Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-17
What Railroad is Most Needed.

What Railroad is Most Needed.
 (Tempe News.)
 To the people of Maricopa county:
 Healthy competition that does not destroy but tends to increase all exist ing enterprises is certain cure for monopoly. Great knowledge of the subject and wisdom in the attack are necessary for its control by any other method. Our territory, trisected by trans-continental railways which have a common interest with the people of Arizona, in the development of our vast and varied resources, presents field that, if wisely controlled. will give us certain and rapid development. The greater part of the mineral pro- ducts that make Arizona so prominent have been produced within a radius of one hundred miles from this valley, and with the little labor that has been expended no other country of this extent can show better success in working of mines of all kinds, sur rounded by so great variety and quantity of mineral prospects of great apparent value. The Silver King, Old Dominion, Vekol, Vulture, Peck and Tip Top, are points in this radius, sur rounded by :l galaxy of noted develop ments. Here roamed the Hassayam pers, early noted for the rich rewards of their mining labors, drawn from spurs and angles of the mountains reaching from Harqua Hala around the waters of Bradshaw and Cave Creek to the headwaters of the east Verde. The development of our valleys and mines requires the timber and coal delivered over the cheapest and best route for distribution.
 This object can be most perfectly accomplished by the extension of the Guaymas < Calabasas railroad through Tucson, tapping the mining camps at the base of the mountains as it comes through the plains to Salt river valley, thence on, gently rising into the mining districts at the head of Camp creek, through Cave creek sum- init, dropping down by a gradual de- scent from the higher banks to the crossing of the Verde river, near the mouth of Fossil creek, and up Fossil creek to its head, where the line of survey of the Flagstaff & Globe (Min- eral Bel9 railway comes down from the level mountain plateau, covered with fine timber, that reaches for sev- enty miles to Flagstaff, through which forest thirty-two miles of said Mineral Belt is already built.
 Every resource of this county and territory should be husbanded and forcibly directed to the early compile tion of this railway from Calabasas via Tucson and Phenix to Flagstaff. Its final extension would be certain from Flagstaff to the crossing of the Colo rado river, short distance below Lees ferry, where the Denver & Rio Grande railway have selected the only practi- cal crossing of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, where the perpendicular rock walls rise to the level of the ad- joining plateau, forming an easy span for suspension bridge, on a direct line to JOab station on the Utah Southern railway. This, intervals being completed, would make direct line from Guaymas via Tucson. Phe- nix, Flagstaff and Salt Lake City on through Montana to the Northern Pa cific, uniting in interest all our trans. continental lines, and touching with magic power for development the l grandest bodies of timber, coal, iron and every other mineral, and uniting them with our fertile valleys the sus tenance of their vigor.
 The filling up and development O population by means of our trans-con tinental railways along the central lin, of our mountain regions, require nortl and south railroads for the commerc, that must distribute climatic produc
 tions. The Guaymas & Calabasa
 road, largely owned by men who con
 trol the Atlantic & Pacific system, i
 seeking connection over this line
 which would be part of the Minera
 Belt, using the part already built, an
 affords the best outlet for our valle
 to the Prescott railroad, by its contin
 uation by way of the upper Agua Fri
 settlements above the canyon, risin
 to junction with this line at tn head of Cave creek, passing throug
 Yavapai county's principal agricultul
 al section, and skirting the mour tains containing its greatest miners development. The Southern Pacif
 would also be benefited by the gen' 1al development thus produced, gi' , ing it greater distributive power an cheaper coal and timber.
 Thus are combined powerful inte
 ests in the opening up of native T, sources, such as have never befol ! been offered to enterprise and capita in the building of short spaces of raj road to fill up a continuous lir 2 through the undeveloped resources T continental magnifcence. The in ! , mediate united action of the peep of this territory would cause the cor
 pletion of this line at an early da , centralizing reduction works for u handling of our mineral resources al | producing general prosperity. A U you ready for action?
 , CHAS. TRUMBULL HAYDEN. e A splendid lot of footwear has ju
 been opened at Wildman & Co
 Call and 800 the now oiOOdS