Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-22
WHO FINANCES THE GREENE
 RAILROAD
Interesting Talk in Which Name
 of E, H. Hartman Figures Judge Fall Denies Magnate
 Has Anything to Do With It,

The Mexican Herald and various other leading newspapers are making the argument that E. H. Hartman is back of Col W. C. Greene's great railroad enterprise, the extension of the Rio Grande, Sierra Madre and Pacific railroad now operating from Fl Paso and Juarez on the interna- tiOnal boundary to NueYas Casas Grandes, this state, and now being extended on southwestward through Chihuahua and Sonora to the Pacific coast of the latter state. Hartman may be interested in it and it would be to his interest to encourage the road, but Col. Greene and H. R. Nick ermnn are at the head of the recent ly organized railroad company, the Siera Madre and Pacific, as it is now known, says the Chihuahua Enter
 prise.
 It has been denied that Hartman has anything to do with the Greene | railroad. This denial was made by
 Judge A. B. Fall, Col Greene's per | sonal and company attorney, and was
 publish in a recent issue of the En- terprise. That Col. Greene and Pres. Nickerson are in complete control of II lllt ana IS Cef- I tain. While it has never been public ly announced, it is known down here
 that Geo. D. Cook & Co.,, the noted
 bankers and bond brokers who have | floated practically ali of the Mexican | government bonds now out, are fi- l nancing the road. One thing Is certain | and that is that the plan of financing | the building of the road is arranged | 1z n1 fnfW hot TsoIr | son is perfecting his plans for push | ing the extension of the road south
 ward from Nueva Casas Grandes to-
 ward Sta. Elena on the Chihuahua an6 l Pacific and from the latter point to-
 ward Concheno and Ocampo. Both | Col. Greene and Pres. Nickerson have
 announced a vigorous campaign of ex- | tension work and the close of the
 rainy season will no doubt see it in augurated. Next year will see the
 road completed from Nuevas Casas | Gra@Ses to Sta Elena on tbp C. * r. and the vest trains of lumber from the
 mills of the Sierra Madre Land x
 Lumber company at Madeira where
 l50,0GO000 feet of lumber is to be pro-
 duced annually will be going out over the road to Juarez and Fl Paso thence to Douglas, Cananea, Bisbee and oth- CT points; and over the lumber com pany's railroad from Madeira to Temos- achic, thence over the c. & P. to this city and into the Mexican markets. The building of the road southwest
 ward from Sta. Elena now underway should be well into the Sierra Madres toward the COnchenO and Ocampo mining districts by the close of anoth- ct year, if the projected plans are car.
 ried on and there is no reason to think they will not be-
 So far as the arguments of the Mexi- can Herald and other newspapers are concerned, they seem to have no ap- parent basis for belief that E. H. Har- riman is interested in the Sierra Mad re and Pacific railroad to the Pacific coast in Sonora except the argument of-Seography. It would give Harri-
 mans west coast road now being rapidly extended south from Guaymas to Guadalajara direct line from southern and central Sonora to Fl Paso and over the Chihuahua and Pa cific to this city That Hartman has
 wanted to get in with Col Greene on this road is absolutely certain and that
 fact, with the geographical position of the road shows the great import ance of the Sierra Madre and Pacific enterprise.