Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-07
R9ilrOad S.

It Is encouraging to note the recent change of tactics in the Territorial
 papers south Of this point, with re- l ference to the importance of Globe as ! mineral district, and its assured brilliant
 near future, as Q great factor n the l bullion production of our Territory. | The CIFIzRS, in sensible article, makes favorable mention of the matter, urging
 necessity for better railroad facilities, even one direct to Globe; that zone of | the richest mineral regions in the Terri tory may, by cheap transportation, be | enabled to utilize lower grade ores,
 while only the high grade" can now be
 made to pay.
 None are more cOnversant with these ! salient facts than those engaged ID
 reduction, and residents, close observers of such attempts, and too frequently
 sufferers, more or less, by such failures,
 caused by the enormous cost of wagon transportation 100 tO l5O miles, besides the fearful uncertainty of necessary | freight arriving ID season for continued
 operation, often delayed two weeks,
 necessit8ting shutting down" at great
 expense and loss to operators and iu-
 jury to the camp.
 Then. every owner of reduction works particularly of copper, on account of
 the great amount and bulky character of
 bullion ana cOke-every b -uer O. n4lnes
 companies and individuals would be
 largely benefited by cheap railroad
 trans oortatiOn; that lower grade ores
 may be made proftably available for their use, and the greatly increased prosperity of the camp. Merchants would reap large advantages from such cheap and quick transportation, by being able to turn capital two or three times to once now, making greater total profit on far less per cent. over cost; thereby also bsnefting consumers, stop them gO- ing outside for supplies; and these, with l increase of population, stimulated by l such railroad facilities, merchants. con sumers and sales would rapidly increase. l
 The Inducements to capitalists to I build and perate such railroads are | even greater than benefits derivable tO l the people. A railroad from Benson | down the San Pedro, thence via Globe | through TOnto Basin to most a vailable point on the A. S P. R. R., would pass, over half the distance. through good l mineral sections on either side, includ- ing the large copper deposits, affOrding great freight factor Tn bullion, coke, etc. It would also pass through the vast pIneTies on the Black Mesa, afford Ing another important freight factor, in distributing over the almost denuded l portion Of the country south for 2lJ miles and long distances on either side, 1 for mine, mill, domestic and other pur- poses, the demand therefor rapidly iu- creasing with such facilities, and mer- chandise and all other commodities for freight, increasing in like ratio.
 Another lnducement would be the erection of large reduction works at the crossings of Salt and Gila rivers, with ''cheap water" motive powers, to re- ,luce the vast amounts of lowest grade ores at profits, the carrying of which from mines to mills would make another item of freight for such rail road. Another heavy freight item will be distribution of Coal and wood for dO- nestle and other uses over this vast area: , the little timber for those purposes now last disappearing. and the passenger | traffic between the two transcontinentai lnes will be of no incOnsiderable impOr- 1 .ance, and rapidly increasing.
 We are credibly informed by an intel igeDt person of close observations and [ wide experience, who has made personal [ examination of over twu-thirds such ' 'Oure, two or three times the past two a 'ears, with a view to accurate ascertain nent as to its feasibility for a railroad, hat there are no engineering difficulties llong that portion; that three-fourths of he distance Is over comparatively level { nesas and valleys, requiring very little V trading, and not to exceed twenty to | hirty miles that will necessitate heavier [ work; that with the exception of q very [ ew miles along the bluffs Of a raviDr. s Composed f -, -rf- F+~:e-. to - raizc a pos. me Black Mesa, be is informed 6y a eliable persons cOnver-snt herewith. 2 he remaining portion of the route Is ( rainly level mesa and valley. There s ore we cordially endorse the sentiments d f the CITIZEN. Let the railroad come: e he sooner the better for all parties. [