ;hey want a fair inte-c ton their money. They have invested their own means in the great work, and have asked DO aid from the Government or the people, and they fully merit lbe financial success that must certainly follow their foresight and uneXamPiec enterprise.