The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-24
AN EASTERN CONNECTION
The Central Arizona Railway
Company Wants to Join
the New Road.
FIVE OUTLETS IN THE EAST.
Offers to Be Made to San Fran
cisco, San Diego and
Salt Lake.

The Central Arizona Railroad Company
will probably in few days make bid for
connection with the San Francisco and
San JOAQUIN Valley Railroad, basing the
advocacy of their proposition on the fact
that theirs, being north and south line,
crossing five railroads east of the Sierras,
can give as many connections with the
East. and so solve the question of getting
competition in Eastern communities.
Wells Hendershott, who is the attorney
for the Central Arizona Railway Company
and for the Hudson Reservoir and Canal
Company of Arizona, allied corporations,
is in town, and will be followed on Satur-
day by ex-United States Senator John
Martin of Kansas, who is the president of
the canal company. Their mission here is
to see what can be done in the way of get
ting this city, either through the people
or the San Francisco and San Joaquin
Valley Railroad and the city of San Diego,
to join with their people and the people of
Salt Lake in putting the road through.
The road, as proposed, is to run from
Salt Lake down through the center of
Arizona to Nogales on the Mexican border,
forming there connection with the road
from that point down to Guaymas and
from the Superstition Mountains to Yuma.
The offers that will be made are in
definite as yet, but it is proposed that the
cities of Salt Lake, San Diego and San
Francisco be interested, and that in the
road San Diego represent one-tifth, San
Francisco one-ffth, Hudson Reservoir and
Canal Company one-fifth, the lumber in
terest one-fifth and Salt Lake one-tifth,
each having a representative in the board
of directors or possibly trustees to see that
each OF the different localities would be
represented in case it was for their interest
in the construction of the road.
Mr.. Hendershott said yesterday that the
question is being agitated in Salt Lake,
where they are anxious to get connection
with San Diego, and that the matter would
soon be brought to the attention of the
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and
the San Diego Board of Trade, San Diego
of all cities in the State being most inter
ested in getting competition in Eastern
connections.
Speaking yesterday of the proposed road,
Mr.. Hendershott said:
That the railway company is matter of the
most Importance to the Pacific Coast will be
readily seen by reference 70 the maps. the
reference to which, and the present condition
OF affairs, show that the coast mas always Deen
subservient to the Southern Pacific Railway
Company. 1t will he seen that by the building
of road from Salt Lake to Nogales and from
the Superstition Mountains to Yuma that an
outlet OF the coast may be had with i've dit-
ferent railroads now in active operation con-
meeting with the East II the San JOAQUIN
Valley Railroad could connect with this north
and south road it would seem that it was
matter of more than ordinary Importance TO
not only the city of San Francisco, but San
Diego snd Los Angeles well. This road
would give direct connection with the Union
Pacific, Denver and Rio Grande, Chicago and
Rock Island, Atlantic and Pacific and the st.
Louis and san Francisco, which will probably
be built from the Indian Territory into Albu-
querque (Which is in fact the Atlantic and Pa
eific), thus, giving the San Francisco and San
Joaquin Valley Railroad the advantage of
situation could they intersect this road from
Salt Lake 70 Nogales.
tits well-known fact that the people of San
Diego and the people Of San Francisco have
heretofore been handicapped with reference TO
Eastern roads having terminus on the coast.
The question would therefore be as to whether
the building of this road from Salt Lake to
Nogales and from the Superstition Mountains
TO Yuma would be of benefit to the coast.
As to the question whether the Central Ari-
IONA Railway Company would construct its
road over and upon route that would be
paying one, we have only TO call your atten-
ton TO certain facts that now exist. Commenc-
ing from Mildred, in the Territory OF Utah, and
running from there to Lees ferry, the road
would necessarily traverse country con-
tanning large iron deposits, and these iron
deposits are said to be not excelled anywhere
to crossing Lees ferry, there is in addition to
the iron deposits extensive coal depositt sec
ond to none in the United States. Starting
south from Lees ferry and from Flagstaff, it
would traverse about eighty miles of virgin
forests the finest pine tim Der forest in its en-
tirety between the two oceans
This forest is an islandsof timber with tim
berless country for from three to five hundred
miles in all directions from Flagstaff, and it
must be the source of large supplies of that
variety TO the country and region which Is
geographically tributary to it.
The line of road already graded extends
through this timber country. branch line
Is contemplated to afford an outlet for the
products of the upper Verde Valley OF 100000
acres of arabic land. Also for the mineral out
put of the mountain range of undeyeloped
bodies one of which bodies is now said by
those having made personal investigation to
have $40, 600 900 worth OF copper ore in sight
The agricultural valley above mentioned and
the ore deposits would be source of immense
traffic.
Commencing from Flagstaff and running
south leaving the timber forest the line would
enter fertile region encircled by mountains,
traversed by running streams and capable of
raising every product OF the temperate zone
Gold and silver abound in the mountains.
ms road, running down to the Diversion
dam, as contemplated by the Hudson Reservoir
and Canal Company, 1900 feet above the
mouth OF the Verde, water power is created,
the largest in the West, and arrangements are
already made for the railroad to have facilities
with reference to this water power.
The 100, 900 acres OF land lying in the Salt
River Valley which is subject to entry under
the desert land act is being rapidly taken up
by persons desiring to locate upon the public
domain, and it is the opinion OF those con-
Versant with the matter that there will not be
one single acre OF it left unoccupied and
coming in under the irrigation enterprise of
the Hudson Reservoir and Canal Company
within two years; this, taken together with the
immense coal, iron and lumber interests viii
afford prospects unequaled by any other
contemplated railroad.