The herald., 1895-02-19
RAILROADS FOR ARIZONA
The Territory People Wide Awake TO
Their Interests
How the Ten Thousand Dollar Subsidy Has
Been Apportioned Among the
Various Counties
tomorrow,

Tucson Feb 1S.-Give Tucson a rail
road up the fertile Santa Cruz, highway
| to the Mexican trade of Sonora and to
Guaymas for port of entry, and she will
be the metropolis of Arizona, and as much
cultivated land will be tributary to our
city as Phoenix enjoys today. Our water
| in both the Santa Cruz and Rillito is
| practically unlimited and what Maish t5
Driscoll and the Allisons have accom-
| plshed in the way of water redemption
can be made one succession of magniti-
cent successes from Tucson to Gala basas
and for twenty miles below our city. We
are bound to have these results in the
end, but our citizens can do much to
hurry them up, says the Arizona Daily
| Citizen.
| Tucson, Feb. 1S.-The SO. 900 wanted of
the citizens of Maricopa Pinal and Pima
counties, for the survey of the north and
south road to Nogales is not for the So,
600 itself SO much as the fufilment of
promises made by Mr.. Murphy to his cap
itaists.
The $40, 600 is the merest bagatele to
| the amount to be expected. The sum for
the survey has been assured. On the
strength OF this Mr.. Murphy told his cap
italists that the survey would be made for
them, that they might have the right of
way and line in readiness for their work.
The road then could be put through with
promptness and'dispatch.
The capitalists will be here shortly
on the completion of the road to Phoenix.
What Mr.. Murphy desires is to have the
surveys ready to hand over to them,
ready for the furthering of the road to
Calabasas. This he wants as conserva-
tive business man, to make the showing
as favorable as possible. That done the
mi ha taI 10,
go through.
That they mean business is already
demonstrated. Governor Murphy says
that in addition to the rails TO Phoenix
thirty more miles at the favorable figures
obtained were ordered, conditional on the
road going forward as was then expected,
in view OF the promises made by the peo-
pie along the line of the proposed road
Now it is certain that the company does
not want to build thirty miles ont in the
desert and then stop.
Governor Murphy further says that the
subscri ptions may be considered good
gamble, if nothing more. The surveys
will be made by the company's engineers,
and it is not likely that, once under way,
they will stop with single line. The
superior route will he wanted. The cost
OF these will be two or three times the
Sl0,0 900 Even though the road were not
to be built the right of way and surveys
would be the property of subscribers, and
not of the railroad company. This they
would have for the road when it would
come-for that a railroad is bound event.
ually to come to Tucson from the north is
as certain as day and night; as has been
said many times, Phoenix is no place to
build railroad and then stop.
The people of Florence are very anxious
that the railroad should be built; 1t would
be the salvation of their country, opening
its products OF agriculture and giving it
market easily accessible with the outside
world. They further have great wealth of
mines in the districts about there, and the
shipping of ore, now impractcable owing
to the cost of hauling would then be
paying and large source of income.
The subscriptions of the $40, 900 may be
apportioned as follows: