Arizona republican., 1911-01-26
COOPERATION AND
 NOT COMPETITION
San Diego Man Looking For Business
 on the Mutual" Plan.

Joseph C. de Varona arrived here
 yesterday and will make Phoenix his
 home for the next month and perhaps
 longer. He is not a tourist nor yet
 is he here solely with a selfish pur-
 pose though ultimate business is the
 object Of his stay which will be more
 or less prolonged. He is already To-
 cated in rooms 417 and AIS Fleming
 block where he hopes to meet any
 body and everybody planning to go
 to San Diego and everybody else who
 regards himself as Phoenix booster,
 whether he ever goes to San Diego
 or not.
 Mir. Varona is primarily engaged in
 boosting for San Diego and all the
 country that city conceives to be
 tributary to it. which means as far
 east as Phoenix and Fl PasO, on the
 cooperative theory that what helps
 Phoenix means business for San
 Diego and what helps San Diego
 means business for Phoenix. He is
 in the employ of D. c. Collier and
 company which is reputed to be the
 largest real estate concern in south
 ern California and it is through the
 sale of real estate that the Collier
 company, and incidentally MT. Va
 roma. gets the money necessary to
 meet current expenses and put by the savings for the rainy day.
 But Mir Collier is also the pres ident of the San Diego Panama eX-
 position, which is to be one of the two big attractions on the Pacific in 1915, the other being at San Fran cisco. MT. Collier is representative of the best energy and prosperity of San Diego and in furtherance of the exposition plans has already made himself somewhat famous. To make the exposition as well as his own pri- vate business a success he has plan ned his operations along extensive lines. He is not reaching for the present dollar but is desirOus of help ing to keep the single dollars in cir culation all over the southwest, knowing it means prosperity and growth for San Diego and as San Diego grows the Collier company hopes to do it's share of the business. To make San Diego grow its back country must be prosperous and when the Collier company finds man who wants to settle back in the sunkissed land, away from the fogs of the sea coast. there is no place it delights more to recommend than Phoenix, Arizona.
 Much of the future greatness of San Diego depends on the completion of the San Diego and Arizona rail road at least to Yuma, probably later 10 Phoenix This MT. Collier recog nizes both as an exposition president and as a real estate dealer. Not onN MT. Collier but all San Diego recog- nizes the fact and all San Diego is pushing and boosting the work of Mir. Spreckels. the railroad builder, as fast as it can. It means direct travel. the saving Of several hours and between two and three hundred miles for ley | cry Arizonian who desires to go to | San Diego. It means that many will ] go there who now prefer Los Angeles | on account of better facilities. It ! means that the products of this sec tion will go in larger part to San 1 Diego and that when the Panama l canal and railroad are built. San Diego will be the natural port for | this region. It means equally as much l for the prosperity of Phoenix
 Mir Varona says the story that the | Southern Pacific has bought the San 1 Diego & Arizona line is positively l erroneous and that for more than a | year Spreckels has been bending ev- i cry energy to the construction of the | road as quickly as possible. From i San. Diego east fifty miles of road is | and the grade is finished | for 75 miles, or clear to Campo. There | will be fourteen tunnels through the | division between Campo | and the Imperial valley. Eight of | them are now finished and work is | being hurried on the others. When | these are completed construction will , be rapidly made, so that long before | the Panama exposition, traffic be- tween here and San Diego will be | direct. For the present it will be in with the Southern Pacific I at Yuma but that it will ultimately | be with the Fl Paso X Southwestern Is not unlikely. That. however. is MT. de Verona is not au- thorized to talk. about. All he knows Is that there will be a railroad run hing by the most direct way between here and San Diego at an early day and that is the main point.
 The Collier company deals in lands ,f all sorts from city houses and lots fo orange groves and ranches It not ,nly brings people from elsewhere to settle in San Diego but takes the dis from San Diego to the