Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-20
ALONG THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC.

 The Great shipping station or Eastern Ar
 fzona-source ofsupply for Globe District
 Camp Grant and the Great Grazing Coun
 Try Surrounding WiIicON-Benson Infc
 Prominence. ete.
 WILCOX, August 12.-Willcox contin. ues to improve and grow as the country settles up and new mines are developed The large warehouse of the Southern Pacific road together with that of Nor. ton & Stewart, at once impress one with the importance of Wilcox as a shipping station. Supplies for Camp Grant and ! the San Carlos Indian Reservation are 1 shipped to the interior from here, as well as the important mining district of l GlOOe. Norton x Stewart, who are the | post traders of Camp Grant, have a large ! and connexions commission house here, and also carry large assortment | of general merchandise. This firm, I which may fairly take rank as one of the | leading ones ln the Territory, IS doing a 1 large and prosperous business, and IS deseryedly popular with all classes. | They began operations at Camp Grant ! long before the advent of the railroad, and have continued to prosper and build up until ,hey have become an important factor to the general growth and busi- ness Of southeastern Arizona, and we are glad to know that they share In it's general prosperity and thrift.
 J. Lleberman (S Co. also do an im- mense shipping 10 Globe and the north ern country. They also do a general mercantile lvteip.gs .,l .l.,- ..,,.- here and at Lordsburg IS heavy and increasing. They do a very large pro- portion of all the handling of coke for the smelters of Globe, and attend to the shipping of builion.
 Wilcox is hot depending entirely up- on the shipments O freights to and from the interior with the large number of men and teams that mUst necessarily be Kept on the road for her sGppoIt, being situated m the midst of one of the finest grazing countries III the Territory, and thousands of cattle roam over the plains and foot hills of the adjacent mountains. The result of these combined substantial factors will always contribute a healthy support to Wilcox. which, We predict, will continue to grow and prosper.
 BENSON.
 Benson has taken boom of late and has begun to put on the aIrs of a fron- tier city. The building of tue Atchison road south from Benson, is doubtless the cause of its present plunge forward, but there are other reasons why it has assumed d permanent growth. A sme!- ter Is now about completed at Benson. Eastern parties are furnishing the capi- tai and Mir. John Williams, a practical shelter, Is Superintendent. ThIs valu- able enterprise has been established principally through the individual ef- forts of Mr. J. NJ. Day, whose keen busi- ness saGaclty and fam 'iarity with the inning and reduction of ores led him to toresee q most profitable speculation in the industry. Aside from being con tlguoUs to valuable mines upon all sides of the town, Benson enjoys special busj- ness advantages ID possessing competi- tive lines of railroad transportat on-a fact whose importance should not be overlooked.
 Among the heavy business men of Benson may be mentioned Messrs. Bar nett * Block, whose mercantile transac- tIons have grown with the town and whose freighting notifications supply all adjacent places. l.. Zeckendorf < Co. also have a large warehouse at this point. The Virginia House, a good hotel, is kept by E. Vucovich X Lukini, and the Benson House, Is presided over 0y that prince of landlords, Mir. D. H. Logan. Benson is the headquarters of MT. James Car, the freight king, who Is by all odds the heaviest freighter in the Territory. He owns over four hundred mules and numberless wagons and hauls ore and freight to and from the various camps. To feed his stock requires a car load of barley, costing over S600 every two daysl Mir. Carr has accLmul- atel nearly all his wealth in the past wo years by keen foresight and hard work and has built up his own bonanza.
 NJ.