Arizona republican., 1909-10-22
SUBURBAN RAILWAY
 PROJECT MATURING " TAe COMPANY IS SUFFICIENTLY FINANCED TO BEGIN WORK.  1t Now Asks For the Cooperation and Financial Encouragement of
 Property Owners.

Some months ago a franchise was
 voted. giving the Suburban Railway ! company street privileges in the city of Phoenix. Since then little has been
 heard of the project until recently. but
 it has never for a moment been neg / lected. It was merely held in statu { quo until the time for action arrived
 and pending the execution of prelimi-
 naries. The directors of the company | held a meeting on the 18th and am
 nounce now that they are ready to do business if properly encouraged. for 1 a railroad is seldom built without some substantial encouragement outside of i the mana oement and the good wishes i of the public.
 ! The company announces that il now has sufficient capital on call to fully construct three or four miles of road. I but that 1t does not intend to begin operations until 1t knows what can be 1 done after that. The original project i was to connect Glendale and Phoenix by 2 line running north from the city on. some desirable street or road for a few miles, thence westerly to Glen dale. Subsequently the people of Scottsdale offered some Inducements to have the road turn east instead of west and go to that well known point in the orange belt. There is no phy- sical reason why the line cannot take the general form Of letter T and go to both places. if there is sufficient en- eouragement
 Also the plans of the company are that when t does build. the track will De of standard gauge and heavy steel and modern in all it's equipment It is proposed to handle both freight and passengers by using up-to-date pas senger and express combination cars during the day and at night running freight trains, using when desirable. the ordinary steam road freight cars. switched to its track and propelled by an electric car The idea is to give the farmers both transportation and passenger service direct to their farms and also to give the urban and su- burban population first class street car service
 It is certain that such a transporta- tion line will greatly enhance the value of all the property for a half mile or more on each side of it's rights of way wherever it may be. and the company feels that the property owners will consider 1t to their advantage to not only give the right of way but finan- cial encouragement beside. IL Is un- derstood that the present street car company in a similar way has asked for approximately sS000 per mile from property and land owners. for the ex- tension Of its system. The Suburban does not expect quite so liberal treat ment but its promoters believe that they ought to be able to secure in the neighborhood of ssG0O per mile. IL is not projected as a rival or competitor with the present system. its chief pur- pose being to open up new country not served by the present line.
 The Suburban will shortly put an engineer in the field equipped with maps and plats showing the owner ship Of all the property in the region desired to be penetrated, to ascertain where ani on what terms it can se- cure the best right of way. and how liberal property owners near by will be in the encouragement of building. It has specified no preferable route so far except the general plan of going north some distance and then to Glen dale and possibly to Scottsdale. The company's franchise enables it to en- ter the city. or leave it. practically wherever it wants to, and that part of it could soon be settled if it was planned to build only three or four miles. for which 1t now has sufficient money. but for obvious reasons it does not want to begin building until plans are at least fairly well worked out for the extensions to objective points.
 We're the company to proceed and build to the limit of it's present re- sources it might be stopped at that point permanently by the securing of rights of way by proposed rival com panies. or by the hold-up game of the occasional property owner found in every community who places an unrea- sonable price on rights of way that ought to be donated. merely because he thinks the corporation must meet his terms. Ii is for that reason that the company at this time announces that fl is ready to do business but will not do so until the people to be bene- fitted in part, express their sentiments The road is projected as the matur- ing of two ideas. The first is that it will settle uo and enhance the value Of adjacent lands. in some of which the promoters are interested. though their holdings are small as compared with what Is owned by others. The other idea is that while such a rail road may not immediately be a divi- dend payer. by the closer settlement -9 the country it will eventually do so and in the meantime will be stim- ulus to the general development of the city and valley.
 The directors of the company are C. R. King. Geo NJ. Hahn. J. W. Doris, B. A. Fowler and E. J. Bennitt The officers of the company are c. B. King. president: J. W. Doris, vice president: E. J. Bennitt, treasurer, and T. J. Prescott, secretary.
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