The border vidette., 1906-12-22
NEW RAILROADS.
How and Why They Are Being Built

Interesting in the extreme is the railroad situation in this section at the present time. Particularly interesting to the people of the line cities, the principal ports on the Arizona Mex ican line, and the point at which an other extensive railroad system now wishes to touch.
 The Southern Pacific system is now anxious to make Nogales the junction of the line that is to connect the So- uora railroad with the Oananea road to the east of this place. At the Same time the Arizona & Gulf line. to be built from Denver, Colorado, to the Gulf of California. is casting about for way to touch at this point,
 From Port Lobos, Sonora, on the Gulf of California, via Caborca, Sono- ra, and Tucson, Arizona, to Denver, runs the route soon to be surveyed for 1 the construction of the Arizona & Gulf road. More than fifty miles of the southern end of the new road has been already surveyed, between Port Lobos and Caborea, Sonora, and con struction work will, 1t is said, be com menced, withing two weeks. At the same time railroad engineers, who have been reconnoitering the route | from Caborca north, to the Mexican Arizona line, will commence survey ing the road to the international line, which will be crossed somewhere in the vicinity of Sasabe, about ninety miles southwest of Tucson, Arizona. From the international line the survey will be continued through American terri tory, via Tucson, to Denver.
 In addition to the construction of the railroad from Denver to tkl Cali fornia Cult, the same people who are included in the Gulf & Arizona Rail way Company. as members of an other corporation will stablish line of steamers to operate along the Paci fic coast North and South American and across to Asiatlc and European ports.
 The promoters only of the enter prise are known, but they are backed by eastern railroad and steamship operators; men who already control one of the great continental lines that enter Denver. These men. however, will keep in the background till the route from Tucson to Denver has been finally decided upon. The pre- moters are John Henderson of No gales, Arizona; P. Sandoval of NJ gales, Sonora; J H. McKibten of Cincinnati. Ohio; w. K. McKiboen of Pasadena, California
 The Arizona E Gulf road will give Arizona shorter and more direct con- nection with the transcontinental lines of the north and will give So- nora and the west coast of Mexico the same advantage To travel north from Arizona points at the present time It is necessary to go east to New Mexico and north through that ter rItory, or west to California and north through that state. The new road, running north and south, will cut off hundreds of miles of travel and hun dredR of miles of freight hauling for Arizona. And it will give railroad d connection to large undeveloped portion of the territory, both north and south. In Sonora it will pass through one of the richest mineral sections in the Mexican Repub blic- the famous Altar district
 The inspection and gradual broad ening of the plans of the Arizona x Gulf line to their present extent is it. self an interesting story and a practical demonstration of how "Great oaks from little acorns grow" A few years ago MT. John Henderson of Nogales, a mining promoter and pro- spector, entered the Altar distric. of Sonora, there acquiring the Calera and Lista Blanca mining claims. With time and labor the claims developed into valuable mines and a shelter was needed to treat the ore More capital than was at the prospector's command