Arizona republican., 1909-04-23
BONUS AND . RIGHT 0F WAY. PPe|iminaries For Building Of
 Buckeye Railroad A HOUSING MASS MEETING Business Men of Phoenix and the Lower Valley Are In Accord On the Enterprise--Working Com mittees Appointed.
A HOUSING MASS MEETING

Within sixty days, probably within 1 forty-five days, the constructions of
 the Phoenix and Buckeye railroad
 will begin. That statement is made
 as reflecting the unanimous sentiment of a large gathering of business men
 at the board of trade room yesterday afternoon, among whom were numer- | ous representatives of the Buckeye and Arlington sections. In their speech making they assumed to rep l resent the sentiment of those com
 munities as being in accord with the sentiments of the Phoenix business
 men. The citizens of the county, par, ticularly those most concerned in the sections to be penetrated by the rail road, will raise a bonus of $100,000 and furnish the right of way, the bonus to be put in the form of nego- tiable paper, due only after the road is built. With this nucleus and the right of way the Phoenix and Buck
 eye railroad company will issue bonds
 and finance the project and build the
 road.
 The above is the plan and the state
 ment is made conclusively as prac-
 tically adopted and settled upon, only
 because that was the sense of the
 meeting and if Phoenix and Buck
 eye and Arlington earnestly desire to
 do these things they will be done.
 The business men of this valley have a way of carrying out their plans when they are in earnest. that has never yet spelled failure, and they seem to be in earnest about this pro-
 ject The net result of the meeting was the appointment of two commit tees, one to secure the right of way, the other to secure the bonus. The right of way committee consists of Sam F. Webb, chairman; w. D. Full wiler, Frank Alkire, H. M. Lewis and C. T. Hirst. The bonus committee consists of Aaron Goldberg, chair man; L T. Hosey, H. J. McClung, D. B. Heard and E. B. O'Neill
 The railroad company is organized as follows: George M. Hahn, presi- dent; l. T. Hosey, vice president; Selim Nicholson, secretary; P. Cop stein, treasurer, and these gentlemen, with Carl Hayden, form the directo- rate. Under the act recently passed by the legislature the railroad will be
 exempt from taxation for ten
 years providing work is begun within ninety days after the passage of the law, which means about sixty days from now MT. Hahn stated that the company had no time to lose and hoped to be able to begin construction within forty-five days.
 The meeting was presided over by J. W. Foss, president of the board of trade, and was addressed by half a hundred people in the hour or so that followed Citizens were coming and going all the time, and the capacity | of the small meeting place was over taxed. Could they have secured seats | it is likely couple of hundred would | have remained through the meeting.
 Dr. Foss started the meeting off right Dwight B. Heard was among | the early speakers. He dwelt at length | on the courage and fortitude of the | people of the lower valley who had | made their homes and investments | there, willing to wait for the railroad | told of the wonderful fertility of that | section. Aaron Goldberg spoke of the | interest Phoenix merchants had in de- | veloping that region. Judge Aims | worth spoke of the feasibility of the | enterprise. B. A. Fowler said it was | an excellent project and ought to be | encouraged, as, in fact, all the speak | CTS did. From that time on almost | everybody had a part in the speech | John Norton, H. M. Lewis, c. M.