Arizona republican., 1899-03-31
PRESCOTT & EASTERN RAILROAD.

This road is branch or auxiliary line of the Santa Fe, Prescott ( Phoe- nix Railway company, it's operating junction with the main line being Prescott, and the junction of the tracks among the rocks six miles noTthWa d from Prescott. Its southeastern ter minus is Mayer station, one Of the landmarks of the old Black canyon mail line from Phoenix to Prescott. This point is on Big Bug creek, in Big Bug mining district, twenty-six miles by rail from the junction and thirty two miles from Prescott.
 From P. & E. Junction, which is but a level place blasted from the rocks, the road runs for mile among the huge boulders, leaving them by d pass which seems to have been desi igned for the purpose; thence follows Lonesome and Agua Fria valleys to the old Bow CTS ranch, one of the best known places in northern Arizona, thence over the divide along an exceptionally rough, mountainous country to the valley of the Big Bug, half a mile or so below the Boggs pOstoffice, and then follows the creek among the placer mines to it's present terminus, Mayer.
 This company is comprised of the same men, with same board Of direct
 
 line. The progressive and energetic gentlemen who had originated the greater enterprise and seen the rapid development that quickly followed were not slow to see that in order to increase that development another feeder must be constructed, and thaI they must be the leaders. Knowing the resources of the country lying to the east of the BradshaWs it was de- termined to bring them to the notice of strangers by making them acces- sible by rail. The new road reaches the center of one of the best mining districts in Arizona, and is very near to the old producers, the Little Jessie, McCabe, Henrietta, Boggs, Dividend, Silver Bell. Blackberry, Poland, Sterl- ing and others, and is equally avail able to the new properties just coming to the front, namely, Gopher, Red Rock, Lotta, Anna, and Butternut. Among other promising properties may be noted the Slwindler, Montezuma, Red Jacket, those of the North Ameri- can Exploration company, on the west slope of the Black Hills, and others too numerous to mention. 4 little farther away but still within the radius of territory reached by the new line is the famed Crowned King, the Gladi- ator, the Luke mine, Gold Note, nor must be forgotten the old Peck, Reli- able, the Buster and many others. The Copper Mountain properties are but seven miles from the terminus.
 The largest onyx bodies in the world :! are at Mayer, within stones throw Of | the station; while these quarries have | so far been disappointing to the pro- JectorS of the road, it is still believed i that they will eventually become an | important factor in it's traffic. Already | thousands of tons are quarried and 1 ready for shipment to the mills of the i east.
 The development of this section is like that of other parts, but jus5 well | begun, and the continued progress will | be advanced by the construction of other branches until there will be a railroad to every mining camp, and the and windings of it's lines on the map of Arizona will suggest the II: Gc R. G. of Colorado and the next twenty years of Arizona will be like the last twenty of Colorado.