Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-15
The Copper City Review News Bureau, Internstona-anerican Building.
REAL SURVEYS ARE
 NOW BEING MADE
George E, Woodward of Moe. tezuma Tells of the Lower
 Country.

DOUGLAS, March 14.-(Special.)- )--
 George F. Woodward, accompanied by Mrs. Woodward, arrived yesterday from Moctezuzna, ,&Sonora. MT. Wood ward has been in poor health for sey- eral weeks and goes to Los Angeles with the purpose of ridding himself of a severe cold that has clung to him almost continually since the be- ginning of the year. He left for Cali fornia this morning. After a sojourn of several weeks in southern Califor- mia Mir. and Mrs. Woodward will go on to Portland to visit an uncle of MT. Woodward whom he has not seen for more than twenty years.
 There is no railroad grading going on now south of Nacozari at this time, notwithstanding all the talk of the last few months" said Mir. Woodward in answer to an inquiry about the railroad situation in his section of Sonora. Both the Phelps-Dodge company and the Southern Pacific have been busy in running parallel lines south of Nacozari for months and it has been regarded as a game of bluff by many on account of the character of the lines marked out The original lines marked out by pre- liminary surveying were in many places over ground where it would be impossible to build a railroad that could be maintained. Some of the. stakes were set in the bottom of the canyon where a railroad grade could not stand in time of high water.
 Both these companies have re- gently begun work on surveys which look more like they meant business. The recent surveys are said to be of the character of permanent location. One is on one side of the canyon and both are high up on the mountain sides where a line once built would be undisturbed.
 The Phelps-Dodge company has re gently secured a new state conces-I sion which gives them the right to build a railroad two hundred kilome- ters south of Nacozari. This will bring their line to San Pedro on the Yaqui river, where their federal con cession for a line to Guaymas begins
 The people of Moctezuma and the country south of there are very anx- ious to see one or both of these com panies build a railroad to that section
 
 the exception of an occasional ranch and mine the country south of Mocte- Zuma is in an undeveloped state and as soon as railroad reaches it there will be good investments for enor. nous amounts of capital in making one of the richest counties in the re- public of Mexico"
 Mir Woodward was the original owner of the mining property now owned and being developed by the San Juan Bautista company. Speak ing of this. property Mir Woodward said that the development work which had been done had brought good re- suits and that he regarded it as one of the best properties in the state. It is a large proposition and will require operations on an extensive scale. ! Several of the large stockholders in this company were in Douglas yester- day for the purpose of holding the | annual meeting of the company here. 1 They went to Moctezuma today and it ! a large reduction works will be in- ! stalled on the San Juan Bautista.
 Mir. Woodward has been a resident ] of Moctezuma for more than twenty years and is the owner of vast prop erty interests in the Moctezuma dis 1 trict, including mining property, l many thousand acres of fertile land | and stock of all kinds. He is well [ known in Douglas and his many l friends here will hope to see him re- {, urn from his present trip much i'm l proved in health.