Bisbee daily review., 1905-05-11
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
 MEANS BUSINESS
ENGINEERS TO BEGIN WORK IM- MEDlATELY AT
 GUAYMAS.
Will Make Survey North to Interna- tionaI Boundary-Terms of Conces- son CaIi tor 100 kilometers to Be Built the First Year.

l 0Afik FiFSI CdIs
 According to the concession that has | just been received from the A4exlcan government by the Cananea, laqui
 River and Pac. R. R., this company,
 which is a Hartman property, says
 the Mexican Herald, is authorized to build a line from Guaymas on the i Pacific north to the border and south easterly from Guaymas, touching at
 the ports of Agiabampo and Topolo-
 bampo. No subvention was asked 1 for, but the great Southern Pacific
 railroad system that is fostering the enterprise is ready with all the mon
 ey necessary, and Capt. L. w. Mix, widely known in Sonora, and until re- certly a resident of Nogales, who has
 been instrumental in securing the con cession, is authority for the statement that engineers will be placed at work Immediately on that portion of the line out of Guaymas.
 The railroad in whose name the concession has been granted. is but forty-two miles long. extending from
 Naco on the northern boundary of
 Mexico. to Cananea. At its head is
 Epes Randolph as president. Mir.
 Randolph will doubtless continue as
 the head of the extension proposed. Tn strict sense of the word, however, the lines to be built under the terms of the concessions just granted will not be extensions. At no point will the proposed line be within fifty miles of the present line of the Cananea, Yaqui River and Pacific.
 The first division of the line author ized is that portion from Naco to Cana Inca, already completed.
 The second division will extend from Guaymas to |. point near Torin and then pass up the valley of the Yaoui river to Tonichi.
 The third division will be built from some point on line No. 2 to Alamos.
 The fourth division will be from some point on line No. to the port of Agiahampo. and from there to the port of Topolobampo.
 The fifth division will be up the valley by the Eaqui river north to the international boundary near Bernar- dicnc.
 Under the terms of the concession 15O kilometers must be built the first year on lines and 5, and 100 kiloma ters each following year for four years. The lines to the ports of Agia bampo and Topolobampo and to the boundary will be built later at -he convenience of the company.
 It is highly desirable to get the line to Tonichi and the line to Alamos 1 completed as soon as possible. The l first will furnish an outlet for the p-o- duct of La Barranca coal mines te- longing to the Southern Pacific. spd the second will enter rich agricultur- al region.
 In securing his concessi11 .be | clause preventing paralleling has been | introduced, giving the Hartman lines l practically control of the regions pen l etrated.
 The total mileage e. the Hartman | lines in Mexico now amount to 307 | miles-the Cananea, Yaqui River and | Pacific having forty-two and the Sono- l ra railway 265. The latter road was built by the Santa Fe, but traded to l the Southern Pacific many years ago. | By the construction of the lines pro- vided for in the concession just grant | ed the mileage of the Hartman lines 1 will be increased to at least three l times the present.
 The port of Guaymas is already | touched by the Sonora, but by building | from that port under the new rights, ! the system will be put in touch with i . rich territory lying south and cast | of that region tapped by the Sonora. l In that district there is little mining | for many miles along the coast, and a | considerable distance back from the | coast there is the richest agricultural l section in Sonora, and it is this field | the proposed railroad will enter.
 Should J. A. Naugle, general manag- 1 CT of the Sonora, be successful in his | application for a concession, the liar | riman system wifi be extended into | Mexico still further. MT. Naugle as | the representative of the system, has | asked for the concession to permit his | company to extend its line south l through Culiacan, touching at Mazat l Ian and going to Guadalajara. Should | this concession be granted, either | through the efforts of Mir Nagule, or | to any one else representing the Hai. rimY lines. it is not improbable that l the right to build On south from Quad | alajara to Mexico City would be ask | ed.