Bisbee daily review., 1904-05-14
No Use, its
 Fate Is Fixed
THE OUTSIDERS WON'T ALLOW
 OWNERS TO KEEP IT.
The Ei Paso and Southwestern Has Been Soid Agaln-That Is, in "the Minds of the Fl Paso Pencil Push ers-of Course the Owners Have Not Deeded It Yet, Though.

Phelps-Dodge company has a hard time of it hanging on to their Fl Paso and Southwestern Railroad. Every time there is a special car" hooked on to an E. P. & S. w. train. some fellow proceeds to sharpen up his pen. Gil and starts out with header of They're After E. P. & s. W.
 ..While 1t might be a good thing for them to have. the Fl Paso and South western owners have not the slight. est idea of parting with their property While they might be able to take hold Of some of the properties said to be looking for them" and make them nay. the E. P. & s. w. was built by a business firm, paid for with money cut oi their own pockets. and not for stock juggling purposes.
 The plain facts are that the officials of the lines east of Fl Paso cannot understand where all the volume ci traffic is coming from originated by the E. P. & s. W. R. R.. to and from its line. Naturally they want to "be shown" and the hitch up" their pri- vatecars and take a run Gown to look at us 'Injune" here in the southwest. and who, by the way, have done much to build up Fl Paso's business. adu ye, in the majority asleep to their oppor tuDities here.
 But witness the latest effusion of the Fl Paso Herald, notwithstanding the denial in the Review, and the Re view comes as near having it's car tc the crack as the visitors to Fl Paso from San Diego.
 Says the Herald:
 Instead of reaching here tomorrow as was announced yesterday from E. P.-N. F. sources, President Loree and party of the Rock Island will arrive here this evening at 6 o'clock and 8 special has been ordered to take the party out over the E. P. 6 s. W. to Benscn, on their arrival from the north. According to the present ar rangement the party will only be in Fl Paso a few minutes.
 This move on the part of the Rock Island officials, whom it is stated will leave fer San Diego. Cal, after visit ing points along the E. P. & $. W. gives color to the persistent rumor that has been going the rounds for some time that the Rock IslanG was seeking an outlet for it's ,El Paso line to the Pacific coast, by other lines than the Southern Pacific.
 Tt is well known fact that during the las. few months, certain parties in Fl Paso, who, there is good reason to believe. have been working in ccnnec- tion with the Rock Island, have been securing data on the country between Benson and Yuma and the probable cost of building a railroad through that portion of Arizona, and it is stat ed it was found to be a comparatively cheap route.
 Frequently today in railroad circles one hears the prediction that within the next year the Rock Island will control the Fl Paso & Southwestern and that it will not be many months before the Rock Island yill be running its own trains into San Diego. Re gently a visitor to Fl Paso from San Diego, who was in touch with matters in that city, made the statement that from what he could learn the Rock Islano was the power behind the San Diego & Eastern. a projected road to run from San Diego. Cal, to Yuma, Ariz., and there connect with the southwestern extension.
 ~Of course the Fl Paso & Southwest