Rocky Ford enterprise., 1902-11-28
Denver. Nov. :i.-The Republican in

Articles OF incorporation VI thc wv
orado, Arizona & Gulf Railroad Com
pany, the Southwestern Fuel a. Iron
Company, the Gage National Reduction
Company, and the Bear Creek Mining
& Reduction Company Will be MED
within a few weeks. Their aggregate
capitalization will be $50. 100000. which
il said to have been subscribed. The
four corporations will develop and fur-
nish transportation to new areas or
southwestern Colorado. northwestern
New Mexico. southeastern Utah. ana
central Arizona. Denver VIII furnish
supplies for vast territory with great
natural resources. The route between
this city and the Pacific coast as
planned would be $50 miles shorte.
than any other railway projected or
already In operation.
The railroad Is generally claimed to
be a Gould project which Will. when
completed. furnish western outlet
for the Missouri Pacihc-Denvcr a. Rio
Grande systems. and also for Gould's
Texas Pacific system. The route Will
extend almost In direct line from
Denver southwesterly to San Pedro
harbor, on the coast OF southern Cali
fornia. The coordinate corporations
are expected to develop the coal beds
In the sections through which the rail-
road Will pass. utilize the iron deposits
which have lain dormant for lack of
transportation facilities. and also open
up the richest goid-bearing sections OF
Colorado and southeastern Utah.
/ Charles II. Gage. who has been one
OF the chief promoters OF the COM
bIned enterprises. returned from the
East few weeks ago. and announced
that he had been promised NIL the as
sistance required. There is no doubt.
he says. that each one OF the enter
prIses will be innusurated early next
year and carried through without de-
lay.
Some Of the best finnncicrs OF the
East. he says. are Interested In the
companies. including. In addition to
the Gould railroad representatives, j.
I y. Krepps OF Pittsburs. general western
representative OF Douglas. Lacy 4 Co.
New York bankers: George G. Carson
OF PittsburH. inventor OF the Carson
process for the manufacture OF steel
and many timcs n millionaire: 7. Y.
I shonts of Chicago. president of the IL
IinoIs, Indiana 4 Iowa Railway Com
pany. md also heavily interested In
eastern and middle states railways.
Charles L. Mcconnell. president of the
| Smcltcr City Bank Of Durango. Colo
rado. In Interested In the companies.
together with other capitalists who
have been holding coal and Iron lands
In the southwest for many years. cher
ishing the hopc that some day they
might develop them.
Most Of the capital has been pledged
In the East. says Gage. and title has
been acquired to many acres OF the
best coking coal land In the vicinity OF
Durango. southeastern Utah ana
northeastern New Mexico. to thou
sands OF acres of the superior timber
OF the Mogoilon section of Arizona.
and to the vast Iron deposits In south
crn and central Utah. Much OF the lat
ter In manganese. having no peer any
where in the United States.
/ The new railroad as planned VIII
commence. on the northeastern end. Mt
/ Crccdc. follow tine Rio crandc to Its
head. and there open up the Bear
Creek mining district. The principal
camp In the district will be known ns
Gold Ciin. This section carries I'm
mcnscly rich deposits OF tcllurium ores.
but the values have been lost In smclt-
Ing processes. The deposits lay DOR
mant except for spasmodic Efforts
made by poor prospcctors to make
them pay. which were unsucccssful
partly on account OF the inacccssibility
OF the district and partly because there
were no known processes for saving
the gold values. Leaving the head of
Bear creek the new line will strike the
head of the Nniiccita. on the contincn-
tai divide OF the San Juan range. and
following this stream have water
level route, forty-Hvc miles to Du-
range.
% From Durango south the road will
follow the Apimus river to the june
4 ton OF that stream with the San Juan.
! affording railroad facilities TO the rich
agricultural anu fruit-Erowing region
OF Pennington. New Mexico. md Mon
tczumn county. Colorado.
In the vicinity of Pennington will
be located the steel plant OF the South
western Fuel and Iron Company. TO
be built on the most modern plans and
| to utilize process for the manufacture
| OF steel which Is the sole property OF
its inventor. George c. Carson. These
| patents are said to enable manufac-
turer to produce steel and iron prod
| ucts, given the natural resources cheap
4 ly, for one-half the cost OF making the
same articles by any Of the processes
used at Pittsburg or any other steel
works in the world.
Following the San Juan river west
ward. the new road is to have n branch
into the iron fields Of Utah, which is to
furnish the Pennington plant with
raw products. The main line will con-
tinuc almost directly through central
Arizona, opening n country about 100
miles south OF the santa Fe road and
! 100 miles north of the Southern Pacific.
rich in gold. silver and copper deposits.
| Thence to &C San Pedro harbor.
through soutaern California, the coun-
try along the route is well populated.
A line also will be constructed run
ming southeast from the main line to
Clifton. Arizona, tapping en- route n
territory having magnificent gold re-
sources. all of which are to be treated
at the plant of the new corporation
known as the Gage National Reduc-
tion company.
One of its ore reduction plants will
be at Durango for the low-grade ores
of the Southwest. The Gage chemical
electrolytic process will be used. A
similar Gage process plant will be
erected at Silverton. anotheri in the Bear
Creek or what will be known as the
Gold Cliff section. and another in Dem
yer. The latter is to include complete
appliances for refining gross bullion
and recovering the rare metals which