Arizona republican., 1910-12-17
YEARLY PAYROLL OF MILLIONS
Much of This Money Will Be Spent in This City and Arizona Eastern Will Keep Pace With the De mands of Community.

That Hayden in a few short months
 will become one of the most impor- tant industrial centers in Arizona and in a few years second only to Phoe- nix in point of population and com mercial activity. is the prediction made by Chief Engineer Louis Long. of the Arizona Eastern yesterday. And that the Arizona Eastern is planning to keep pace with the growth of population and business of that section was the further asser- tion of Mir Long.
 According to the statement of Mir Long yesterday his visit to Phoenix at this time has nothing -to do with the future of the Arizona Eastern in the Hayden district. He is how ever. interested in keeping in touch with the developments in that sec tion. He declined to enter into a discussion of the details of the work now being carried on at Hayden. but treated the subject in general way.
 ''The development of the Hayden district along the lines now planned and being carried rapidly to a reality means more for Phoenix than any one other project now under way The establishment of a daily payroll mounting well into the the thousands of dollars cannot but mean that the best part of that money will be spent right here in this city. l am not in possession of sufficient authentic in- formation to venture a guess as to how many men may find employment at Hayden when the shelter and con centrator are running but it cannot fail to be somewhere between two and three thousand men and pOssi- bly more.
 Just think what the payroll of that small army of men will amount to in the course of a year. It will be well along in the millions and be- cause Phoenix is the largest city within a short distance of Hayden it necessarily follows that the best part of that money will come here.
 The wholesalers in Phoenix will also feel the effects of the increased trade just as soon as Hayden starts on the increase. With the railroad facilities the Arizona Eastern will be able to afford connecting the two
 
 Phoenix will become mutual. I am frank in saying that I know of no town or enterprise in Arizona with the bright prospects for the imme- diate future as those of the Hayden district.
 The Ray Consolidated Copper com pany will have the largest single pro- ducing mine. probably in Arizona. Its smelter and concentratOr will handle thousands of tons of ore daily and the Arizona Eastern must keep pace with the demands of this great in- 1 dustry both as regards the hauling of 1 the ore as well as the shipment out i of the finished product. For the | present all this finished product must | be brought down to Tempe and taken | out that way to the main line of the | Southern Pacific"
 When Daniel C. Jackling. vice ! president and general manager of the | Ray Consolidated Copper company | was in this city last week, he stated l that the smelter will be blown in l about February Is of next year In ! the meantime it is expected that the | equipment of the Ray and Gila Val | ley railroad, which is the Ray com ! pany property. running from Ray to Kelvin where connection is made with | the Arizona Eastern will have been | received and placed in operation. This | equipment for the present will con- sist of 100 siXty-ton steel cars to be used in the transportation of ore | to the smelter.
 So it is safe to presume that that | another two months will witness a growth at Hayden and | an increase in the number of men at present employed at Ray. It is be- lieved that ultimately upwards of | 1000 men will find employment with the company and these together with their families will create a thriving [, little city.