Arizona republican., 1896-05-19
SANTA FlG CONNECTIONS
Double Train Service to
 the North.
How a Heavy Days Business
 Was Handled.
President Murphy Speaks Concern- ing Valley Traffic and Rail-
 way Extension.

"Wednesday evening a double tratrn service will be huaalgurated on tber Santa Fe, Prescott &I Phoenix "a 'lwag, to accommodate the traffic under the new train schedule of the Atlantic B Pacific. No change will be made 1u the time schedule of the passenger train that leaves here at 9:45 a. ln, re- turning at 4:10 p. m., end which makes close connection with the westboun1 main lime trafns. Tue new train will leave about 8 D. m., reaching Ash Fork early next morning in time for close connection with the eastbou1d tra rg on the A. & F., making the journey t5 Chicago in the speedy dime of thre1 days. Returning, the new t1ain will leave Ash Fork in the evening, bring ing the eastern passengers and arr.v- ing in Phoenix in the morning.
 This double train service will be 8 very boon to travel, giving the quick est of conn eaf3A with the nor helu ter GTtOry and with tflo east. One esp9- cially excellent feature is the fact that both sets of trains ,w:ii.l carry mail and express matter, bringing in the eastern mali just twenty-four hours ahead of the time at pre- elt, and admitting Of tlhe rapid transit of fruits and vegetables from the valley ! to the northern and eastern m3rke s.t The Santa Re, Pr'escn & Phoenix s just nov undergoing an experience of rushing blsiness Cattle shipments. nro -t, 1> >ccrt,, IS rushed to market end on, top of tn S a-nd fhe regular business came ilts, hauling of the Ws1!ace circus from Ash Fork. The 5ab was a heavy ons. fn he two 1trafls Neus twenty five CT aas esrs, aquivalsit 10 six y ordinary coaches. Several e5ss To cars gre eigd1 V feet n tsallstil 1sli lcst of them exceed a!S-y feet, yet ra> / !.are taken saf " and swiftly over ta.lE Heavy grades a8t around the ahlarp cErves of the line, without nais'a9p o;hes than a solitary no. box, IFS shs htsst equipped train: l l ever handled ''; g}id a railroad -en. ginear yesterday, s,f'1t was quppaT* with the latest ceYp,ers and air con- trtva1ees and was bandled as easily ass would have ,been ainlf a. dozen Pul}-- mans" Five engines of the local roaH l were in service pulail2 tl1e trains. each locomotive being a ten-wheaf Brooks, 1s-inch cylindar. With the trains came President E. M. Murphy and Assistant Gener,i Man- ager We,Is sn4, Trafnana ster G.l1is. Mir. Murphy's visit is probably the last for several montaAs ea,s he goes east in a few days to atte.a 10 t!,n bus ness CT his conpamy at e1.f Chicago offices. At Ash Fork he w52 Yro5aS.y join the. party of Vtee-PI-es:'le1t Mor on Of .hs main Santa Fe system. "TAe Santa Fe people" Eaid NE. Murphy yesterday, "are much fn'terested in the develop nlens of f9hts Sat lt:yer valley sl11 ara doing all they ean D stimulate irnnIi- grafton and anvar.1,e1t. Of cou5Sa 1 Mr. Robinson, the fgsi vtce-presidert, always has been a fgs.a t1l.end of ArE- zoIa, and he k, hAing ably sided by President Ripley. ! aawe Eatery had D ii91teF from the geDssaf paEs3nger t1raf- ftc manager Ct klhe systenl, W. F.. White. He tells B1a rsllat The travel to. this poInt next fa'i will be wihoui precedent and that inquiries are aa- ready being made for fraElspor ation at ina. lime. The serss-.1rl -rl Phoenix ff t>le irrigation congress next win. eT
 
 VIII be one Of the kraa'te5t pf drawing cards.
 -T[h,ere Us 0ne puiIat 0E, which think you Phoenix psop-e are lsx" con inusf MT. Murphy, "and that is in your faii- ure to take the market cf northern Arizona for yoHlr dairy produce and vegetables. Tha:e irtc,es are pro- duced here in superior gtleaity to any where else in the west, and yet even 11 Presc sciott and Congress we find Cal;for-- mia strawberries and Kansas butter. both inferior in quality. cannot seq | amy reason for this state of affairs. If there is not enough raised in the va.- ley, then ot surety there is need Of more product, if Phoenix is io take the profit that must come from supply ing the market of the northern Ari- zoma ty0wns"
 MT. Murphy was fnterrogated ra- speoting the survey nov being made by Major G. W. Vaughn tor the Santa Fe from Victor, near San BsrnardinD, eastward into Arizona He coaId throw nc light on the subject. and bT,- lieves it is simply en fmVe5t.gaion for a feasible route sGro9lTd, through any circumstances, the Santa F9e fa'l to' retain tha At,antic & Paa fic "The' projected road is over an entirely feas- il1e route, . said he, 'famld YCHIld strike , the Santa Fe, Prescott x Phoenix at or near Congress ssttaiiipn, thence us:Gg olIa' line into Phoenix"
 Ice erean arlI strawberry festival at CStanTij0pr,s Ilc9rl a,,fTrs,7erpinsr this evorn