Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-17
RAILROAD PLANNED LARGE MINING SECTION

Today it was learned that the plans
 of the California syndicate which has
 just taken over the Pintos group of
 claims in Mexico may include not only the extensive development of the
 Mexican claims, which are considered
 among the richest gold properties in
 the Sierra Pintos, but also the exten- sion of the railway line acquired with the recent purchase, says the Tucson Citizen. This line, which now extends from the Bay of St. George to the mines, a distance of 16 miles, will, it is understood, be extended to the Mexican border. Just what point will be touched is not yet known. From the border, however, another line will be constructed, according to present plants, to Sasco. This will give the
 mine operators rail communication with the Southern Pacific, if current reports are to be credited, for it is said that the Silverbell line ais to be extended shortly, and it is said to be probable that the two extensions will be brought into touch with each oth- CT, giving a direct line from the Gulf of California to the Southern Pacific at Red Rock.
 Indications today are that this is but part of gigantic scheme of rail road building which has long been un- der contemplation and has for its ul- innate object the construction of a trunk line north and south, to inter for points from the Gulf of California to the northwest, presumably to Salt Lake. The scheme was first brought into notoriety through the efforts of the promoter of the old Cape Lobos proposition and at one time an op- portunity was held out to Tucson to secure this through line, which, it was purposed, to build from the cape to Salt Lake. For several years the proposition has lain idle, the company, however, still holding the concession from the Mexican government Re- gently The Citizen published the story of an effort to secure this concession, the rumOr at that time being that the Rock Island was after the property an idea which is not considered at all improbable in the light of present Rock Island plans in the southwest Today it is rumored that even yet the Rock Island may be an active factor in the manipulation of railroad build ing from the gulf country to the northwest, via interior points.
 Just who is really financing the Pintos mining deal .has not yet come to the surface. While Capt Thomp- son of Los Angeles is ostensibly at the head of affairs he is known to have several associates, whose names he refused to divulge to a reporter for The Citizen while in this city yesterday. This fact lends a fasci- hating mystery to the deal-one which, perhaps, only considerable time will unravel.
 It is no longer a secret that the Imperial Copper company is planning the extension of it's railway line, now in operation from Red Rock, on the main line of the Southern Pacific, to to some point on the Mexi- can border, with a view of reaching deep water on the Gulf of California This fact, taken into consideration with the reported plans of the new owners of the Pintos mines to extend their 16 miles of railway to Sasco, Ariz., gives considerable eoloring to the supposition that the two concerns may work in harmony to get a through line from the gulf to the main line of the Southern Pacific.
 With all this mileage constructed it is pointed out that the financing of the remainder of a through line to Salt Lake would be an easy mat ter.