Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-06-01
What Cau Be Done?

What Cau Be Done?
 We marvel much that the Tucson and Globe railroad should so long re- main an unrealized fact, considering the bright promise of magnificent return upon the necessary outlay that would immediately follow the opening up ot one of the richest mineral and agricultural sections there is in Ari- zOna. An investigation of the almost countless resources of the country contiguous to said railroad will more than suffice to convince any intelll- gent man of the value of the railroad in the direction indicated. A road run ming from Globe to Tucson will, we unhesitatingly assert, open up richer and more fruitful country than any other line of like length now Operat- ing or can be built in any of the new ly settled portions of the United States. The cost of construction between Tue son and the Gila river, sixty-two miles, would be comparatively small, thence on to Globe more difficulties and com plicatiOns would be presented, but they are of small magnitude consider ing the proud results that would be Gila co Inty, and is the center of one of the richest mineral belts known to man, to make no mention of the wide area of agricultural and stock growing country dependent upon it for sup plies. Link Tucson with Globe by an laH Cf few hundred, would soon number its population by the thous- ands. The assessable property of the town would soon double. In the meantime Tucson would not be idle but would be forging ahead under the new impetus of trade that would be opened for 30 or 50 miles along either side of this line of road.
 A road between Tucson and Globe would open the door to the prosperity of Gila and Pinal counties and Tucson would be the shipping point for all the country intervening between here and the San Carlos Indian reservation. The Old Dominion copper company and the other mines that would double their capacity if Globe was tap ped by a road, would of themselves contribute so largely to the carrying trade of the road as to justify its build ing and make 1t a guaranteed paying investment. But the trade and traf- fic of the road would almost commence at the place of beginning and by the time it reached the San Pedro and Gila rivers 1t would gather into goodly
 proportions. The Canyon del Orc
 gold and silver fields, the American
 Flag and Old Hat districts, the entire
 Santa Catalina range, rich in god, sil
 yer, lead and copper, the Mammoth
 gold properties, the Arivaipa and
 Bunker Hill districts, the Saddle
 Mountain district, the San Carlos coa
 fields, the Deer Creek country, the
 Owl Heads and Bloodsucker district
 the Tortilita range of mountains, the
 Sample mine and Mineral creek dis
 tricts, every ore oi which is belted anC
 scanned with gold, silver, lead and cop
 per ores, but which now lie idle fol
 lack of transportation facilities, wOulC , pour their wealth along the line 0 , this road, with daily increasing mag nitude. The Ray copper mines, tin Mammoth, the Table Mountain, tn, O'Brien copper mines and dozeI other famous and well known proper k ties would spring into life and giv 'a Employment to a thousand men. Tn z1 mines enumerated are but d fraction of those that would be called into ex istence if road was built, but the, would suffice of themselves to mak
 the road pay.
 The agricultural capabilities of tn , San Pedro and Gila valleys are no s surpassed anywhere The lands ar f seni-troplcal and of unsurpasSing fer : tility. The boasted lands of souther . California are less rich and less pro
 ductive than they. Almost anythin can be grown for the planting an } there would be no lack of this whe p once the country was pierced by a raj ' road and avenues of communicable B and commerce opened up. The cattl ranges are among the richest in tn | territory, but without cheap transpo
 tation nothing can be done.
 Fl The capital needed to build tn road is limited and the returns on th 6 {capital invested would, we are sa 's 'sjSshed, exceed that of any like lin 1.-The county has already contribute |<i4wo hundred thousand dollars to hel
 the good work along and with such < subsidy at the disposal of the projec 4 Drs we arc amazed that the road hs not long since~ been built. Not or Twentieth of the resources of this wol
 derful country has been mentione q {n the foregoing article, but still W ' fhink enough has been shown to sati
 fy any reasonable and intelligent ma of the great future that is before u IT belt of country in question, and u s. big dividends that will accrue to Il Ie company building a road therein.- aA Citizen.
 l. Save money by buying railroad ti f+ kets cheap, of Sam Drachman, Tu I .,l- {