Arizona republican., 1908-07-26

Iron Springs people. This is said TO
be the liveliest station on the road,
except Phoenix.
Nogales, Ariz., July 24.-(Special
Correspondence of The Republican,
The new Cananea branch of the
Rio Yaqui Pacific railroad which
is building between Nogales and
Cananea, is being pushed with the
utmost vigOr at the present time.
Owing to the cooler weather here a
number of camps which have been
occupied with the construction of the
line into Culiacan have been moved
to the Cananea branch, which has
enabled the pushing of the road very
rapidly. There are at present two
pile driving outfits, four grading
camps and several cement construc-
tion gangs at work, occupying about
one thousand men and some six or
seven hundred mules. The line is
now laid with track to a point seven
miles out of the town of Santa
Cruz, at a point forty miles from
Nogales and thirty-fiv miles from
Del Rio. The heavy part of the
construction through the hills,
where it was necessary to do much
blasting, has now been completed,
and the larger bridges are also COM
pleted. The line crosses the Santa
Cruz river seven times over very
substantial bridges, and all the
smaller bridges and culverts, when
completed, will be of the best
cement.
Two more construction camps.
numbering several men and some
three hundred mules, with grading
outfits, will be sent up from Culiacan
within the next few days and be set
to work on this line. The men at
the head of the work assured one
of Nogales' business men a day or
so ago that the line would certainly
be completed into Bel Rio not later
than Setember 3Oth. Such rapid con-
struction is made possible by the
greatly increased force of men and
animals now being put on the work,
and also by the fact that from the
point now reached the line will en-
counter few if any obstacles, and it
is therefore probable that the new
road will be pouring freight into
Cananea by the first of October.
Now that the Greene interests have
renewed activity, business is picking
up very rapidly at the copper camp.
but one of the prominent merchants
and buyers of Cananea informed n
Nogales merchant this week that no
large orders for fuel, merchandise or
material were being placed just at
present owing to the fact that it
would be to the company's advan-
tage, as well as to the advantage
of all the merchants to wait until the
new line from Nogales is completed,
as freight coming in by the new line
will be much less expensive than
that sent by way of NacO.
The Greene interests and all others
in Cananea will ship in all their
coal. coke and other supplies by way
of Nogales, and all heavy freight out
of that camp will also be forwarded
by way of the Line City.
This will mean a greatly increased
tonnage passing over the Southern
Pacific's tracks at this point, and
the enlargement of the local freight
yards will at once be begun to ac
commodate this great traffic. Even
now the freight yards at Nogales are
of such dimensions as to emphasize
the fact that the line cities are be-
coming a very important terminal
point for roads both north and south.
At the meeting of the Board of
Trade Tuesday evening, the Fourth
of July committee having i'm charge
the big celebration made their final
financial report, showing that al
though expenses had called for con-
siderably over eighteen hundred dol
ficit of but about six dollars, which
would be taken care of.
The country hereabouts has re-
ceived daily showers for several
weeks apast and the hills are begin
ming to be covered with a decided
carpet of green, which will greatly
assist the cattle interests, as feed
was becoming very scarce previous
to the rains.
The Rev. Mr.. Bennett of the First
Episcopal church of Prescott will
preach at st. Andrews church in No
gales the coming Sunday and will
look over the field with a view to
making this his perlaaent field.
Crawford street, one OF the main
residence streets of the city, has now
sidewalk construction and
when the grading on the hill is com
pleted, which will be within a few
days, the street will present a very
attractive appearance and property