Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-09-14
4 NORTH AND SOUTH ROAD.
The Views of Hon Chas. Trumbull Hayden
 upon the System Required.
TEMPE. August 18th. 1889.

San Bernardino, California.
 DEAR SIR :-I am in receipt of your letter in regard to railways.
 Yesterday Maricopa county voted a subsidy of S4000 mile for railroad | to be built from Phenix to the north ern boundary of Maricopa county on | whatever route it may be considered | by the board of supervisors to be of the greatest benefit to the people of said county.
 An intense desire to overcome rail l way monopoly from which they suffer, and 10 reach markets with their pro- ducts with reasonable freights, per vades the whole people of Pima, Co., chise, Pinal, Gila, Maricopa and Yav- apai counties. Consent of Congress is necessary to allow counties or the territory to subsidize railway. The rccklessness with which subsidies have heretofore been voted, which caused Congress to take the power from the people of the territories, will make it necessary for the people of county to prove that the taxpayers will be greatly benefited and that an emerg- ency has arisen that cannot be met in any other manner, before Congress is likely to consent to increase its indebt- edness. Our position has given us 700 miles of trancontinental railways that We tax and receive the droppings of their pay rolls. These railways have common interest in our de- ve4opment and the same right to pro- tectlon as dll taxpayers, and they will exercise conservative influence i'll all congressional legislation affecting taxation. The same advantage of sit uatlon that has given us two transcon- tlnental railways has caused a railway to enter our border from Guaymas, Mexico, which if continued on from Calabasas, could utilize much frac- tlonal development for central noun tain railway and proposed lines of railway might be directed so as to as slst In the development of this contin
 uous direct line that comes from Guaymas and continued on from Cal
 abasas, thorough Tucson, Florence, Tempe and PheniX to Flagstaff, would still be continued, crossing the Colo rado river below Lees Ferry, where the Colorado system of railways select ed the only point where the walls of that sublime canyon rise perpendicu- lar to the level of the adjoining pla
 teaus, where a suspension bridge can be erected; thence continuing this line due north on to the Sevier river and down said stream to the most southern extension of the Utah South ern railway, due south of Salt Lake city, from which point continuous
 railway is built due north to the south ern transcontinental railway in Mon ! tana.
 This line, built from Calabasas to
 Flagstaff, would control the influence
 of the Santa Fe transcontinental sys-
 tenn of railways by utilizing their rail
 way from Guaymas to Calabasas and
 side track to Tombstone, Bisbee and
 Benson, and producing an outlet for
 their coal and timber to the rich tim
 berless valleys and mines, extending
 all the way to Guaymas.
 The competition produced by this
 line would control the influence of the
 great mines at Bisbee and Tombstone
 and all the properties in the San Pc
 dro valley, and could utilize the sub-
 sidy already granted from Calabasas
 to Tucson and the road bed of the
 narrow gauge rsilway. Pinal and
 Maricopa counties should unite with
 all their power and influence in aiding l tho oliotA r,1oHiArN ,f fhi,
 way, which would also utilize the B
 miles of the Mineral Belt railway com
 pleted, and IS miles of road bed already
 made, together with it's survey seventy
 miles from Flagstaff to where it come out of the timber in a straight line tr
 Strawberry flat, where the McDOnalC survey connects. The influence O Gila county would be secured in thu
 aiding to secure to said county north
 ern competition.
 l enclose the preliminary eXamin ation of this route from Salt river t Strawberry flat at the edge of the tim Der, 70 miles from Flagstaff, in tn . Mineral Belt line of survey, made b one of the most experienced roaC } makers in the Rocky mountains-A l r. Mcdonald.
 f From the edge of this timber bel to Calabasas we pass directly throug
 on the most favorable line for the di 7 tribution of coal and timber to tn . mines in the mineral belt, described b , Herbert Howe Bancroft in his histor $ of Arizona: "The northwestern seC
 ton ot the territory, the region tribl = tary to the Colorado above the bi r bend, an area of 10000 square mile s out of the entire 100000, includin |. northern Mohave, about three-fourtl : of Yavapai and nearly all of Apach s counties, no rich deposits of the pre- e ious metals have been found. Yet tE e extreme northeast, beyond the Col,
 rado ChiquitO, with the region of Fo e Defiance and the Moqui towns as e center, contains immense coal fel( q that can hardly fail to assume grei > importance in time" But Ii Is great silver and gold belt may be d l. scribed as tract from 60 to 70 mil, g wide and 400 miles long adjoining u d non-metalic region above described (
 CAIO SCuliAtdolj CAlCIIOlLS HUH lllG OC V orado just below the big bend, sout D. eastward to Gila county and then, 2 south to the Mexican boundary" + It "The mines of southern Yavapai al S, northern Maricopa, in the region sou Jf of Prescott and the headwaters of Il IT Hassayampa and Agua Fria have bee n the chief gold producers of Arizona e "Down to 1886 there had bee
 recorded 1900 mines" "St re further southeast, across the Verde n Gila and Pinal counties, the leadiI C. districts being Pioneer and Globe, Il le veins being remarkable for their vari e. ty and richness in silver, gold al le copper" "The mountains re all this region abound in rich Tod S. and the prospects are most encoura ly ing though railroad facilities are ba re ly needed" "Southward aero le the Gila and past the Casa Grande al