El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-03

To the Chamber of Commerce and
Businessmen of Ell Paso:
| attended a meeting of the chamber
of commerce on the 10th of this month
and there heard the representative
businessmen of Ell Paso discuss the
freight rates of FL Paso. The meet
ing was large and enthusiastic one:
the pluck. push and courage displayed
by the businessmen of the chamber of
commerce was of a sort never seen in
Ell Paso before
| have been all over the southern
part of New Mexico and Arizona |
know the country and the people and
have talked with most of the leading
men of the territory. know how
they feel toward Ell Paso and | hear
many encouraging expressions about
the grand work of the chamber of COM
merce in opening up the resources of
the southwest, and in nearly every
town that | have visited | am congrat-
ulated on this work.
Now. gentlemen. as to the westbound
freight rates. you have to face stub
born facts. You have but one railroad
leading into the territories whose trade
you wish to secure and that is the
Southern Pacific. You are all bust uess-
men of wide experience and you know
that when any individual has the i'm
mortal cinch it is mighty hard to
make him let go. You cannot help re-
aliZing how a big corporation would
hold on to that same cinch.
Carefully look over the map printed
with this article and you will see at
glance what is the remedy and the
only permanent remedy for Ell Paso's
present condition.
| admit it is a good plan to start
the ball rolling and the four or five
thousand dollars you would eXpend in
making the effort to secure western
rates would be well spent if for no
other reason than to let the people of
the southwest know that Ell Paso is
willing to spend her money by the
thousands to be brought into closer
business relations with them.
| know you all realize it will be a
long fight to get the western rates
and why not while you are making
this fight start in and do everything
in your power to bring about the con-
struction of the Ell Paso & Bisbee rail-
road?
This road can be built for less mon
av in, hA
west.
1t will run through valleys. two
thirds of the way from here to Bis
bee and there are valleys also in which
to build her feeders from Globe to the
main line and also from Lordsbury
to the main line.
The main line would follow the old
survey of the New Mexico & Arizona
Valley railroad survey many years ago
The road is graded by the Bisbee
Copper company to Silver Creek gap
from Bisbee east nearly twenty-five,
miles. and from this point it will run
in southerly direction direct to Ma
cosari. Part of this line would be a
part of the main line to the coast go
ing through the big coal fields in Old
Mexico.
Very few people know that there is
southwest of Nacosari an immense coal
field of both anthracite and bitumi-
nous. | met Professor Dumble who is
in the employ of the Southern Pacific
and he tells me that there are thous-
ands of acres not taken up. The
Southern Pacific has taken four or five
thousand acres for it's own use. Prof
Dumble was former state geologist of
Texas and his statement can he relied
on as true.
This coal field is ineXhaustible. 1t is
forty miles in length and thirty to
forty miles in width. its veins are
six TO seven feet in thickness and there
are two places opened up in one of
which the vein is IL feet and in the
, other sixteen feet of as pure. clean