Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-31
MininQ SmeItGrS and Stock Quotations
WANT BETTER RAIL
 ROAD CONNECTIONS
Duffy Would Separate Probate JudgeShip and School
 SuperintendenCy,
(Phoenix Repubiican)

Tn the recent hearing in the suit of the government tG dissolve the so- called Hartman merger. it was shown by inc testimony of President Frank M Murphy Of the $. F., P. & F., Mir. Victor Morawatz and President James Douglas of the Fl Paso & Southwest erri. why Phoenix dCes not now hap pen to be on a transcOntinental line as we all expected to be before this and as Ee probably would be If the Southern Pacific had not resented what 1t considered an invasion Of it's territory.
 According to the terms on which the Phoenix & Eastern was taken over, the Southern Pacific was to com plete the line to an outlet on the man line, fl not, as was understood then by come of its local officials, to Dem ing, \. M.. where Jhere is also a Santa Fe connection. That was cn objective point when tho Phoenix & Eastern was begun.
 IL Is to be presumed that the Southern Pacific really intended to carry on the necessary extension of the Phoenix & Eastern. It had not only assumed such an obligation to this country and the santa Fe, but such an extension would evidently have been to it's financial advantage. The plan of the original builders in yOlved a further ourlay of SS.OO0, ,O0O or SlO.0O0.0 900. l. would probably have cost tho Southern Pacific half as much to carry the line through the GiGcult Gila CanTon to San Carlos. not great sum apparently at that time.
 The Southern Pacific however. was furnished ab excuse for delay in tho anti-railroad agitation which spTane up all over the country. making l; 1 impossible to obtaii money for rail road construction anywhere in tho United States. st any rate. the Southern Pacific suspended construc- tion in this country, though all the time it was actively engaged on its Mexican lines.
 The people who could furnish the money-not the railroad people need not have feared for their In- vestments in this territory, for Ari. zona has always dealt with railroads in q spirit of liberality and fairness, recognizing in them necessities to the development of the country. There was no hostile legislation, Tn which l respect this territory stood almost alone among the western, middle and southern states. But of course the in- vestors could not understand this, though the railroads did. and we suf- tered with the rest of the country, a i paralysis of railroad construction. However valid that excuse for the delay of operations or the Phoenix < Eastern then was. it no longer holds. [ The scare is over; money is coming | out of it's hiding places: the states are undOing their hostile and paralyz. , ing legislation and the time has come Tor the Southern Pacific to fulfill its promise to the Santa Fe and dis. charge its obligation to central and southern Arizona by the co1sstructioI. of the line to Benson and after that is
 completed, to DcminE or to a point or the Gila Valley. Globe G Northern.
 There should be as little delay in the completion of the Arizona 4 Cal ifornia road Co Bengal In the mean. time great loss Is constantly aecrrir1c
 to this valley. to P1nal county. ;c
 southern Arizona and to the great country lying within the sphere Of the
 uncompleted Arizona G California.
 The roads ought 10 have no fear o'
 the fTiendhncss and fairness oI rhl
 people Of this territory. who. asids
 from tho ordinary sentiment oC nor
 aiity. especially al this time. find fair ness 10 be financially advantageous jr {. Arizona