Bisbee daily review., 1903-05-05
DOUGLAS RAILWAY
 IS EXTENDING
FORCE OF MEN AT WORK LAYING
 TRACK ON RAILWAY AVENUE.
Are Surveying Pietie Addition--Psrty
 Of Capitalists Makes Trip to Cos, Mexico. After Railroad Surveyors.
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 Of the Douglas street railway is begin ming to look nke a stern resliU. This lmornixg g force of workmen under Foreman J. P. Richardson are laying srack from fhe railraad crossing along Railfoad avenue. All the material is on hand w5th which to build to the new Copper Queen store HH c and Tenth. Later. tbse road will be ex- tended soeth on Geto Agua Prieta and the bull ring, and from there westerly tC the Nscozari depot at -Agua Prie1a The presen extension will be welcomed by the shelter workmen. who now naye to walk the three blocks intergen- ing between the present terminus and .G avenue. MT Richardson. who has charge of the work, has been win the E. P. & s. W. and superintended the construction of 4be Tombstone branch.
 R. L. Hogue, civil engineer. wrfh a 'big force of assistants Hnd chain men. started today 1o survey and plai the 1Pirtle addition, north of town. This -new real estate movement is probably -the most important one in Douglas of recentaimes. The Pirtle addition will furnish an opportunity to the hundreds of sIneiter employees to secure home, and will have a tendency to draw builnfng activity in a northwssterly direction. It Is understood that a part of MT. Pirtle's plans Is 10 furnish gratis. for one year, water supply 10 ali purchasers and hume builders on the new Pirtie tract. A year from today will find some Of the prettiest cottage homes in Douglas in that sec- tion.
 special train left Douglas for Ccs Sudae morning, returning in the even ing. The specials mission was os- iens5Dly to bring to Cos the engineers who will lay nut the grade for he Ma cczarl exten1on. But the presence of party of prominent men on the zra1n indicates tnz1 more than the engfnesrs took observations In the party who refurned were ". H. Brouhv manager of ths Copper Queen store at Bisbes; C. E Mills, smelter superin- tendent for tae Copper Queen al Mo renci: James Douglas, president of the NacozarIaa ailroad. znd SuperiuteIl- dent Logan The white flag train re- turned at o'clock.
 This morning William Crook. of Dormant & Crook. left for Cos with the first Of his men, who will will start lis camp on the extension of the Nacozari road from Cos to Nacozari. Josh Chadwick, one of the best known grad ing foremen in the west. went along, and VIII oversee the work. He w7R also have charge of the grading gangs soon to be pat on. Mir. Crook was seen in regard Tto the time of starting the extension. but could not state pos itively just when work would com. smence. Said he: We are waiting or the Mexican government officials at present Whenever they say the word, we will be ready. We will put on as many gangs and establish as many camps as is practical, and we estimate l. will take about six months active work to finish the contract" The firm of Dormant & Crook is prob ably the best known railroad contract ing irm in the southwest. They are at present engaged in builaing the Forrest-Naeo branch for the E. p. & s. " James B. Dormant, senior mem ber Of the firm. is ex-governor of Col orado. He left for the Naeo work thls nle-ning.
 Louis A. Hohstadt was a passenger on the southbound Cos train this morning. and bound for the Pro9iden-, eia mine. Mr. Hohstadt, before leav- ing, passed large loa1 of camp sup plies to the Mexican side. At lasf ad- vice from the Providencia. they ex- pected to reach the 100-foot level in forty days from time cf starting. or by May 2oth. As soon as the hundred level is reached. crosscutting and drift ing will be started, and the magnitude of the vein determined.
 Work on the bull ring at Agua Prieta is progressing finely Your correspondent took trip over to the pueblo Sunday and found that the re- ports of progress had been under esIhna1ed- It looked as if the big wall of the ring would certainly be finished by Tuesday or "Wednesday at the latest Piles of timbers and jolsts showed that the carpenters had not been asleep. As soon as the adobe ring is finished. the work of erecting the amphitheater and grand stand will be pushed to completion. The ring is not so near the line as the writer had supposed but is situated well abreast Of the pueblo. and at it's ex- treme easterly limit
 The formal organization of the Pres byterian church took place Sunday.
 At the inquest held today to inquire into the cause of death of g. D. Palmer. the man who was fatally injured at the Calumet smelter on Saturday last, the jury found that death was due to hem