Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-09
RICH LANDS
 THROWN IN
 TIE MARKET
By Spending $50, o,0o0, 900 Oil
 Mexican Lines Hartman : Will Open 600, 900 Acres of
 IrrigabIe Area.

NEW YORK. April s.-Bronzed by his weeks. of soj-urn under southern skies and br mn ng over with vital ity, E. H. Hartman reached here late today to all apps arances a re-iavigor- ated man after his trip over the net work of Hartman roads in the west and southwest and in Mexico
 Amercan In tistive Needed.
 ''I have been made to asy that we were constructing a Inc down the west coast of Mexico" he said. "Waat should have been said was that we ready nave constructed it. The line is now completed from Nogales. Ariz., on the Mexican line to Mazat- Ian, Mex. and Tn reality a new coun- try has been d 'scoyered by th.s ra.l- road ccnstructicn. h one trs3t orenfd up b. irrigation 600.0A9 acres of the best of land are mBde availatle O. cuiua ation and Opeped 10 a mar ket American nelp needed n the 0,v lope ent. Yes. in a directive way. There is plsEfy of labtr 5Et Am rican in ti3tive and executive abi ity vii count here as elsewhere.
 Sentiment Greatly Changed.
 MT. Harr man sa I le found in the west and scuthSest a vastly changed sentiment toward ;he r.'ilriads. iWth such sent mentthere would be en- cOuragement for the railroads to go ahead with development work, he thCugAt.
 Repeal of oppressive state laws is imperative" he declared, If the rail rOAd hnes. the people need and that the raurC ads want to bui d are to be constructed. The truth is the states the example of the national govern ment
 Asked as to possible wage reduc- tions by the railroads. Mir. Harrimaa ss-4u.
 We have not even considered the matter and shall mt so long as we can affoId to pay"
 Exp -na.tIreof S5o,o0o, 900 Likely.
 Mir. Hartman sid aDout Sl,UOV,000 had alIeaoy been spent on the South srn PIciLc's Mexlcan line exts nsions and net imprcbItle an expenditure of S50,000,0O0 altogether would be necessary to complete the work.
 Hartman said tEe SoutLern Pacific exf ected to make a sncc ss of it's .rri- gat on D ant in Southern Cali.orn a, oespte the difficu ties wlich he de- clared were being put in the com Ianys way by the government
 We saved 600.000 CT 700,0 acres of valuable arab.e lands forall time by cur prompt work at the tine of the Colorado river inTush," he said. T am convinced that we acted only four or ve days ahead of the time when that land for all practical uses would have been forever lost to Ie- clamation."
 Prophesies Conflict
 In speaking of the plans fer divert ing the wattr back of Laguna dam wa'ch the government is sa' d to have in contemplat' on. NIT. Hartman fCre- shafcwrd a ocnfl ct between the Southern Pacific and the federal au- thor tiss.
 They are now planning to build a ditch from this dam down into Mex leo, and back into California, wh ch will interfere with cur irrigation pro jects," said Mir. Hartman. "They say they are gsing to spen1 four or five million d7l ars in doing this, but they might as wei save the money It may be somewhat incOnvenie1t for us to do it, but it trey carry out the'r plan We will build a ga ditch line back of the rs and get the water for irrigating our land in spite oi them"
 Thinks G-v.rnmert Unfair.
 Mir. Hartman did net conceal the fact that he felt that the Southern Pacific had done great work in saw ing ire Imperial Nalsy andthat the government is acting unfairly 'a try ing to take advantage of the f7n Ter irrigating lands other than tlcse through wh,ch the Scut1e7n Jaclhc runs