Arizona republican., 1910-06-22
RAPID BUILDING OF
 BUCKEYE RAILROAD
Track Will All be Laid by August Appreciated Cooperation Of the
 Settlers.

The construction work on the Buck eye railroad is proceeding with pleas ! ing rapdity and it looks as though the railroad company will make good all promises regarding the date of the ! completion of the road and possibly l will do little better than it said it would. It was stated yesterday by Engineer Carillo that the road would ! be opened for traffic by August 15, and possibly by August 10. It will probably be completed so d train can run over it by the last day of July.
 The track is now laid as far as the ! ostrich farm, twelve miles west of Phoenix and the grade is completed to the Agua Fria river. From that point on to the Hassayampa the line is coy cred with grading gangs. l. is eN pected the grading will be completed to the Hassayampa, the terminus for the present, by July 1j. Track will be laid to the terminus by August 1st. 1 Track laying is now proceeding at the rate of a mile and a quarter each day. On the grading and track work to- gether there are noy employ ed 800 head of stock and 500 men.
 MT. Carillo said he desired to thank the people along the line of the road for their cooperation in every way possible as far as they have gone They have helped him in the matter of fences and other things that enabled him to push the work along the right Of v,ly and he desires the fact to be known and also that their cooperation has been appreciated.
 ic 1a ing. Two or three of the residents Of the lower country who contributed to the bonus and the right of way to some extent have called upon him and served notice that they did not intend to pay their subscription to the bonus. He thought they were jol;ing but before they left they told him they were in earnest and gave their reason. They said that when they subscribed to the bonus they had no idea the road would ever be built and subscrib- ed only because they never expected they would have to pay. Mir Cadllo told them they had already got more than their money back in the iucreds- ed value of their lands The amounts were not large anyway and the com pany will keep on building just as though these men intended to pay and then. finally, it is altogether likely that they will pay
 But aside from one or two incidents of that kind. everything has gone along smoothly and the settlers for the most part fully appreciate what the building of the road means to them. They will be able to send this seasons crops to market by rail, within a very few months after they signed the bonus subscriptions.
 Traffic Manager F. :. Stubbs and Chief Engineer Long on Monday went over the line sizing up the prospects from traffic mans viewpoint, and came back greatly pleased with the probable freight tonnage during the coming fall. To make everything just as convenient as possible for the far mers a shipping siding will be placed every four and a half miles, making eight sidings between Phoenix and the west end of the line.
 One side track is novt in at the old Lutgerdng ranch, another at Fowler and there will be another opposite the Cashion ranch. The next will be at New Avondale west of the Agua E'ria There will be one between New Avon dale and Liberty one at Liberty, one between Liberty and Buckeye. two sidngs and a station at Buckeye, two sidings west of Buckeye and one at Arlington the end of the line.