Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-09-27
A NEW FREIGHT ROUTE.
GLOBE TO BE BROUGHT WITHIN
 EIGHTY MILES OF THE R. R.
Only Ewenty-sIx SIiics of Mountain Road 10 be Built-The Volume of Travel == that will be AccoInm odated- An Earnest Movement
 to Open the Ney
 Route.

There has been no one subject of ma terial progress upon when the people or Pinal county have been more united than upon the proposition to construct good wagon road from Casa Grande to Globe. Every resident of the county seems to be deeply interested in the project, for its benefits are so manifest that even the chronic kiokers are enthusiastic m thelr advocacy of the measure.
 The present road from Casa Grande to Florence traverses level country and is always in good condition excepting the brief season of overflow of the Santa Cruz. This road is to be raised at the crossing of the flooded section and firm, hard roadway provided.
 At Florence the Gila river Is spanned by a substantial bridge and the road hence to the Reymert mines is good From the Reymert a practicable route has been found for a splendid road by easy grades to the summit of the Pinal mountains near the ranch of Irion < Craig, and from that point into Globe no fur ther difficulties are encountered.
 Twenty-six miles of road IS all that is necessary to be built to complete a through route from the railroad to Globe that can be travelled at all seasons, and the entire distance is between seventy and eighty miles. This proposed section will !. be somewhat expensive to construct, but | the most liberal estimate places 1t within 1 thirty thousand dollars
 The plan proposed for its construction | is to solicit private subscriptions of money or labor, from the various communities directly to be benefited and to ask the county to contribute as hberally as possl- ble to the fund. It is believed that every farmer iu the valley having produce tc sell will cheerfully lend helping hand SO far as his abilities will permit the mining companies at Globe and along the proposed road have already signifeC their willingness to make generous do nations. and even the Mormon settle
 ments along Salt river that seek marke+
 for their abundance of produce, will lenC
 a helping hand in building the road Under such circumstances it seems a;
 though there should be no difficultyin ac
 complishing this great and important en
 terprise.
 Robt. A. Irion writes from Pinal rancl
 that he visited Globe last Saturday ant
 talked with many prominent mining mel
 upon this subject, and received great en
 couragement. He learned that fully tw
 million pounds of freight per month cam
 into Globe from Wilcox. The Old Do
 minion company receives one mllllo pounds of coke and ships 100000 pound of copper per month, and pays out quarter of a million dollars annually to freight. The Buffalo company will blo' , in their smelters so soon as a supply ( } coke can be had and there is stron l probability that the Long Island smelte l will soon resume operations. These VI
 l.. lr1y,oo of frnI ol1fIT1
 business and the increasing bushes
 created by these and contingent industrie . will still further add to the importance f the new route. .,
 The saving of sixty or even fifty mile
 of travel under such conditions is an itel of vast importance, for the time col . sumed in making the round trip and tl i, lessened cost of freichting will figure U ? handsomely in the course of year. It < stated that four hundred teams are col ' stantly on the road between Wilcox ar
 Globe, engaged in hauling freight. Int
 consume vast quantities of hay and bark l. which the farmers of this valley can pr ,s duce. while new market is opened f L various other products. ., r. The question as to whether the bull B. ing of thes road will divert the tray s this way finds a ready answer in the ia i. that it is cheaper to haul 80 miles than b. haul 140 miles, and few cents per poul
 saved upon so vast a volume of freight
 a simple business proposition that I If ouires no argument to demonstrate. v- The road must be built and it is to t as interest of Pinal county that it be bu n with the least possible delay The supt 9n visors will be asked to take the necessa to steps to lay out the road and to give 1t IT, the aid the finances of the county " at permit, and then the people must do t CT rest