Arizona republican., 1910-04-23
ARIZONA SOUTHERN EXT. '+' UNDER CONSTRUCTION
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Port lobos As a Summer Resort for Phoenix. Casa Grande Farming
 Project.

The firm of Blake. Losing X Wood
 ward. cement contractors of this city.
 is not only doing business in the line
 it's name indicates, but has undertaken
 project for the development of ten
 sections of land in the vicinity of Casa
 Grande. that it is interesting to know
 about That. however. is incidental to
 another story of even greater interest just now for it illustrates a point most
 people do not properly appreciate. and
 that is the nearness of Casa Grande and Phoenix to tidewater at Port LobOs
 on the Gulf of California.
 Mir. Woodward says that he is just now engaged in trying to find out more about Port Lobos; what there is there. if anything. or in that part of Mexico. with view of making it the beach resort for Central America Not that Mfr. Woodward just now plans on
 building a bathhouse or booming beach lots. but merely by his example of spending q part of the summer there. if there are any convenences at all
 set the Arizona people to thinking
 Mir. Blake was mp from Casa Grande a few days ago and told MT. Woodward that last Saturday or Sunday an auto mobile load of Casa Grande people left that town al s o'clock in the morning and motored down to- Port Lobos in between four and five hours. fishcd all afternoon and returned the next day with wagon load of fine ocean fish which they peddled out to all Casa Grande. The town had a regular fish fiesta getting it's supply onlv a few hours from salt water. The point made is the nearness of Port Lobos and the fact that there is now q fine automobile road nearly all the way over good smooth mesa country. assuming. of course. that one knows where to go.
 The Casa Grande men. some of whom are the engineers for the Blake. Loss ing X Woodward company. said that Port Lobos is now quite busy place The building of the extension of the Arizona Southern railroad from Silver bell to Port Lobos is no longer mere talk but is in actual progress from the Port Lobos end. \ big force of men and teams and scrapers is now engaged in throwing dirt as fast as possible. it being necessary to get some seventy or eighty kilometers finished by Sep tember to comply with some concession. probably from the Mexican govern ment. Not a great deal was learned about the road for their stay was short but they could see for themselves what is being done.
 The interesting facts are that in the very near future one may probably leave Phoenix and reach Port LobOs in half night. if connections are good, by rail. and he can now make the trip in a day by automobile if he wants to and knows where to go. It is likely there is little or nothing there yet in the way of public conveniences ar enter but there may be at no dis tant day. and while it will never be regarded as frigid country it is said to be quite cool and comfortable along the sea shore, even if there are inter vening deserts.
 Concerning the farming enterprise of the company named Mir. Woodward said he did not care h speak al length. He would only say that the company has ten sections of as fine soil as can be found in this valley or anywhere else. a few miles south of Casa Grande. and that 1t proposes to farm #. Some If it has been cultivated heretofore by dry farming but the present owners will sink wells the coming fall and winter and irrigate by pumping. They expect to get good crop in next win ter. Moreover. it is not a colonjZing scheme but a real farming enterprise. It is good land and if a colOnist could make anything a company can and it proposes to do so.