Bisbee daily review., 1905-07-15
RAILROAD NOTES 0F
 DOUGLAS DIVISION END
WILL GRADE SITES FOR TWENTY NEW BUILDINGS AT PRES
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 R. Toohey of Phoenix will have q large force of men and teams at work at Fort Whipple next Monday. when the work of excsvating for the twenty four new buildings there will begin in earnest says the Herald.
 Toohey closed a big contract with r. H. Barnes last night, through H. H. Burrell. agent for the latter. where by he takes over all the work of eX- cavating. the agreement being in the nature of g sub-contract
 To get his teams and scrapers on the ground. Toohey left today for the vicinity of Jerome. where he has a large force of men and teams ready 10 begin work at once. He will have them here Monday, and ready to be- gin extensive operations
 Tooheys contract will keep him at work at the fort for several months. It will require a large number of men to handle his teams. He has taken the contract to move the earth by the yard and will probably put on just as many teams as he can find room for.
 As a contractor Toohey is well know in Prescott and other parts of the territory. At present he has the contract for hauling coke from Jerome to the Equator shelter. A few years ago he was with Urman & Crook at Bisbee. where they built many miles of railroad
 O. 4. Ash. brakeman on the G. Fl. expects to leave Fl Paso today on a mining trip in Arizona
 A. L. Hawley, auditor of the South western Northeastern. is expected to return to Fl Psso Sunday from the east
 Agent Howard. of the Northeastern at Duran. was transferred today to Alamogordo. to become manager Of the Postal Telegraph company. while II. B. Cohen relieved Nr. Howard.
 WeIls-Fsrg1s refrigerator car ar rived this morning from Kansas points This car reaches Douglas once a week and is loaded with eggs and dressed poultry for Douglas, Bis bee. Nsco and Cananea.
 Travellers from the west report the Salton sea to have risen to the tracks of the s P and that a force of men are raising the grade The overflow is due 10 the opening of a new chan nel of the Colorado, which runs into the Salton
 Recently three freight conductors on the Southwestern have been pro noted by having their names added to the extra passenger list. They are T. L. Sparks. H. L. Wattles and H. F. Meager. There are five extra pas senger conductors on the Southwes- tern with C. W. Parker at the head of the list Mir Parker is now run ming freight out of Fl Paso 10 Ha- chita.
 The eighteen hour trains Of the Lake Shore and Pennsylvania roads between New York and Chicago have opened new possibilities in transcon- tinental traffic. With changes just announced in the Rock Ilsand system it will be possible to travel from New York to Denver. 2055 miles, in 45 hours. and from New York to the Pa cific coast. 3260 miles. in 96 hours, commencing next Sunday.
 Mexico is shy of wheat. There has been a scarcity of the crop that has resulted disastrOusly to the farmers. The Santa Fe company has announc- ed a special rate on wheat from all California terminals to Fl Paso of % cents per hundred weight when des- tined to Mexican points. This will enable California what men to com pete with Kansas dealers for the trade. President Diaz has issued an order reducing the duty on wheat into Mexico from $5 per ton to s1.50 during July only. but 1t is thought this will be extended.
 The Arizona & Colorado railway has established an office in Durango Colorado, in charge of c. c. Sroufe There has been much speculation as to whether this company would build MT. Sroufe. when asked about it. said "Our people are not bluffing. They have spent over one hundred thous- and dollars in surveys and prellmin- sry work and don't propose to stop now. They are certainly going to build and are only awaiting the adop- ton of plans. If it was not their in- tention to build. there would be no contentious for rights of way with other roads"
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