Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-05-29
BRADSHAW
 RAILROAD
 EXTENSION
GOVERNOR MURPHY ARRIVES IN PRES- corr ON A MISSION OF GREAT M- TORRANCE TO THE MINING FUTURE OF THIS SECTION.
He will Personally Inspect the rlineral Resources of the Sur veyed Route From rIayer to the Bradshaws, and Report on the AdvisabiIity of Tapping the Country With a Railroad.

The question of railroad extension
 to the famed Bradshaw region is talk
 ing course that is practicable, and
 whether or not that section is to be |
 linked with modern methods in trans |
 portation facilities will be definitely
 settled in the near future. Governor
 N. O. Murphy comes to Prescott for
 the purpose of making a per
 sonal examination of that section, its
 mines, it's timber or its general com-
 mercial interests, is in town, and with
 party of friends leaves on Tuesday
 on a mission of inspection of its re-
 sources. He will make the trip to
 the Crowned King and the Tiger
 by wagon and later on horse
 back, will touch every point and per
 sonally examine into the varied re-
 sources of that section, and report on
 the actual condition of that country
 with view to the early extension of
 the P. & E. railroad and the devel-
 opment of t he most prominent
 mining properties. Last year
 permanent survey line was run from
 Mayer to Crowned King. Since that
 work has been finished, nothing has
 followed of significant nature in the
 line of actual railroad building, or has there been any intimation of such ,,,,4.l ha ThoN hA is now taking tangible shape is a definite conclusion that the project is not to lapse, nor is there a waning interest in the enterprise.
 On the other hand, behind the out lay of a vast sum of money that must necessarily follow the building of this highway, there is the prominence of an industry that has grown step by step, and behind its progress there is the indisputable fact that railroad facilities have done more than even capital to place this industry in the prosperous condition it is today than has any other factor. In short it is the railroad that has solved the question of mining in Yavapai and to its influence must the credit be due. No matter whether a road is to be built in the face of a cancerous and demagogic resistance, that is treacher- ous in sentiment and backward in its aim, the present condition of our activity and the steady ad- of it to the prominence it enjoys today must be weighed through the beneficent and generous channels of law-making bodies, whether it be tax exemption or not. The sentiment of the entire country in and around Prescott today is strikingly exempli- fled in favor of this particular road building into the Bradshaws. In a nutshell, there is the same kindred re- gard for the Bradshaws today as pre- vailed years ago for our own city and its future destiny, by people who make up our existence, in mining as we'll as in other pursuits.
 The Bradshaw region from a min ing standpoint is far better on frmer foundation that any other sec tion of the west. From the earliest era of mining in Yavapai it has been regarded as the key to the as it were, and some of the richest and most productive mines in he history Of the country are to its ,redit. Its past life as a producer las had to give way, however, to the that faces all countries sooner or later-transportation facili- ies, the same question that kept Con- yress in the back ground for years, hat dwarfed the great United Verde, hat kept all of eastern Yavapai at a and for years gave to Pres ,ott itself disregardin permanency or 
 From mining standpoint we sin ,erely believe that a railroad to the 6radshaws will result in the develop nent of the greatest mineral empire n the union and the basis of our opin- on is founded on the knowledge of he vast number of mines lying dor nant, of low grade character, that cannot stand the expense of present of handling the output.
 Governor Murphy and his brother, F. NJ. Murphy, were the first men in Yavapai to encourage by word and leed the building of the $. F. P. x P. from the Atlantic & Pacific to Pres v ,ott, and their keen insight and can u lid representations of the possibilities of this then isolated section, were ater exemplifed by the extension of ihe system to the south, building up q )f slumbering industries, giving to the country ill short a reminiscent regard co that the past grasps hands with the tv present in faithfulness and devotion. st
 We sincerely trust that Gov. Mur- h, Dhy may see the old Bradshaws as :. others believe it to be. If his judg- II nent should be in favor of the ex- re tension of the road, Yavapai will close di one of the gaps in its active mining r, era that the old as well as the new o, has been patiently waiting for for a generation. UT