Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-20
B|CKNELL IS IN BISBEE FOR
 {. P. LINES
General Freight And Passenger Agent Makes Trip Here For Purpose Of Working Several Reforms.

Among the arrivals in the city or last evenings train from the west was M. O. Bicknell, general freight and passenger agent for all of the Randolph lines 10 Arizona and Sono ra. He will spend today in the city and return On the evening train to his headquarters in Tucson. There is probably no better known railroad man in the southwest than Bicknell, who WIS responsible for most of the prosperity if the Maricopa & Phoenix line, which about a year ago Ca
 under the direction of Randolph and caused Bicknel's promotion from superintendent Of that road to the po- sition which he now holds.
 When seen by representative of the Review last evening and asked for a statement in regard to the na- ture of his trip to this portion of the territory, Mir. Bieknell stated: Although I hate to make any men tion of the fact 1t is true that in transferring from various lines to ours, especially at Nogales and Naco, passengers have been occasioned great deal of inconvenience, and al- though it seem insignificant in indi- vidual cases, great deal of expense lin getting themselves and baggage across the international boundary line The extra charge and trouble has been due entirely to the fact that prospective passengers of ours have not been aware that we have furnish ed every facility for doing away with dealings of this kind. It has always been our intention to get our passen- D, the least possible inconvenience tc them. but outsiders have profited by the fact that they were not aware Of the facilities we had provided.
 'On my present trip have arrang- ed for the stationing of an employe of ours on each side of the border tt | look after the transferring of passen gers with their baggage to the othe side without any charge and hope the l public will cooperate with us in carry | ing out this method Under the i.ev | sy stem all that will be necessary E1. 1 the prospective passenger of ours {,
 do will be to secure a receipt iron | our conductor nn the payment of Z.
 cents and tbis will insure the saf, 1 transfer of both passenger and oaG
 gage to either side of the line.
 Another object which brought mC
 to this portion Of the territory
 the present time was the matter of ar
 ranging certain details in connec.iOr with the enormous freight traffic c the state of Sonora, in which of course everyone knows, We are interested The packing industry which is g-Ow | .s, ,rsfI essitate the bringing of great maAy l commodities from the interior Of Mex ico into the U s. in bond over the lines of the Fl Paso & Southwest ern railroad and back again into the southern republic over our line. 1t ] is to our interest as well as that of | the owners of the large packing plants to have this industry built up, and for that reason we want to CO., 1 operate in every possible manner to make the handling of the imports and exports most satisfactory.
 These commodities which must be brought from the interior of Mexico are vital to the industry and for the transportingg of the same satisfac- | tory traffic arrangements have already been perfected.
 "Of course eventually We expect to handle great deal of business on this side of the international boun- dary, in spite of the Tact that many people are of tine opinion that the extenion toward Nogales has elimi- sted our taking in other territory On that side of the line. This exten- ton has been made for the proper handling of our business throughout southern Sonora, which has become l very large, but by no means does 1t mean the abandonment of the routine business via Bisbee and Naco. to- gether with other towns along the route"
 Although Bicknell is general rail road man, it is we'll known fact that his hobby has always been the passen- ger service. and when asked if he had any new schemes in this direction he reluctantly said:
 T must eonfess that I have. I in- tend to use every possible means to perfect our passenger train service, and for tstssiis ttsi reason I want to see a combination diner-observation car on every one of ouS trains into Sonora. have had the matter in mind for i long time and I can tell you that think within a comparatively few months I will realize my ambition in this respect"