Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06
Calahasas PresenL nnl Fnlrr..

Calabasas now so prominently before
 the public because of its evil 5oings as
 a frontier town, has mapped ont Q fore it an era of progress that in the near
 future foreshadows 1t as one Of the com
 ing eenters of industry and thrift It's
 position at the confluence of the fertile
 valleys of the Souoita and Santa Cruz,
 would alone make It such and as a focal
 point of four important lines of
 railway 1t can certainly be no less
 The Atchison Topeka and Santa Ee
 road has already established head
 quarters at that point, have surveyed and are now making preparations for
 the erection of d rouldhOu of fifty
 eight stalls which most probably wiu be
 the larges tOf its kind on tine coast The
 machine shop, paint shon, black
 smith shop and car shop vii be pro-
 portlonally large as will bs all the
 necessary offices winch the coinpanv eE-
 pect to use. The Sonora Limited viii
 be the next road Co reach it and will
 there make its conn ectlou with tAe
 Santa Fe. The Bee Line from San
 Diego by crossing the great desert and
 Joining hands at Calahasas will bring
 California almost to their door and be
 the commercial highway between that
 State and southern Arizona aud all the
 northerA States of Mexico The line
 has already been surveyed and grading.
 1t IS reported, will be commenced
 January lst. The fourth road will be
 the Arizona Southern, with its two
 terminal points one m Calalasas and the other ID Hucs0n. or some point
 on the SoGth, rn pHeiic further north, andn upon winch Iu k suil
 work Is to be soon beglm. The
 lines of side tracks iu and about
 Calabasas are something wonderful,
 there being not less than twenty-six al-
 ready lald out and the grading on them
 m process of construction. The railroad companies have reserved the right cr ground for as mal y more lines iu ease 1t IS found necessary to put them iu.
 The switching e nlue miles long, which
 with one exception, are believed to be the longest in the world. The build lngs of the Atehison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad are, by being the first corners. located near the central port on of the embyro city, which laid out uathcmat- Ically, is divided into squares oI three hundred feet face, with iutersactiug al- leys of twenty feet in width. TIe streets are sixty feet wide and cross each other at right angles. There are two avenues. | the Sonoita and the Santa Cruz, each l one hundred feet wide, and situated one toward either end of the town. Severn. | blocks have been reserved for Park pur. l poses, as also one for the school build ! Ing, and one for the Calabasas Hotel. | now finished and said to be the finest | in the Territory. barring none. Within 1 the present town limits there are tEcG- ! weight hundred lots of which some two | thousand five hundred have been sold. | some few for speculative purICse=, but | mostly to parties who give guarantees | to erect suitable bgildiugs within a cer- | tain specified time. The SouoIta river. l originally ziEZaging its way through | the valley, has been straiChteLea and a l free course given to its waters, rlAAIug | if of any mIasmatic influences 4 may | previously have lad, till now the place l is considered as hcaltliul G5 any iu | southern Arizona. The town, --ul- .s ! t Is, has four stores, twelve -usns. | four restaurants and one .l..- .-- present population number 5-a-t five | hundred and fifty and is gradually be- ing augmented by people who go there | to build and establish permanent homes.