Arizona republican., 1903-02-25

| road community occupies an ideal site fer the central emporium Of Arizona, and such consummG ticn in the future : is by no means impossible as it lies at the gateway between the mountain barriers that separate the upper DOT ton of the territory from the lower, with ground as level as billiard table and just far enough away from l the foothills, where the town of Cen gress is nestled to give it plenty of room to grow in. It truly lacks but one essential to make it some day a great city. That essential is water. But We are accustomed to want of water in Arizona and we are not dead yet. In fact it's a wonder that Sen ator Beveridge and other enemies of Arizona do not offer lack of water as a reason for our non-admittance to state hood. Perhaps there is similar lack iI the senate.
 But to return to our other advan- tages as a perfect site for large and constantly growing business popula- ton. railroad striking west from here would open up the richest min eralized zone in the southwest. Within | twenty-five miles of this point there are mines already producing and many others only awaiting railroad trans portation to become producers and heavy customers of the transportation agencies. The miners all have faith in Frank Murphy. He has lived long enough as one of them to know what they want, and has given his brains and energy to solving the problems of opening up the mining districts in ! manner that would prove of equal benefit to both mines and railroads
 His method seems to have reduced it. self to this simple rule: Once let q dis trict or region prove that it can guar antee business for a railroad and the road or branch road will search ii out
 Nitness the upper Agua Fria and Big Bug country. and look at Mayer once q private house and road ranch. TOW almost q town. Without the P &, F. railroad it would still be asleep and so would q Gozcn more mines now giving employment to many men and building up prosperous and happy com munitica.
 The same transformation of a coun- try in answer to the whistle of q loco r;ctive is about to he witnessed in this . that stretches for 15O miles or more between the Hassayampa and the Colo rado will be dotted with prosperous mining camps within twelve months O: the coIEmc1cen?ent of railroad building in that section.
 l was talking with Dr. c. L. Geer the ether day in regard to our chances of getting the railroad and it's probable effects on the community. The doctor may easily be considered as the fore
 most citizen of the town having proved his faith in it's future by invest ing heavily here and also taking d Ifv- ing interest in the development of mines of the neishboring country. His interest in mining matters is proved by the fact that besides being president of the Arizona Gold company, whose holdings are mostly in the Harqua Hala mountains about twenty-five miles from the Junction, but he is also general manager of the Arizona De veiopment company and the Harqua
 Hala Mining and Milling company
 being also resident director of the two
 other companies.
 Why said the doctor. the comple- ton of railroad connection between : Congress Junction and the splendid . t'Siii.S5 il!i1-efdl TcSlO.lS lNlnS lnlneUl- ately to the west and southwest would
 bring about one of the most sudden and surprising transforma tions of a wide. unknown region that has been seen since the rush into the Black
 Hills, Dakota, and the action of the 5 santa Fe in bringing the new freight route into Congress Junction would at
 tract busy, prosperous population to . fn in faxN months
 Just look at tho tributary districts. '
 continued Dr. GeeT. In fact most of them can be seen from this point :. There is Rich Hill. the Octave and the H Antelope on the east, with a score of 2 adjacent mines; wonder, to the south | looms up NuituTe peak. the landmarI; ] of that famous gold deposit and all tic I ncighboring mines. the Orc Grande } the Sahuara, Trilby, White Cloud, Mid , dleton's, Amazon. Burscn's Constella- I ton and a score of others in the direc- ] tion of the White Picacho that sticks it's finger up far down in the south
 east. Then, i; you turn west the Har-
 cuVars loom up, whose craggy defles
 conceal hundred mines; the Granite
 wash range concealing the great Vel
 llngton property, and further south the
 Harqua Hala range marks the ground
 of the Great Bonanza, the Socorro and
 the Del Monte. There. tcO. is the Min
 eral group, where our company has
 coo tons of ore blocked out and 50
 eco tons already on the dumps that vii . average S45. From this group we arc about to build, at a cost of S3,GOO ( a road across the range to Cullen's sta. tion, 9 distance of twelve miles. bS wEich we will save twenty miles ot < hauling. We also own the Whale a group, the Gorilla, the Golden Rule ant the Pedlar in the Harcuvars, all e which would furnish freight to T rail ;cad and be very glad indeed of tn. chance to do so. We also wish 10 pu up a fftystamp quartz mill at onc, a cn the Mineral Belt, but are in hope S the railroad will come ill time .o as q sist u@.
 2 II can't help but think said pr Gcer in conclusion, that ii is the in s tcnticn of the builders O: the road t a push it southwest and thus open up V3lua bic and prolific mjninf- rounfr-