Arizona republican., 1904-08-01
ON THE MAIN LINE
Phoenix Suddenly Found Itself in
 This Enviable Situation.

After waiting and talking for years about a transcontinental line, Phoe- nix found itself suddenly shifted to one yesterday. and all the prosperity which had been predicted seemed about to come to pass. The first through train in the history of the city ran through it. The train was really two trains, Nos. l and ', of the Santa Fe. held up by tine twelve mile wash1ut at and about Crosier.
 It was a monster train. q double header. There were fourteen coaches, two Pullmans three tourist sleepers and a couple of chair cars. The rest of the train was made up of day coaches, combination and baggage cars. The train arrived in the city at 2 o'clock and a considerable part of the population was there to give it q fitting welcome and also to see the first through train on record in the Sall river valley.
 The train was expected earlier but it was detained by a washout above Wickenburg. The washout occurred q couple of nights ago and the track had been repaired. The regular south bound s. F. P. & P. train passed over it short distance ahead of the visi.- ing train but immediately after about twenty-five feet of the bank gave way.
 There were no diners, for the train had started out depending on the liar vey house system. Orders were sent for dinner ahead for 165 people and cabs and busses were in waiting to convey the hungry passengers to the restau- rants. Most of them fed at Coffee AIS, but there were still enough to fill all the other restaurants to over flowing.
 By the time all the passengers had returned to the train it was ready to be shifted to the NJ. & P. track for the journey to Maricopa. It will run over the Southern Pacific to Colton, thence to San Bernardino and thence to Los Angeles over the kite-shaped track, or it may reach San Francisco by the way of Barstow.
 All the cars were soon enptied after their arrival in Phoenix and most of the passengers had something unfavor- able to say about the climate One woman said: 70 my; I've heard of this place before"
 SCcb liidliy dylllGll Ol lilS Clly wondered if the Tempe bridge would hold up the train; it was not built for this kind of traffic and it had never before been called upon to support such a weight as this fourteen-coach train, with two engines. But as- surance was given by the railroad men that the bridge could stand a still heavier weight.
 About the time orders were received for the reception of this train, others came saying that 100 freight cars fill ed with perishable goods would be sent l here to be iced. That threatened a boom in the ice business, but later the order was countermanded, and a few cars which were on the way were | taken back. All the freight business of the Santa Fe will be handled by the Southern Pacific through Deming | until the road west of Ash Fork is open.
 That was local news to local rail- road men of both roads, for they had seen before them a period of constant day and night work. The passenger business alone will be sufficient to keep them busy. The eastbound | through Santa Fe coming by the route over which Nos. l and are going arrived in the city a little after C | o'clock yesterday evening. Orders were received at the Santa Fe of flee late in the afternoon saying that a west-bound train would reach here al 3 o'clock this morning. There is no official information that there will be any other trains, but it is certain that there will be several, one a day each way until repairs are made on the main line. In addition, in the course | of the week there will be the two Cal.