Bisbee daily review., 1906-08-05
NOT T0 BUILD ID CANANEA
 FROM LINE
s. P, Engineer Points Out the Folly of Such a Plan-Fair-
 bank to Naco,

s. P. Wambaugh, prominent rail read engineer in the employ of the Southern Pacific was in Bisbee few days since on matters connected with that road When asked if there was anything in the report that was being published about the Southern Pacific intending to build a line up the San Pedro valley and establishing a new town at the old sight of Palominas and erecting a smelter ,there. replied that there was nothing to 1t. He also stated that the company was putting at the present time hundreds of thou sands of dollars into the improvement of the line from Naco to Cananea, put ting in heavier steel widing all Of the cuts, building additional side track, etc. Does 1t look like We would be making these improvements if we ex- pccted to build another line into Cana nea south from the ltne?"
 The company in the immediate fu- ture will build line from Fairbank to Naco 10 connect with the Cananea Yaqui River road at that place. The amount of revenue that is paid to the Ell Paso & Southwestern for hauling stuff consigned over the Southern Pa cific from Benson to Naco will in six months time pay for the building Of | the road from Fairbank to Naco which | is a distance of th;rty-five miles. The i line of the proposed road between | these two points has already been made and some of the grade stakes been set. It is expected that as soon as the grading outfits and engineering l hot aro1on1 at pilnT Knnh in trying to stop the flow of the Colo l rGdo into the Salton Sea has finished their work that they will be brought
 to Fairbank and put to work on the extension of the line from Fairbank.
 Besides this line the company expects To build another branch line in Co chise County that will mean consid- erable 10 the development of the county, but he requested that no men,
 ton be made at the present time of
 what that proposed line was as there are several matters pertaining to the light of way and one or two other de- tails that the company wished to con- plete before tbe matter became public.
 From Cananea the company expects to build south and al the present time has force Cf surveyors in that coun- try locating the line The present plan is to build from Cananea to Naco- | sari, Cumpas, Montezuma. Suaqui and tIten on tc; connect with the Guaymas- | Guadalajara line This line south iron, | NacosGri is on the concession that
 was originally held by the E. P. & s w. people. but who allowed it 10 lapse. On the very day that they allowed Air to lapse. representative of the Southern Pacific was in the City Of
 Mexico and took up the concession sc
 fiat at the the present time the E. ?
 &, S w. are shut out frcm going fur
 tier south with their line than NacOs
 ari as. there is not room for the two roads below there and the Mexican
 law prevents any road from running parallel with anotEer for a distance without heing 20 kilometers apart.
 The Southern Pacific have set theiJ zero bench mark al the end of the
 rails of the E. P. 6, s. W. at Nacozar
 so that the latter are shut off entirely
 James Douglas of the NacCsari road
 went to the City of Mexico few
 weeks since to try and get hold of tht
 concession again. but found that 1t was to late. the Southern Pacific hay
 ing the matter cinched."