Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-23
GOOD WORDS
FOR PHELPS.
DODGE FOLK
Hon. Felix Martinez Relates In
lsrestins Facts Regarding
Company in e. Paso
The Biggest indepenssnt Company In
the United Stated and In Control OF
the Most Important Copper Mines
Mernbers Of the Company Men Of
Their Word and Not eluffer-Con.
dlttons In Pass City.

Hon. Felix Martinez 'of El Paso,
who is spending the week renewing
old associations here and attending
TO matters Of business. says that Las
Vegas will be, in the highest degree,
fortunate II the plans of The Phelps
Dodge company concerning this city
be carried out.
Il have been familiar with the char
acter OF the company and with the
qualifications and capabilities of the
men who compose Il, since operations
We're begun at El Paso some time
ago, said Mr. Martinez TO The Optic
this morning. "The Phelps-Dodge
company is the largest and wealthiest
individual, Independent company in
the United States. BY that ! mean
the company is entirely independent
OF stock deals and Wall Street in.
fueIce.
Furthermore, know the members
OF the company to be no triflers.
There are only few mer IL ;he or
ganization and they are honest, hon
orable. straightforward and when
they make a statement you may rely
on it infallibly. The company does
not engage in bluff games and ii its
representatives tell you they intend
to build the road from Dawson
through Las Vegas TO the Ell Paso &
Southwestern you may depend upon
it that such is their intention.
lei sPaso considers the Phelps
Dodge company RAILROAD ard acces-
sorry features worth more to her than
any other two railroads. The COM
pany manifests the greatest interest
in any town or section through which
its roads pass, and spares no efforts
in the development of the resources
Of the country. While originally and
still mainly mining company, the
corporation has become town cre-
ators, home builders and developers
OF the country through necessary rail-
road building.
Something Of the experience Of Ell
Paso with the Phelps-Dodge company,
may he of interest to your readers.
The company offered to pay the
Southern Pacific certain rate on coal
and other material hauled to Bisbee
and on the product hauled from the
mines. The S. IP declined. With
out more ado, engineers were put in
the field, a right survey was made,
a right of way secured and before the
Southern Pacific company had made
up its mind that the Phelps-Dodge
people meant business construction
was under way on a line from Ell
Paso to Bisbee. The company paid
its way, acquired right of way into
Fl Paso by the most direct business
methods and soon won the entire con-
fidemye df the Ell PasO citizens.
This confidence has been steadily
maintained. The company is now
building the most extensive railway
shops in the southwest In Ell Paso.
The shops Hnil Dtiler improvements
call for an outlay Of $1,000,0O0. 1t is
a fact that the Phelps Dodge COM
pany. beginning Its railway building
operations at time when business
was not particularly brisk. increased
the volume 25 per cent. Within
month, the output OF the company
viii, doubtless be greater than that
Of any other copper mining company
in the United States. The income
from, the Copper Sueen mine goes up
into, the million mark every month
and the company can well a1ord to
build railroads where 1t needs them.
"And, as shown by the first class
manner in which the Ell Paso 4
Southwestern is maintained. the
roads. once bulrt, will be well kept
ND. II Las Vegas can secure ana
keen the interest Of the Phelps
Dodge company the city Will be ex-
ceedingly fortunate. 1t is worth any
amount OF exertion ON the part OF
the ueople. but probably, little. or no
exertion will be necessary. II the
company needs the road In the de-
velopment of its mining business.
the road will be built. And II the
company once gives out that y mas
decided to build the road IT Will De
built 1, looks as though the history
Of the Phelps Dodge people In III
Paso Is being repeated in Las Vegas.
| can have no better wish for Las We.
pas than that this viii prove true"
Mr.. Martinez says that FL Paso
and the Mesilla valley have sent
strong delegations to the Nationai
Irrigation congress and he believes
that Las Vegas made Il serious MIS-
take in not doing likewise. He says
that the recommendation by the as
sociation of q small irrigation project
like the one desired by Las Vegas
would ensure it early construction.
The gentleman. however. believes that
Las Vegas is certain to get her res
ervoir. He is much interested. OF
course. in the Elephant Butte dam
project, which will bring under irri-
CATION 10000 acres of prime land
and will make amenable to pumping
/, 7o,ooo acres more The El Paso peo-