Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-02-23
ON TO MORALES
The Prospects for the North and
 South Railroad.
Phoenix Raising Her Subscription The Outlook Along the Line-Why
 the sIO.OOO is Wanted.

The sl0.0O0 wanted of the citizens c
 Maricopa, PiDal and Pima countie,, fo the survey of ths nor and south roa' to Noeales, is not fJr 1he sl0 00 itself 90 much a< ibe fuitliment Of promise
 made by Mr. Murphy to bis capitalists
 The Sl0,0v0 IS the merest bagatelle t
 the amount to be expended. Franl
 Murphy is not in Phoenix, but hi
 brother, the irrepressible Oskes, 1 found
 Gov. Murphy said the situation was a
 given in the foregoing. His brother
 the hard worker and promoter of the en
 tsrprise, had been assured months ago
 before any attempt at subscription wal
 made, that the slO,OO0 wanted for tn,
 survey, could be easily and cheerfulIy
 raised. The proposition afterward.
 came back from the vsrIous expected 1 sources of subscriptions that they
 would pay for the survey when the rail.
 road came" to their respective towns. This was not what was wanted. The sum for the survey had been assured. On the strength of this MT. Murphy told his capitalists 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 could then be put through with promptness and despatch. This promise had been laid before the capitalists, and MT. Murphy, man O: his uord, wanted to see it done.
 The capitalists will be here shortly on the com mpietiou of the road to Phoe- nix. What MT. Murphy desires is to have the surveys ready 10 hand over to them, ready for the furthering of the road to Gala oasss. This he wants as a conservative business msL, to make the showing as favorable as possible. That done, the railroad mhy confidently be expected to go th: o::Gb.
 THEY MEA:: BUSINESS.
 That they meHn uusiness Is already de- monstrated. Gov. Murphy says that in addition to tne rHiis to Phoenix thirty more mics at the favorable figures ob- talned were ordered, conditional on the road gong forward as was then expect ed, in view of the promises made by the people along the lIue of the proposed road. Now IL Is certain that the compa ny do not want to build thirty mIles out in the desert and then stop.
 Gov. Murphy further says that tte subscriptions may be considered good gamble, If nothing nore. The surveys will be made by the compeuy's engin eers, and 1t IS not likely that, once un- der way, they will stop with single line. The superior route will be want ed. The cost of these will be two oc three times the Sl0,000. Even though the road were not to be built the right of way and surveys would be the prop erty of the subscribers. and not of tn. railroad company Fms they would nave for the road when 1t would come fir that a railroad Is bound eventuEllY to come to Tucson from the north is as cerrain as day and night; as has ben sad mply ,imes, PhoenIX Is DO place to buiid b rsIlroao anu theL stop.
 The packers of the new rsIlroad arc men of great means. They should hay
 he proposition laid before them as fay Urably Hs can be honorably done.
 SUBSCRIPTIONS ALONG HE LINE.
 To-day 1 met Mr. Hammond, leadlny citizen Of Florence. He says that the people of Florence are very anxious that the railroad should be built; 1t wOuJd De the salvation of their country, oIer- Ing it's products of agriculture and LIyIng # market easily accessible with the outslue world. They further have great wealth of mines, in the districts about there, and the shipping of ore, now
 mpractic8ble wing to the cost of haul ing, would then be paying and large source If income.
 He says the people there are like tire Tucsonltes were-willing to contribute OF the arrival of the road, but not pre- pared to make any ''down" payments de expects to talk with Mir. Murphy on his arrival here, and it is much to be hoped that the outcome will be that at Florence they will do as Tucson hal so commendably done and as Nogsles is expected to do.
 Maricopa county now has under way subscriptions for their S3750 of the sl0,0O0. In Maricope their feeling to- ward the new road is the kindliest. The company has never asked anything of them, and has opened to them region that will be of vast income. Now that they have been asked to go into their pockets for the road to another direction they may be expected to respond prompt ly. In fact the promise has been made of getting the Phoenix subscription in two hours. Two local men of wealth and enterprise offered to contribute Sl00 each, and may further GO the work of obtaibing the r,st.
 Phoenix will get immediate returns on that investment. Here they already know tne value of having railroad camps adjacent to town, with the men coming in and expending thelr earnings. So, too, will the case be 6s the town ap- proaches other points on the road. l was iu Mesa early this week. Up there iS is tho same old spirit of anxiety for the road. All wanted to see 1t come and said they needed it above every thing else. to give them cheap connec- tion with the markets of the world. As that was before Tucson had showed l what could be done there for road. subseriptions were not them much l talked for Mesa. However the people
 heir are well-to-do and enterprising, l and above all realize the importance of the road for their own interests. They | can therefore re relied on to do their share towards the subscription. and manfully.
 What is said of Mesa will apply almost equally to Tempe. At that point they
 have ths Maricope & Phoenix, the service of which is entirely satisfactory, but what town d"es not want all the l railroads obtainsble? They are great fOlks to boom themselves, those Tempe people, and they will probably do their sh are soon.
 The subscriptions of the Sl0, 900 may be aprortioned about as follows: Noeales es.,......... -...s oOO sucSOD Oi'O Florence and Pinal county points. 25OO Moo 1950