The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05

projected to Globe. 1t Will probably never
! be built, however, since the contemplated
change of Southern Pacific route spoken
of above would supplant and make it use
less. Another projected road is an extern
sion of the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix
| This road contem plates building from
| Phoenix, its present terminus, to Gala
basas, via Tucson. This would displace
the lease the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe holds on the Southern Pacific lines
as the first-named road would bring ali it's
through Mexican traffic via Phoenix.
Verify it seems as in that olden time, all
roads lead to Rome. In other words,
passengers bound for Guaymas or Mexi-
lean points would be brought from Albu-
| querque, n. Mex, over the Atlantic and
Pacific to Ash Fork, Ariz., thence over the
Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix, via Pres
colt, Phoenix, Florence and Tucson, and
thence again over the New Mexico and
Arizona to Nogales, and thence over the
Mexican line owned by the Atchison,
| Topeka and Santa Fe to Guaymas. This
would materially affect the Southern
being far shorter and decidedly more
pleasant.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad will
also enter Arizona in the near future, the
| line having already been surveyed. This
! line Will run from Durango, Colorado,
|
| tlons-thus securing all Government sup
! plies intended for those reservations-to
Flagstaff, Arizona, where it will absorb
| the Flagstaff and Southern, running thence
down Tonic Greek, across Tonic through
the Salt River Valley to Phoenix.
From Phoenix the San Diego, Yuma and
Phoenix Railroad will run via Yuma,
Ariz., to San Diego, Cal. This road
is already an entity, the survey having
been made, Sc, 000,0 600 of capital stock hav-
ing been subscribed, officers elected and fif-
teen miles OF road built from the San
Diego end. This will enable the Denver
and Rio Grande to reach the coast. The
full value of this road to Phoenix and Ari-
iona can hardly be contemp plated, as it
opens the Southern California markets to
the wares of the New Southwest. Truly
the day of the Southern Pacific is over, for
with the competition that will result from
the building of these many roads rates
will go down until monopoly is dead.
A survey has also been made for build
ing the Rio Grande Western from Marys-
vile, Utah, to Flagstaff, AriZ. This eX-
tension would tap vest mining country
OF untold richness and open Utah mar
ket. 1t would also prove a great scenic
| route, as the line crosses the Grand Can
yon of the Colorado at Lees Ferry, the
only place it can be crossed, and its most
picturesque point. In that portion of the
road which runs from Flagstaff to the
Grand Canyon, James A. Fleming, we'll
known California capitalist, is largely in
| terested.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
! also contemplates entering Arizona. The
survey for this road has been made from
Liberal, Hans, via Albuquerque, n. Mex, to
| the headwaters of the Salt River, down the
Salt River Valley to Phoenix. The Denver
and Rio Grande, the Rio Grande Western
and the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific
I have q haS
| contemplated extensions mean nothing
more or less than that they are seeking an
outlet to the Pacific Coast. To further
this end they would use the San Diego,
| Yuma and Phoenix, in which projected
road all of them are financially interested.
There is brilliant future awaiting this
geological garden" over here southeast of
the Sierra Nevadas; the bright day of
/ prosperity has already begun to dawn the
eastern horizon is already overcast with
| the rosy CLEAN OF brighter days. But, like
| all the newer States and Territories Ari-
IONA, for her future, must depend largely
upon her railroads. Capital should en-
| counter no obstacles, for when the rails of
| cleaning steel thread the mountain gorges
! wherein are hid the goodly stofes of
copper and lead, coal and iron, sill
! yer and gold-whel they span the
/ canyons where the swift waters rush
! between the walls of granite and sandstone,
onyx and marble-when they traverse the
valleys where the husbandman finds guer-
! don meet his daily toil-where the butter
/ flies sip the honeyed tide of the alfalfa
! bloom-where the bearded heads of golden
grain nod with old-fashioned courtesy as
! though thanking the hedgling for his
! rhyme-where the golden orange CLEANS IN
the eternal sunshine-where the sleek-fed
kline Craze in meadows green, this land of
sunshine and forgotten history will count
onward and upward; and when it does
San Francisco shall have just cause for re-
| ioicing, for the Golden Gate, where the