Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-11
ROAD BEING PUSHED SOUTH
 IF NACOzAR|
Operations of Southern Pacific and Mining Company In Mexico Are Going Forward With. 9 Vim

CUMPAS. Sonora, April S-(Special Correspondence.)- )-An i'm pol t movement that may mean much to the future of the MocteZuma district has been initiated by the prefect, Senor Francisco Chiapa. The move ment looks to securing from all mine operators, merchants, cattlemen ana others interested in this part of the district lying south of Nacozari, an estimate of what their approximate freight tonnage would amount to in case the section were supplied with railroad transportation. To this end, Senor Chiapa has invited parties to send him such estimates, and in due time he will call a meeting in Moe tezuma in order that the data may be put into concrete shape, and, with ap- propriate resolution, be forwarded to
 Col. Epes Randolph of the Southern
 Pacific at Tucson.
 For obvious reasons. the work of
 railway construction has been pushed from the south rather than from Ma coari down towards Moctezuma, the
 reasons being that the C., R. r. and
 P. naturally desires to avoid, as much as possible, hauling men and sup niles over other than it's own lines. Therefore. we find today on construc-
 ton work below Nacozari, to which point the Southern Pacific has to haul men and materials over Phelps, Dodge and company's roads, only some three or four hundred men, or number sufficient to simply comply ] with the terms of the concession, which calls for the construction Of a certain number of kilometers each | year. Whereas. on the line cOnverg- i ing from the south, where the entire | haul is over their own system, there | is force of some two thousand men | Notwithstanding the aforementlon- | ed conditions. 1t is reliably known
 here, from letters from MT. Randolph and other authentic sources that, pro vided a potential tonnage can be i shown. sufficient to justify such ac- | ton. the company is more than dis posed to throw a large force of men below Nacozari and to shove the road through to a quick connection with the line ascending the Yaqui river. As probably S5 per cent of the road bed from Nacozarf through the box canyon and to point only eleven miles from Cumpas is now completed and ready for rails, a force of two thousand men could put the road into Cumpas within four months, and to | Moctezuma-only 20 miles further south-within six months and close lup the gap between the two lines oi l14O miles within eighteen months.
 Great Mines Await Railroads.
 Such great mines as the Promon
 torio and Gav.lan. now lying dormant
 and the Lampazos and Transvaa
 groups only partially active, with rail
 road transportation realized or ever imminent. would spring into new lif'
 and at once become feeders for thu
 railroad. The Transvaal smelter a Cumpas. which, before the panic O last year, was exporting and import ing a daily tonnage of perhaps 10
 tons. would quickly resume produC ton and doubtless increase to h } maximum capacity under the stimu
 lus of reduced freight rates and ger } eral prosperity.
 To sum up, there Is an enormou ~ potential freight tonnage in this dis trict south of NacoZari, and even wer - normal conditions restored, ther 3 would be sufficient traffic to make c railroad pay. With a road actuall S in operation. tapping as 1t VII tn 6 heart of Sonora-naturally the ricl { est mining region of the globe.-g1' 2 ing it an outlet to the states throug l. Douglas. and Naco, and Nogales, an 4 direct connection with the seaport y Guaymas and the City of Mexico, tn h district, with it's great mines alread r. named and those north of Nacozai
 still greater because more deyelopt ! and long known to fame, such e Pilares, Tigre. Cinco de Mayo. D' s Cabezas and others, this district vii c- It's boundless mineral resources aI |. unlimited possibilities will veritab IS become the miners land of promis e overfiowing with the wealth of all | B. precious metals.