Bisbee daily review., 1904-05-15

to Solomonville. The Gila's course will again be pursued into New Mexico, to a connection with the old line east of Lordsburg. From Guthrie, the line of the Arizona and New Mexico will be followed for most of the remaining distance. A branch is to be constructed into Clifton. TheGila Valley road will give ingress into Globe. to which point the Santa Fe is expected to build. as well as to Clifton. Other branches will be to Troy and Superior mines.
 The first clash between the two con- flicting interests was in the fourteen miles lying between the Santa Fe river crossing, near Kelvin. and Dud- leyville. where rival grading gangs worked upon different sections of the same roadbed till a decision of the District Court gave injunction in favor of the Santa Fe. The Southern Pacific graders were moved up the river. into the narrow Box Canyon, where they are cutting out fourteen foot roadbed on the north side of the stream. In places the necessary rock has to be blasted from the cliffs above and in others the road must be cut in to the face of the cliff an6 almost sus- pended above the stream. The grade is being kept uniformly al four-tenths of 1 per cent, save near San Carlos, where it will reach cne-half of l per cent fer a few miles. gaining eleva- tion above the crest of a water-s,or- age dam projected by the engineers of the Geological Survey Heavy work will be struck in another canyon of the river near Guthrie. above Solomon vile. but the grade will be maintained.
 The same grade conditions will probably be secured by the Santa Fe, though it will have to take the south eTn side of the Gila above Dudleyville ana possibly may have a little heavier work on it's hands. Al places the canyon is only a couple of hundred feet wide. And room must be left between the two railroads for torren. tial river. The Santa Fe tunnel through the Buttes. above Florence. has just been completed, as has the first bridge across the stream. Track laying is to be resumed immediately, with the expectation of reaching'Dud- leyyille with the steel by July l. The grade is complete to Kelvin at the present time l
 Southern Pacific invasion will be- made by a road from Phoenix north-l warC. by the Agua Fria Valley into the mineral districts south ana south east of Prescott, with terminus at al connection with Senator Clark's mar dow-gague railway near Jerome. Pres colt will be reached by branch. This road was projected years ago. but fell through because Of an agreement be- tween the two roads to divide the ter ritory evenly.
 To Connect With Cananea.
 Other Southern Pacific plans em- brace continuation of the Pearce road to Naco to a connection with the Can anea railway, which. in turn, is to bel extended to the Sonora coal fields and to the Gulf of California at or near Guaymas. Then there is a Colorado scheme supposed to have Hartman backing, that provides for a road from Durango. Colo. down through Gallup and along the western side Of the western side of the Sierra Madres to Clifton. The road has been surveyed and a route definitely chosen, but the enterprise is still very much in the air, Something similar in plan for building a road from Phoenix into So- nora by way of Florence, Tucson and Nogales.
 A project that gives promise of ear iy costruction is branch from the Santa Fe north from Peach Springs to the Grand Canyon, a distance of twen- ty miles, as entrusted with sixty-fve miles from Williams. While the can- yon is not as deep north of Pea..h Springs. it is much more precipitous and fully as awe-inspiring.-Los Ange- les Times.