Mohave County miner., 1910-04-23
Corporate Power.

New York Central Railroad company
has purchased seventeen full city
blocks. 1t required seven years to
accomplish that and cost $4,000, ,OOOS.
Then the old structures were demolish-
ed, the subways were constructed one
after the other until three of them
were finished, and now the surface
buildings have been commenced.
They are to cost l3O,OOo,OO0S more,
making the whole thing the most
gigantic undertaking ever proposed
by single corporation. The depot
building will cover four full blocks
and will be twenty stories in height
above ground, the largest office build
ing in the world. All the buildings to
cover those seventeen blocks are to
harmonic, and all be on a scale more
colossel and magnificent than was ever
attempted before. The finished work
will make all the ancient seven
wonders of the world look like thirty
cents by comparison. But the tall
buildings are not to be built on a guess
for the future. Tne architects figured
that railroad terminal that last year
handled 2O,2l6, 900 passengers, made it
the greatest traffic center in the
world, and then figured, the ground
space and subway space being ap-
propriated, how much of the air-space
above would be needed and made their
plans accordingly. And, further, it is
figured out that all these structures
will be self-supporting. There will be
the thunder of forty-five railroad
tracks, all instinct with moving trains
in and through the mighty labyrinth.
A constant reminder that the present
industrial age of steel, has awakened
a diapason there which is never to
cease. The above is but an outline.
The Times of New York gives full il
lustrations and a graphic description
of the whole titanic work. In the
meantime Congress is discussing its
power over corporations, and that fact
provokes the question of where and
how this official control over interests
so gigantic is to be intelligently ad-
justed.
Tne average congressman could not
in many days acquire any real con-
ception of what tnis work in New York
includes in its designs. And this is
but one of the mighty corporations
which, by the use of tremendous
wealth, by the employment of thous-
ands of men, by having in there SER
vice the foremost mechanical, en-
gineering and legal ability of the
nations, are each building empires
upon this soil and every year dedicat-
ing new and grander temples than
we're ever thought of before to mark
their capitals and to show the omnip- |
otence of their power. To cut off
few miles of track and eliminate some
grades and curves Mr.. Hartman |
spent 5,0J0,0G0S on the Lucin cutoff. |
What would he not have done had he |
been spared fifteen years longer? |
What terminal plans would he have |
envolved and how would he have |
equipped them. And real railroading
in the United States has all been
created in the life-times of men still
living. What will it be in half
century more? And what will its
Faal % hn L.
The rage now is for money; what part
will these transportation agencies play
in their relations with the govern
ment? In that time the locomotive
may be banished, but if it shall be,
something more splendid will be
and more elaborate WAYS
will be devised to make the people pay
tribute to these combines which are
already almost stronger than the
government.-Goodwin's Weekly.
Adzonian Gets Trace OF Fortune.
Tne Phoenix Gazette has the fol-
lowing TO say:
"Tnrongh following the advice of a
fortune teller, Robert Turnbull, the
of 2l3 East Washington
street, has learned that his father,
Robert J. Turnbull, who disappeared
from Flagstaff nineteen years ago,
recently died in II -un. Nebraska, I
leaving an estate valued at 25.OOOS. ;
The estate will be inherited by Mr..
rurnbull's widow and two sons, Robert :
and Leonard A, all of whom live in
this city.
Robert J. Turnbull was a railroad !