Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-07-16
RAILROAD PLANS
FOR THIS TERRITORY
COMING OF ROCK ISLAND TO
PHOENIX.
Rumor of an Understanding With the
Santa Fe.

| From a railroad man high in the
councils of the Phelps-Dodge interests
| in Arizona, it has been learden that be
tween the Rock Island, now i'm reality
| Phelphs-Dodge system. and the
Santa Fe exists working agreement
! whereby within comparatively short
| time, eighteen months or two years
| at the outside, the FL Paso and South
| western, which is virtually the pres
ent western extension of the Rock
| Island system, is to push on to Phoe-
| nix, via Tucson.
At the office of the Santa Fe in
| this city General Agent w. S. Colds
| worthy admitted that it had been
| common report in Santa Fc circles
for some time that such an agreement
existed, and that its contamination
was only a question of a lOOSening
up Of the money market.
Il have only common reports, which
circulate among railroad men, upon
which TO base any admission or 9TH
erwise." said Mr.. Goldsworthy. '1sIt
1 think there is reason, and good
reason to back the statement. That
is all l care to say upon the subject"
But Mr.. Goldsworthy did talk very
entertainingly about the future Of
Arizona in general. and Phoenix in
particular, and there Is no reason to
doubt that he spoke from the view
point of the great transcontncntal
system which he represents in Phoe-
nix
Arizona is great undeve!oped
in h. oil no
state will have within its own Dor
ders all the requirements for the sus-
tenance Of a large population. Why
up in northern Arizona there are i'm
merse tracts of land which will even
tually produce the finest apples grown
on the continent. / speak of this one
feature as illustrative Of many The
people already here know but little of
the wonderful richness of their own
state. Those on the outside know
comparatively nothing. The era of
knowledge spreading about Arizona is
just beginning. II is the land Of
greatest opportunity i'm the United
States today. The mines have scarce
~ been touched. Undrcamed of for
tunes are in the ground waiting 40 be
discovered. Water development is Just
beginning. The Santa Fe is a great
colonizing agent. Colonization brings
permanent settlers. and settlers de-
Velop resources, and developed re
sources increase products to be trans
ported, and railroads make their prof
its by carrying. The railroads Of the
country are fully alive to the spIen-
did carrying possibilities of Arizona
The are fully cOgnizant of the dom
mating position of Phoenix as the
center of all this rich region. The
Santa Fe heads have no doubts about
the future greatness of the city, and
they Of course are planning TO keep
in the van and profit by the citys
progress. Any person Of ordinary
good sense and foresight needs only
to put two and two together to ar
rive at a fairly accurate conclusion
as to what is going to happen to the
railway situation i'm Phoenix. and that.
l believe, at no very distant day"
In answer to a direct question Mr..
Goldsworthy declared his personal be
lief that eventually the road to Port
Lobos on the Gulf Of California would
be built. giving Phoenix its closest
Underwater port, and in line for big
share of the traffic that is bound to
come that way from the Panama ca