Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-06-25
BRADSHAW RAILWAY
It Will Open a Mineral Section in Area and Wealth Without
 an Equal in Arizona.
Under Modern Conditions in Trans pOrtatiOn Facilities if Should
 be An Inviting Center.

The building of the Bradshaw rail road is being energetically pushed, and as it progresses to the goal there comes from the section it is to redeem expressions of good will that are sim ply devotion. None appreciate more keenly the building of this road than do the men who are there today and have been for a generation. They know, and well does the average min ing man, that that particular section is a network of mineral. Without In the least attempting to detract from any particular locality, it must be acknowledged however that the Brad shaw region is today, and has been from the earliest period in Arizona mining, generally considered as the most inviting mineral zone in Arizona if not in the west.
 In the early history of Yavapa mining it was generously favored with capital, but the inevitable ques- ton of transportation facilities crushed it, and with few exceptions, where fabulously rich ground was de- veloped, it has passed into obscurity almost as a steady producer.
 In early railroad subsidy legisla- ton that section was especially pro- vided for, and to those who remem- Der, they will recall the sentiment and generosity of the people Of Yavapai when, as a unit, over twenty years ago, they passed a measure ap- propriating a million dollars for rail road communication to that section from the line of the Southern Pacific.
 It has been consistently maintained that had the Bradshaws been better situated and possessed of those topo- graphical conditions to make rail road a feasible project, it would long ago have been linked to modern transportation facilities, and, accord ingly be progressive and wealth di- vision of the county. Today, the building of this railroad is attended with responsibilities and burdens very few know of and care to appre- ciate. It Is, even under modern and advanced conditions of construction, gigantic and expensive enterprise. This, however, only makes that sec tion all the more prominent in rating its wealth, and in ultimately placing Its properties in a channel of activity it could not otherwise have enjoyed.
 The railroad has been the salvation of mining in Yavapai, and wherever it has reached a district there has followed in every instance nothing but capital and development.
 It is so today on the Big Bug, on Lynx creek, to the west and south of Prescott, and it will be doubly SC along the new road and in the Brad. shaws. It is indisputable, in short that where the railroad goes there follows mines and mining in every sense that these terms imply. Can cerous sentiments of political sand baggers may viciously and vehe mently try to poison and strike dowr men and the interests of those who are beckoning the railroad on, witf political spleen and personal spite al a basis of their villainy, but the fac remains nevertheless that the meI who were originally behind railroad tax exemption, or any liberal subsid, for such, are those who today ar' either in the Bradshaws or allied tt it in interest. A sentiment tha would deprive these people of the re gard others are enjoying, is despica ble. The road is going to the Brad shaws, and that magnificent regiol will no longer be repudiated.