Williams news., 1906-07-14
SOME POSSIBLE RAILWAY CHANCES Santa Fe Has a Corps Engineers in the
 Field


 Fe coast lines, with headquarters at Los Angeles, arrived in the city with a party of some dozen men, and on Monday securing the ser vices of team belonging to Harry Cargile, started to unload their car and esta blish their camp in Quak- ing Asp Flat, few miles southeast of town.
 Along in December of last year MT. Cochran was in this section and spent some time in going over the ground thoroughly from Oak creek west to He'll canyon. Nothing def nite was given out at that time re garding the intentions of the com pany, and MT. Cochran seems to be reticent on the subject at this time.
 In discussing the matter with the NEWS scribe, however, he volun teered the information that the pur- pose of the party was the running of line from Davenport, the first station east of Williams on the main line of the Santa Fe, in a southwesterly direction into the
 Hell canyon country, crossing the old line of the Saginaw Southern at point some seven miles south
 of Williams. He stated that his
 party would be in the field for sev- eral months.
 Now, the NEWS has no means of
 learning the exact intentions of the
 company, nor do we intend to pry
 into it's business, but there is no
 harm in speculating as to the possi-
 ble terminus of the proposed sur
 vey, and the railroad which will be laid if the line is feasible, which it
 will undoubtedly prove to be. } Some time since we published an article regarding the possibilities of line of road from Williams to
 Jerome and on south, and it would ) seem from the activity of the Santa
 Fe that it intends to look after and cover its own territory: which is no } more than natural.
 From the statement made by Mir. Cochran, that the line he intends running will begin at Davenport and run southwesterly into the Hell canyon country, it is plain that the Santa Fe has one and possibly two important propositions afoot. For such line there are but two out lets, the first being at Cedar Glade on the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoe- nix road, and the other a line down
 to the Verde and Jerome. While
 there is a possibility that the pro posed line has either of these points as it's destination, there is also the possibility that both will be con structed. By tapping the "peavine" at Cedar Glade, Ash Fork would be cut out, and the company would have a direct line from Phoenix to the Grand Canyon, the trains run ming into Williams from Davenport
 and connecting with the Canyon
 line. From some point in the He'll canyon country branch road could be built down into the Verde and , all the transfer of supplies at Je-
 rome Junction for that camp avoided. As was stated in the NEWS some
 time since, it is a we'll known fact
 that Senator Clark is figuring on removing his smelling plant to the
 river from the hills, and before that can be done a road must be built connecting with the main line of the Santa Fe.
 Or course the theories advanced above have not been verified by , MT. Cochran, but such plan would
 certainly be feasible and the possi-
 bility of it's construction in the near future is very good.
 : Judging from what MT. Cochran said of the country southeast of here there is little likelihood of a of road being built from the Je- rome section to a point further east than Davenport. He said that roads could undoubtedly be built, , but not such roads as would be used