Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-07-05
RAILROADS.
A Gigantic Project to Build I'm .r;.
 ZOna.
A Network of Roads That wuu Init. .,,
 Its Cities in Commercial Bonds.

- Governor Tritle has for several Wee, oeen ln San Francisco, in the interes or the Central Arizona Railroad. an TOT Inc first time has made public fl intent and scope of the project Nii be seen that it follows closely fl views expressed by the CITIZEN uno
 'he railroad question in Southern Ar zona' and inspires hope that ultimatel 'ne eity of Tucson will enjoy lntima, commercial relations with every promi, ent point Tn the Territory. and will %, Joy the advantages of competitive tran,
 continental traffic.
 The details are fully set forth in n re
 cent number of the San Francisco Pos,
 winch also contains large and com
 prehenslve map of Arizona with in
 route of the proposed railroad. or ser;a
 Of railroads, delineated.
 The Central Arizona Railroad WAS or
 gahlzed Tn Prescott, and Incorporate,
 May 10th, lSS4 The officers and direc
 tors are Governor F. A. TritIe. President
 Col. C, P. Head, Vice President; Bsns
 ot Arizona, Treasurer; \. 0. Murpby
 Secretary; Hon. Clark Churchill. Gen
 eral Counsel Directors-J. N. Roden.
 burg, Hon. Hugo Richards. Hon. T.
 bashlord, Col. C. F. Head, Hon. Clark SSnIurchlll, SI, lion. F. F. Clark, Hon. Nathan
 66lils' \; O. Murphy, Esq, Alfred Eoff
 I non; John G. Campbell. F. K. Ainswortb, Tritle. H A'
 The surveyed line of the first division rom the Atlantic X Pacific railroad to Prescott IS about II miles in length ad. herlng for the entire distance to valleys anu side hills, Involving light work. and assuring not only minimum cost of con. structlor, but most satisfactory Fssults ln operation. It Is adjacent to points at which large freight shipments originate. ana So situated as to develop a larpe tributary area of agricultural and graz ing lands m tine Chine, Williamson and Grenits Creek valleys.
 The Junction with the Atlantic & racine line, at point about thirty miles west Of Ash Fork, the present shipping station for southern traffic, Is convenient to the extensive pIne forests of the San Francisco and Bill Williams mountains, and so situated as to command. in con nectlon with the trunk line, the entire lumber business of the South.
 The southern division to Phenix will be about ll5 miles Tn length. The route throughout IS practicable, with good alignment and light grades while the ousInsss on this line will yield very large returns. The valley Of the Salt and Glia rivers embraces some of the finest farming and fruit lands in the world. and with railroad outlet to the north and south the prosperity of that section Is assured and Its progress practically unlimited. This point is the terminus or the southern division, but does not end the manifestations of the proposed road. From l he lix there are two pro- posed lines, the construction of which will depend on contingencies. One of these lines runs southeast to Florence. lntersects Globe branch at Riverside, thence up the San Pedro to Benson, where It Teaches the terminus of the Sonora railroad. The second proposed line runs south from PnenIx to Quijotoa 4 third projected lue runs from Globe
 
 intended to embrace the present route selected by the Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, with an intimate associ ItIou with the Tucson and Gulf ot Calif ,!n:a railroad, the latter to be ds elected some what to the west to tap the Quijo:saz and the great mineral regions to tls south and west. Of this the Post says: The Tucson and Gulf of California -s4r frz f. years. and If It was considered desirable to run a. central Arizona road by way of Globe district and then to Tucson, the Tucson and Gulf Of California railroad could be Uuilt from Tucson, by way of QWjOtOa, to Port Lobos, on the gulf of California. In that event nO direct line | from PheDix south would be requifed.'
 ". S. Lyle, President of tie principal | miues at QuIIOtoa, m advocacy Of this l road, says ot the proposed line from l PaenM to Quijutoa: "Instead of get l ting supplies such as barley, flour, eIc, from San BeTnariino, Los Angeles and l other points m Southern California. a | distance of 800 miles, our supplies all l could be obtained from the Salt river l and GIla valleys, distance not to eX- l csed l0J miles and certainly at reduced | cost For want of an outlet the products | Of those valleys are Tottlng III ware houses. The railroBd VIII also be oi | vast benefit to large surrounding | country, which is known to bc rich IL and which heretofore has been isolated. This railroad is intended to pass through, or very near to, a large number of very important mining camps besides QuijotOa. In fact 1t will open up a great mineral district, in which large and rich mines are known to exist, and where. m addition to rich deposits, there are millions of tons of ores of too low grades to be worked with the present poor facilities and the high cost of transportation and supplies. All that would be necessary to bring forward these districts would be com and development If II should be deemed desirable, after the of a north and south line of railroad to our district at QuIiotoa to reach t;dewa.er, a very inexpensive rail road could be built distance not greater than eighty miles through lIne of val Ieys running north and south to some point on the Gulf of California, such as Port Lobos or Trinidad. This line has already been surveyed by the Tucson & .iulf of California Railroad company, and a grant has been made by the Re public of Mexico of about S9,OOO per mile for the entire distance that would run within the State of Sonora.
 Lumber has now to be hauled dis -ance by rail of from l,2O0 to l,5OO miles rom the Sierra Nevada mountains. This can be shortened 300 miles by con Decting with the fertile lumber districts If Flagstaff and vicinity, on the line ot he A. * F., by way of Prescott and Phoenix, through winch the Central rizona Railrcad is intended to run. Tnvaluable forests of timber are known 70 exist there. The price of lumber will ,a materially lessened. No doubt the .nEoad will be benefit to all that sec. ion of the country through when !, Iossas lon e' as it is a splendid mineral country.
 The Papago Indians are not slow ;,,l ID ,drinistering the penalties or ctipie