Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-05-22
RAILROAD WHISTLE
WILL BLOW NOV.
THAT is DATE SCHEDULED FOR
FIRST TRAIN TO BUCKEYE.
It Will Probably Take Until Christmas
to Tap the Arlington Country.

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trains will be running to Buckeye, and
by Christmas the railroad will reach
the Arlington country across the Has
sayampa That is pretty strong talk
but 1t is given out by the committees
as the real medicine, guaranteed to
do the work if the people most TO be
benefited keep up the interest they
have shown in the last few days, and
each does his part to help push the
good thing along. The statement is
conditioned only on the securing of
the right of way and the bonus. The
right of way is practically assured
by events of the last two or three
days and if the settlers In the lower
valley keep their faith, as there is
no doubt they will, in respect of the
bonus.
An automobile full of large calibre
railroad guns will make a foray into
| the Buckeye field next Tuesday for
the purpose of finding out whether
the Buckeye people are in earnest
and if they are it will be as good
as settled. The committee will spend
two days in Buckeye and Arlington
and proposes to hold a mass meeting
Wherever il catches a settler, be he
man, woman or child. The committee
expects to come back and tell the
Phoenix people that the railroad is a
go and the promoters can hook up
the old mule to the scraper and be-
gin throwing dirt as soon as they
want to. The committee proposes
to promise the Buckeye and Airing
ton just what is stated at the head
of this column, conditioned only on
their keeping faith and signing up
the bonus asked for. The right of
way is considered as good as settled.
There is a little more detail work
on this end of it but it is felt that
the plans agreed to will meet the
approval of all and that the crisis
has been passed.
The Buckeye people said they would
consent TO the bonus if they did not
have to pay it until they got the rail-
road. Very sensibly they did not want
to pay their money until they saw
the goods. The railroad people agreed
to the condition. They will go a
little further now and get the railroad
down there this year, six months be-
fore the bonus will become due, which
will be July l, 1910. 1t is proposed
to let the farmers market a crop by
rail before their bonus comes due
and if they don't save enough money
on the crop to pay the bonus the
mathematieians and agricultural ex-
perts in this section have forgotten
how to figure.
The committee which has agreed to
go to Buckeye next Tuesday consists
of r. p. Davie, general manager of
the Southwestern Sugar company; c.
T. Hirst. interested in real estate; c.
B. King, an experienced railroad
builder; John r. Norton, an agricul-'
tural patriarch in this county and
also experienced in railroad construc-
ton work; II. NJ. Lewis, who has both
a public and a private personal in
terest in every community in this
county except the insane asylum. and
Sheriff Hayden, a member of the
Phoenix & Buckeye Railroad company
and a fearless peace officer. who will
be in a position to restrain anybody
who tries to start a rough house by
throwing money at the committee too
fast. Mr.. Davie has subscribed heav
lily to the bonus himself and he is
encouraging others to do so. He is
familiar with developing projects and
knows what a railroad to Buckeye will
mean for this whole section. He is
himself a builder of big things and
thus far he has made no fatal mis-
take and does not expect to in this
instance This committee will start
in at Liberty and go through the
whole settlement. 1t hopes and ex-
poets to be well received and hopes
the farmers of the lower country will
be giving the matter careful consid
Grafton and be ready to say what
they will do very promptly, for if this
schedule is kept it win mean that
there must be no delay in the be-
ginning of construction work.
Concerning the right of way the
only trouble experienced was the four
miles at the Phoenix end of the line,
a territory that would reap the least
direct benefit from this transporta-
ton line, so far as freights are con-
cerned. at least in the immediate flu
ture, and yet the section where the
acreage value of the right of way
is greatest But there is more than
one side to every question and these
lands may benefit in other ways where