Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-28

railway. However fond railroad companies may be of constructing closely parallel lines such methods are manfestly extravagant, and whatever the faults of corporations may be. reckless expenditure is not one of them.
 From Globe, the Silver Belt in April also announced, that the railroad to Durango would lead through the great region known as the Payson country including the town of Payson, and would pass from there northward to Flag staff and thence north and northeasterly to Durango, possibly taking in the Grand Canyon on the way.
 This line will connect, probably, at Farming ton, New Mexico, with the Denver X Rio Grande which will furnish through connections to Durango to Denver and the east. That the Silver Belt was neither merely advocating nor prophesying, but simply stating fact in describ- ing the proposed railroad and moreover, fact gained from reliable sources, is now conclusive ly shown by the surveys already made and still being made northward into the Payson country from Globe. Further assurance has been given recently that the force of men and teams now engaged in grading for the Globe Miami exten- sion will, when through working on that branch be transferred to the line laid out by the sur veyors and will begin grading work there i'm mediatey. The surveys made lead from Globe northward near the Superior X Boston mine and from there on toward Payson country in northern Gia county.
 While depriving the Herald of its delight in having played the seer so many years back we must also, in the interest of truth, take or- sacion to say that far from giving great i'm petus to Fl Paso and its industries, the line to the Durango coal fields will afford direct trans portation for fuel to the great mines of Ari- zona, thus doing away with the necessity of hay ing it shipped by way of El Paso. If this be promise of augmented industrial activity for Fl Paso, the Herald may make the most of it, and welcome.
 Another railway project which the Silver Belt long since forecasted is the construction of the line from San Carlos to Winkleman, thus af fording connection with Phoenix and the lines to the west The eastward extension of this road leads down the Gila valley to Solomon ville fom there on to Guthrie, New Mexico, and thence to the Gulf of Mexico over lines already built. Once more E Paso, and Tucson as we'll. is left out of the path of traffic by direct road to the east Globe on the other hand, will then be practically on two transcontinental lines railroad It will be the repair and supply cen ter for four divisions and the plans for ex- tensve additions to its already large and we'll equipped yards and shops have already been made In short, Globes future as railroad and commercial center is one golden with prom ise. And if in this the worthy Herald can find any ground for Fl Pasoan congratulations to these, too, it is also welcome.
 Not to emulate our border contemporary by wild flights of fancy but adhering simply to fact, we can see nothing to be derived by Fl Paso from the contemplated railway plans ex- cept restriction instead of widening of her territory. That Globe, on the contrary, will shortly become the greatest distributing and shipping center for the rich mining, farming and timber country of central and northern Ari zona, with all its tremendous possibilities realized by adequate transportation is neither fiction, nor exaggeration, but glowing reality.
 Mir. Taft knows moreover, that in the bright lexicon of gofology there are no such words as "that hazard is too much for me-"