Graham guardian., 1899-02-17

San Carlos river to the mouth o
Also Creek, and over the Pima
summit to the town Of Glsbe, Ari
zona--a place at present of be
tween 1000 and 5000 people.
The commencement of the sur
vey was in 1892 and construction
of the Gila Valley, Globe and
Northern Railway dates back only
to February, 1894. The company
originally consisted of Mr.. William
Garland, president; Mr.. u. A. Cut.
ter, vice.president; Mr.. A. G. Laird,
secretary and treasurer; Mr.. Geo.
b. Fox. chief engineer; and board
OF directors consisting of Mr.. Julius
Lieberman, Mr.. l. e. Solomon, of
Solomorville, Arizona, in addition
to the enumerated officers, most all
Of whom reside in Los Angeles
Mr.. Geo. B. Fox has since died
and is succeeded by Russell Chase.
The road4eaving Bowie, Ari-
iona, Its Southern Pacific connec-
ton, reaches SolomonviIle (named
after I. E. Solomon, one of the
early promoters of the road) a
town of about 800 inhabitants and
the county seat of Graham county.
| Solomonville is very wealthy
town of its size, and largely in
terested in mining and is quite a
supply point. The town of SAT-
ford, five miles distant, has some
1900 inhabitants and is also sup
ply station for several mines and
is growing city. 1t is the largest
town in the entire valley, and the
principal industries of its inhabI.
tants being agriculture and stock
raising. Its close proximity to the
Lone Star mining district, but ten
miles north of the towR, and the
sa awmilis situated in the Graham
mountains south Of the town,
rather constitute it as trade cen.
ter. The country Immediately sur
rounding Stafford is well adapted
to grazing and raising alfalfa in
large quantities and sustains vast
herds of cattle.
The towns Of Thatcher and Gen.
tran were built by early settlers
from Utah. Farther down the
valley is Pima, also q prosperous
Mormon town of about 1900 people.
Fort Thomas, place of 800 IN
is maintained chiefly by
the stock interests and mining ,
districts of Spenazuma and the
Grand Reef.
The agency of the Apache In.
dams Is established at San Corlos
where the Apaches, composed of
less than 5000 in number, are man
aged and their rations issued to
them by their agent, a genial and
able officer, Captain Henry Ritzins
of the Twenty-ffth United States
Infantry. This feature does not
detract from the well-doing of the
town commercially, it maintaining /
its quota of the business.
The city of Globe, the line ter.
minal, has some 1000 to 5000 in
and is situated in the
midst of an lmmence copper min
ing district. The principal copper
producers are the Old Dominion
Copper Mining and Smelling Com.
pany, owned by New York and
Boston capitalists, and company
known as the United Globe mines,
equally as extensive as the Old ;
Dominion, and owned by Phelps,
Dodge & Co. large metal dearlers
Of New York city. Globe is the
county seat of ella county and is
the base of supplies for all the up. ,
per Salt River country and towns
of Catalpa, Armer, Tonto, Rye,
Payscn, Pine, Strawberry, Rayner,
Young, Gentry, Newton, Sloans,
McMiltonvllle and Champion.
Globe promises to be one of the
leading commercial as well as min.
ing points of the territory. The
class of people constituting its,bet-
ter growth are men of enterprise
and thrift, as well as means. It's
location and surroundings repros
porous and well-to-do, and with
the natural advancement will draw
largely upon the agricultural as
well as mining interests of the 10.
calIty.
Extensive preparations are be-
ing made to develope the Black
Warrior copper mine, situated at
Lost Gulch, nine miles from the
town of of Globe, and q narrow
guage railroad is to be bullt from
the Black Warrior mine to Globe
az a means Of transportation for
their ores and machinery. The
Continental mine is another ex,en-
sive and promising property, Local
ed ia the Lost Gulch district. The
owners of this property are also
making arrangements to erect
machinery on il and develope it
very extensively.
The tramcar or bucket lines,
which were above alluded to, con