Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-10-21

has assumed in its surrounding territory Globe should eventually acquire in the much richer mineral area that stretches away from her for miles on every side.
 The area commonly spoken of as the Globe district is marvel of its kind It has mineral wealth enough to make Globe great and pros porous city. But adjoining Globe district are other regions no less rich in copper deposits Capable mining men who have been in Payson district to the north say this region is destined to be great producing section. The ore, in many places is already discovered. But trans portation is lacking.
 The other proven mining regions lying east west and south of Globe have cities of various sizes, but for the whole country in which they are situated Globe, with suitable railroad facil- ites, would become the great distributing point for supplies necessary in conducting mining op- erations.
 The rich agricultural region of which Phoe- nix is the heart, will yield fortunes in farm products But the markets for that produce are now remote. Globe is one of them, but the pres ent railroad communication between Phoenix and Globe is roundabout. With the great growth of Globe to metropolitan dimensions and the pTONlulllS Ol OiIeCl tldillC NlIu Phoenix the farm products of the fertile Salt River valley will be largely consumed in Globe. For in Phoenix, where nearly every resident is interested more or less in the business of agri- culture, the supply of vegetables, fruits and grains is bound to be always far in excess of the local demand, and the surplus should find a ready market in Globe, the mining metropolis.
 From Globe, the supplies of mining machin- >lo1 lo4 this great southwestern territory will ultimate ly be distributed, for the most direct railway route to the great eastern and northern manu- featuring cities will pass through this city.
 Present tentative plans for railroad building include a Southern Pacific line from Globe to Durango, Colorado, the future source of the vast quantities of coke and coal that will be con- sumed by the mining and smeting industries of the southwest. Another road of which more or
 less authentic reports are now current will be built by Senator w. A. Clark from the Salt Lake line through the heart of the Payson country and onto Globe by way of Roosevelt With req sonable encouragement to the railway compan- ies, at least one transcontinental line east and west should be secured for this city Then, with Globe as the junction for the great railroad
 lines, from the north, south, east and west, the possibilities of Globe as the southwestern me- tropos unfold, and unmstakably assume the bona fde appearance of realities At least we may class these possibilities as future certain ties contingent upon only one thing the building of a railroad system with Globe as the hub and with lines radiating outward in all directions to bring this city in direct communication with the enormous area of mineral and agricultural lands of which it is designed by Nature to be the in- dustrial center.
 To encourage such railroad building by every possible means spells progress. To delay or prevent this railroad construction by the num- erous methods possible will give this city a ser ious and fatal setback. Globe needs the rail roads, the railroads need Globe. And it would be truly pitiable to see this thriving little met ropolis robbed by obstructonists of its natural share in the God-given industrial heritage of the great southwest