Bisbee daily review., 1905-06-24
WORK TO BEGIN
 0N EL PASG SHOPS
CONSTRUCTION TO BEGIN IN TEN DAYS. SAYS GENERAL
 MANAGER SIMMONS.
Deal Has 5een Closed In Ei Psso For the Site. Which Cost in
 Neighborhood of . S25. 900.

Fl Paso, June 23.-Work on the
 big joint shops to be located in Fl
 Paso for the railroad systems of Phelps. Dodge & Co.,, will begin with 1 in ten days. That is what General
 Manager Simmons said yesterday af- ternoon.
 The site for the shops vas pur-
 chased yerterday morning and the contract providing for the transfer, of thirty-four acres in the Bassett addi- tion to Phelps, Dodge & Co. for cash
 consideration of $2C140O0-$60O per acre-was signed in the office of w. W. Turney, who negotiated the deal , for the railroad. Charles Basset. one ] of the owners of the Bsssett addition, and J. W. McWilliams of New Or leans. representing Mrs. Sadie Mo Donald. owner of a controlling inter est in the addition, were parties to the agreement, and the final papers have been forwarded to New Orleans for Mrs. McDonald's signature.
 The ground purchased by the rail- road company is a strip of land 300 feet wide extending east and west clean across the Bassett addition. On , the south it adjoins the G. H. right of way and on the west joins the Cot ton addition. The strip is 1880 feet long. and 1t is necessary to nave a stretch Of ground 5000 feet long for the necessary yards. LOO feet will be bought in the Cotton addition. which is now in the hands of a receiy- CT
 Soon after the deal had been con summated a reporter called on Gen eral Manager Simmons and asked him when work on the shops would begin.
 "A large portion of our material said Mir. Simmons. has been ordered shipped at once and grading work wI:i begin on the ground within ten days. Our engineers will at once survey and lay off the ground for the shops, the roundhousce. the car sheds and the yard tracks. We are more anX- ious than you or the people of Fl Paso to get our shops established and in operation. Consequently. there will be no delay that can possibly be avoided"
 An official in the mechanical de- partment of the Southwestern sad yesterday that before the first of No vember the shops will be employing 400 men.
 "It will not take a big force of men," said the official quoted. more than an hundred days to complete the shops. install the machinery and have all the tracks necessary to a begin ming laid.
 As a proff of good faith and an abiding interest on the part of the people of Fl Paso in the matter of locating the shops in this city, the Phelps. Dodge people requested the Chamber of Commerce to guarantee the sum of 8, 100. which is the diff ference between s15D00. the pTdce that the company agrees to pay for the property. and $20.400, the price demanded by the owners of the land. w W. Turney, representing the Phelps. Dodge company. went before a called meeting of the 5Oard of direc- ors of the Chamber Of Commerce. held yesterday afternoon. with the proposition. MT. Turney explained that while the Phelps. Dodge company considered that s15.OO0 was a good figure for the property. they were not haggling on the figure. but thought it nothing more than right that the property owners of Fl Paso. in order to show that they want the shops located here and that they recognize tae movement d. ....s ti4ats ,5.-ii..,, -ccccit in great material benefit 10 this city, should raise the difference between the sum that the company is willing to pay and that demanded by the land owners