Bisbee daily review., 1907-05-04
OF THOMPSON IS
 EXPLAINED
In Interview States That All Objects He Desired to Attain Will Be Included in Warren Company'S Line.

When J. E. Thompson arrived in the city yesterday afternoon he was ask ed whether reports which have been current to the effect that he had con cluded to withdraw from his move ment to secure a street railway fran chise in Bisbee, and ic -enlv he said:
 That is the way matters stand now and win remain, provided MT. Powell and his associates continue with plans they have determined upon for build ing their Warren street railway line from Lowell into Bisbee and on up Tombstone Canyon, giving the busi- ness men of Bisbee and the property owners of the town proper, of Upper Tombstone Canyon and of NacO road, Johnson Addition and Lowell the ad- vantages of direct street railway transportation facilities and connec- tion without transfer with one and the other and with the shafts of the district
 Tn explanation of my withdrawal l want to say that when l took up the matter of building a street railway for Bisbee a couple of months ago and made arrangements for carrying out my plans, it was not the intention of MT. Powell and associates to build as comprehensive a Risbee line as they have since determined to do. As an Upper Tombstone Canyon. Bisbee, Johnson Addition and Lowell property owner and tax payer l felt, and still strongly feel, that Bisbee must have connection straight through to the DOT tions of the district which l have named and I felt and still feel that other property owners locked at the matter in the same way. Therefore l took the steps which I did and which have cost several thousand dollars, for surveys, legal work and attendant expenses.
 After I had put my plans in mo- tion, I learned that Mir. Powell and associates reconsidered their former position, as a result of further consid- eration of the situation than they had before given and as result of the find ing by their engineers of more favor able conditions for building the Lo- -Bisbee- Tombstone Canyon line than they had before believed avail able. As a consequence they found it possible to show me that they could and would build a line carrying all the advantages for Bisbee that I had con tempIated bringing about. In fact, their construction of the line will carry more advantages, for it disposes of the transfer problem and by reason of the greater trackage they will have, they can afford to give better terms in asking for a franchise than could an independent line such as mine would have been.
 Now you have my reasons for with drawing and my views Of the present situation. I only want in addition to extend thanks to the many property owners of Bisbee who voluntarily came forward with offers to help my project along, and to say that l stil think as strongly as ever that Bisbee needs and must have street railway connection with all it's outlying resi- dence and business quarters and that as a property owner in these several localities, I am for a street railway under the best terms we can get, and shall help to get the line built in every way can, just as vigorously as if tht proposition was my own, and to this 1 end MT. Jesse Yoakum will still be il charge of my affairs and will put hi:
 time in on the street railway at m! expense and will advise with me iron
 time to time.
 T look upon Bisbee as a great towI
 for investments and expect to do con
 siderable building here during thi
 summer and fall. am doing som
 building on the Johnson Addition a the present time.
 We want to build up Bisbee am
 have its property values increase il
 the future as in the past, and we anus
 have a street railway at the presen
 stage of progress In order to hold ou own"
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