Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-28
SOUTHWESTERN MUST BUILD
 DWELLINGS
Moving of Railroad Shops to Fl PaSo NeceSSitates Roads
 Action,

DOUGLAS, July 27.-(Special.)- )- According to General Manager H. J. Simmons of the Fl Paso and South. western, the railroad company faces serious proposition in supplying houses for the men who will work in the new shops at that city. The rail road itself is not going into the real estate business but the shop employees naturally look to the company to see that they have houses in the neighbor- hood of their place of work.
 In an interview at Fl Paso, Mir. Sim mons said:
 'The shops will open on the first of September, and there is not a suit able vacant house in the city for any of the families that are coming here now have applications on file in my office for S7 houses close to the shops, and there is not one in sight. The men who will be transferred here when the shops are completed, are try ing to arrange in advance for houses, but there are none to be had.
 ''Conservatiyely speaking, We will need at least 125 or 150 houses for the families of the men who will be en- pioyed in the shops. If the real estate owners do not come to the rescue, the situation will be serious, for we will work several hundred men and there will be no hor2es for those with fami- lies. The men cannot live very far from their work, and if they could or cared to, there are no suitable vacant houses in the city. A canvass of the real estate mea's offices will soon show this, and 100 families brought to Fl Paso at one time, if they took every vacant house in the city, regardless of size or location, could not be accon- modated.
 The demand is for houses of from three to five and six rooms, and they can all be rented as soon as complet- ed, if erected in the vicinity of the shops. l have been talking with the real estate dealers of the city, espe- cially those having property in the vii cinity of the new shops, but as yet no houses have been started.
 Many Of the families will buy and build, suppose, as the years wear on, just as other people do who come to Fl Paso, but very few of them will come here at first and build their own houses until they settle down and be- come satisfied. The problem is, there fore, a serious one-the city is unable to take care of the people we wish to bring here. to help build up the town.
 The SOutawc stern railroad is not in the real estate business, and does not wish b erect houses for it's. em- ployes. We are in the railroad busi- ness and have enough to do to lock after that, without branching out and building houses to rent to our en- ployes. We do not like to do things of this sort, and we are hoping that the people of the city will realize the situation and help us out. It is a matter purely of business. We have the people to take the houses, and they will get wages enough to enable them to pay their rents promptly. l am authorized by the men who are coming here to engage houses for them, and can state that every one will be rented as socn as the shops are open. if the property owners will only build them. I could at once en- gage 27 houses for which I have ap- plications On hand, and by the time the shops are open, there will be a de- mand fer others, to the number of 125 or 150.
 Several people have said to me that they intended erecting houses in the vicinity of the shops, but did not think the shops would be open before the first of December. I can state positively that the shops will be open ed on September l or thereabouts- not much later at the utmost-and if anybody is contemplating the erection of houses to rent to the employees, it is time they were beginning.