Weekly journal-miner., 1909-05-12
A. & c. TO EXTEND
 LINES TO BENGAL
lFrom WednesdAy's pallyl

CFrom Wednesdays Dany)
 That F. M Murphy, president of the
 S. F., P. & P. and leased lines, is using
 his best endeavors to have the Arizona
 & California railroad built from Par
 ker to Bengal, which will be the great
 est impetus yet to the development of
 that part of Arizona tributary to the new road, and is anxious to see the smoke pouring out of tho stacks of the Humboldt smelter, as well as give the
 merchants and inning men of this city equal facilities of reaching the new copper and gold country, is cer- tain from his conversation with a Journal-Maner representative yester- day.
 President Murphy will meet E. P. Ripley, president of the Santa Fe, and several other Santa Fe officials at Ash Fork Friday and accompany them on uuiA4cu ltIp tO dIAcI-
 When asked if there was any eer- tainty of an early resumption of con struction of the A. & c. from Parker to Bengal, California, he said: "I am doing all that I can to that end. I cannot tell exactly when work will be resumed, but am anxious that the extension of the line from Parker to Bengal will be started as soon as the hot weather is over"
 of the reclamation service starts the irrigation project at Parker, it will undoubtedly mean hte early completion of the road, as well as great agricul- tural development of the Colorado val ley below Parker. Besides the trans portation facilities, with the line in operation to Bengal, will result in great minig activity and development of the country tributary to the A. & C. railroad. During my recent visit to Los Angeles, met great many people there who have interests in that country and who are anxious to start large development. They assured me they will do so as soon as direct com munication is made with the coast, en- abling them to have fuel, mine timber and other mining supplies delivered at their properties at a reasonable cost.
 ''The improved passenger service goes into effect on the A. & c. rail l road to Parker on May 7, and will i doubtless prove very helpful to that section and eorrespondingly helpful to Prescott, as it makes possible direct | communication with Parker from here in as short time as from any point south of Wiekenburg."
 Asked if there was any possibility of an early resumption of operations at the Humboldt shelter, MT. Murphy | replied: "I had a talk with A. S. Dwight, consulting engineer of the Consolidated Arizona Smelling Compa- ny, this afternoon. Mr Dwight and his associate engineers at Humboldt are very busy. They are necessarily confronted by many perplexing ques tions. I hope to see some substantial move looking to early operations soon.
 "Mr. Dwight has many troublesome problems to deal with and being a very careful and competent engineer and shelter man he is naturally pro eeeding cautiously. It is hard for any one, and 1 might say impossible, l do not care what ability they possess, to in a short time the mineral resources tributary to the smelling plant located at Humboldt. This is true in the fact of the fact that so many of the mines tributary to the plant are idle at present for lack of facilities the shelter will furnish.
 ''I have every confidence in Mr. Dwight that he will do everything con- expected of him and when fhe start is made it will be on firm footing,' he concluded.