Arizona republican., 1911-11-24
WHEN ARIZONA OWNS
 PORT 0N THE GULF
PROPOSED PURCHASE OF STRIP
 OF MExiCO'S LAND.

That Arizona expects. when it slips
 into the mantle of statehood. to as-
 sume new dignities. not political, is in
 dicated in d recent statement made bv
 Ralph H Cameron. republican nomin, a for United States senator, says the Los
 Angeles Times. With the idea of bay
 ing the government make Arizona a
 seacoast state by opening d harbor on
 the Gulf of California, thereby esta5- fishing the nearest deep sea habor to
 the Panama canal, MT. Cameron. if elected. will introduce a resolution au-
 thorizing the state department to open l negotiations with the Mexican govar,l- ment.
 Cameron says the plan to be embol- jed in the proposed resolution is 10 purchase from Mexico at a generous figure the strip of land extending from q point on the southern boundary of Arizona to the Gulf of California some distance below the mouth of the Colo rado river, approximately on the thir- ty-firSt parallel. He said that one thing that called his attention to the possibility of making such a purchase from Mexico was the difficulty experi- enced by that government during the recent revolution in transporting | troops to the extreme northwest part of the republic, which is the very strio Of country necessary to purchase # Arizona is to be made a seacoast state Cameron further said that with the assistance of Hoval A Smith, the other republican nominee for United States senator, he has assembled facts anl| figures which show how practical tho proposed plan is: that he has talked with men high in the councils of the country, and they are attracted to the plan to open another big harbor for the southwestern states. In conclu-
 sion, Cameron said he was not at lib-
 erty at this time to speak of the dipIo-
 matic phases which may be dtvelopel
 ir connection with this international
 proposal
 The great industries of Arizona, in
 cluding mining and smeltng and it's expanding agriculture, would be largely
 benefited if the plan proposed by Mr.
 Cameron becomes a reality In this connection il can also be said that
 Winkclman is at present the center of
 one of the busiest localities in the n,.,v d
 Mexican settlement at the confluence
 of the Gila and san Pedro rivers, and | the terminus of the Phoenix and East | ern branch of the Southern Pacific l railroad. ! Within this period the Ray Consoli- ! dated Copper company has built an ! immense concentrating plant. with al maximum capacity of 10000 tons q da,. |
 at cost of s3,5O0.0 900 The American
 Smelting and Refining company (the | l Guggenheims) has broken ground for. i and is now employing over 500 men iI.. | 1 the construction of the largest custom | smelter in the state. This plant will l have an initial capacity of 1000 tons | daily. and will call for the expenditure | 1 Of $l,500.O00. Within hess than twelve | months there will have been expended | 1 at Winkelman more than 5000, ,O0O in | ] industrial plants for the reduction eff the ores of that region
 The Southern Pacific companv has completed its branch as far as Christ mas. the location of the properties of the Gila Copper Sulphiie company. and will begin soon to extend the line ltD the Gila canyon tO connect with tfc
 
 at Bowie. This will call for an outlay of something like $2,5)O,OO0 for con- struction and equipment Rosy antici- pations-not to call them blue sky are indulged in by large investors in those parts" but who shall say that the picture is too highly cOlored? AL most anything is possible along tho pathway of the course of empire
 It is asserted that within a radius oe thirty miles of this new smelting plant there are now blocked out and in sight more than 15O.OOO.OO tons Of ore.
 As soon as the Southern Pacific has completed the line to San Carlos anl connected Globe with Winkelman all of these ores will be tributary to the new plant of the Guggenheims. The amount of money already expended in the de- velopment of the properties tributary to Winkelman, and in the building of reduction works and railroads runs in- to millions. and there are still other great projects under way calling for more millions.
 In addition to the $7,5OO. 900 invo'vei in the construction of the Ray ConsoIi--I dated mill. the Guggenheim shelter. anu tuc TdllTOdu DTdnCneS, the Ray . Central Copper company will build a mill at cost of about s500,000 and the Inspiration Copper company will build '. a mill of 5000 tons daily capacity at an (, outlay of about $1.5OO,O0. Adi to the:e amounts the money that will be ex-I '. pended upon the London Arizona. Lon , don Range, Gila Copper Sulphide, Ball {, Copper company and the London Shamrock and it will make the total aggregate ultimately between s2O,OOO,- GOO and s25.O0O, 900.
 Perhaps the most important project to this Winkelman- Ray Globe region is the Port Lobos railroad, which is projected from Port Lobos to Sasco, the location of the smelting works of the Imperial Copper company: thence tC Winkelman. with branches to Tue son, and possibly to the districts of the Vekol Copper company and the Ajo No enterprise has been projected in Ari-