Arizona republican., 1909-10-13
MR. MURPHY SPEAKS i OF RAILROAD RUMORS
PERlAL TO THE GULF.
The Glendale B uckeye' Matter. Min ing and General Business
 Activity.

P. & P. B. P. Cheney of Boston. a | director and one of the heaviest stock
 holders of the Atchison system and Victor l.. Mason of New York. the as-
 sistant during the national campaign,
 of Chairman Frank II. Hitchcock of
 the national Republican committee, ar rived in town from the north yester-
 day morning to take part in the re-
 ception of President Taft. They came
 in the private car of Mir. Cheney. They
 did not go as was expected with the | governors committee to Yuma last
 night but this afternoon they will go
 north, following the presidential train | and will accompany the presidential party to the Grand Canyon and will
 remain with it as long as it is travel
 ing on the Santa Fe system, that is, as far ss Fl Paso.
 Thence MT. Cheney will go east but
 MT. Murphy and Mir Mason will re- turn and visit the properties of the
 Development Company of America at
 Imperial. and probably at Tombstone. They will return to Phoenix in about ten days.
 MT. Murphy was asked if it was a fact that the project 0f building a rail- road from Imperial to a point on the gulf was under consideration. He re- piled that engineers were in the field looking over the ground but that no
 definite plans had yet been outlined.
 The constantly enlarging operations Of
 the copper company. the increased ca
 pacity of the shelter and the greater
 volume of shipments as the surround
 ing territory is being opened. made
 most desirable a deep water connection
 but the matter of the cost will have
 to be carefully looked into.
 Regarding operations on the Arizona
 X California MT. Murphy said that the grading outfit was now on the ground and that the work would be pushed without cessation until a connection with the main line has been established at Bengal. He said that trains ought to be running over the line by the first of May next.
 Being asked as to any information he might have regarding the extension of the-PhoeniS & Easternshe said: As l told you before, do not know what the Southern Pacific intends to do. I hear that it intends to put the line through the canyon at an early day but I have had no authentic informa- ton on that subject"
 MT Murphy was asked regarding the 1 matter of d road from Glendale into | the Buckeye country of which some | mention has been made. Said he: | That is matter requiring careful | consideration and it is entirely possi- | bic that such a line may be built. Per sonally, l favor it. l believe it would | be good thing for the Buckeye coun- try; d good thing for Phoenix and | Glendale. and d good thing for the $. | F. P. & P.
 Speaking of the visit of Secretary of the Interior Ballinger to the valley, MT. Murphy said that it was his un- that it was his purpose to look over the reclamation project here as elsewhere on his tour of the west, and said he: "I hope he may be able to visit Parker in whose vicin- ity there are several thousands of acres of the richest land easily sus- ceptible of reclamation.
 Mir. Murphy was asked as to his inn | pression of the business outlook for the territory. He said: "It is much | better than 1t has ever been. I look | for great activity in all lines, begin ming this fall and believe it will con tinue indefinitely and extend as it con- tinues. The prospect for the territory in my opinion has never been so bright as it is at this moment"
 On the subject of mining operations in the north. MT. Murphy said: ''The United States Smelling company, un- derstand, intends to make extensive improvements in its smelter at Needles and will put 1t into commission at an early day. It is expected that it will l draw heavily on the mines along the A. & C. for ore. The work of resusci- | tating the Humboldt smelter is still going on and it is reported that one of the company's mines, the Blue Bell, | is opening up splendidly.'
 As to his own mining operations, MT. said in reply to a question re- yarding the recent purchase of the Crown King that that property had been taken over by the Yavapa! Con and that the company would at once proceed to put it in shape for operation.