Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-08-09
f. P. 8 S. v. EXTENSION
The Tribune Thinks it Sees
in it the "Bottling Up"
of the Southern Pacific
Which it Contemplates
Without Show of Regret.

The Los Angeles Tribune devotcs
great deal of space to railroad build
ing in this territory; especially to tn
proposed extension of the f. p. &
w to Phoenix and the effect it wi
have on the Southern Pacific wit
which il and its evening brother, tn
Express are now involved. The Fri
bune dweTs upon the fact that tn
Southern Pacific is to be bottled up
when the plans now under way ar
carried out. Says the Tribune:
railroad war. the ultimate enc
Of which will be to bottle up tn
Southern Pacific in the southwest
shut off its direct eastern connection:
with the Rock Island, and force il L
build a new connection and Quite
over the old Durango cutoff. tool
definite shape yesterday when il was
announced that the Fl PasO and
Southwestern, a Phelps Dodge hold
ing. has appropriated 100000 for
the immediate construction of an eX-
tension from Fairbanks. Ariz., to Tue
son.
Aligned against each other in this
war which promises to be the fiercest
since the days when Hartman
waged battle against the Salt Lake
i'm the Meadow Valley wash, or since
the Santa Fe invaded the southwest,
are the millions Of the Santa Fe, the
Rock Island and the Phelps Dodge in
terests, and those of the Hartman
interests.
For the past few years the rail-
road situation in Arizona, the hotbed
of the present difficulty, has been
strained to momentary interruption
The Rock Island, in which the Phelps
Dodge people are heavily concerned
and the FL Paso and Southern. a line
owned absolutely by the Phelps Dodge
people, running from Benson, Ariz..
through FL Paso to Tucumcari, n NJ.
have been writhing under the hold Of
the Southern Pacific for many years.
When ii was first intimated that
Phelps Dodge planned to build from
Fairbanks to Tucson, the ultimate end
of the project broke in the mind of
Epes Randolph, manager Of the Har-
riman lines in Arizona and Mexico
Hasty conferences were held with
eastern officials over the wire. and
then Randolph rushed. though physi-
cally sick, in his private car to Los
where he arrived THURSDAY.
Thursday afternoon a hasty confer
ence was held between the Hartman
official and Frank Fletcher, private
COrmick. vice president Of the South
ern Pacific Fletcher left Los An
geles Thursday night to return TO San
Francisco. the headquarters of his
chief.
The plans Of the FL Paso and
are to build from Fair
banks to Tucson, a piece of construc-
ton that will be completed in a COM
paratively short time-work is to be
begun in ten days-and from there to
-ush construction to Phoenix, there
making connections with the Santa
Fe and obtaining an entry to tide
water over other lines than those Of
he Southern Pacific.
An attorney now in Los Angeles.
who is close to Phelps Dodge. stated |
Yesterday that the Phoenix extension |
VIII probably be completed in a short |
time and that actual construction will |
De begun before the present project. |
hat OF building from Fairbanks to |
Tucson, is completed.
once the connection with the Santa |
'e has been made at Phoenix, the |
Rock Island and Ell Paso and South |
western trains win find a ready out |
ct to Los Angeles; the arrangements
~ which the Southern Pacific now |
'uns its trains to Chicago over the /
ines of the FL Paso and Southwest
'rn from r Paso to Tucumcari. and |
rom Tucumcari over the Rock Island |
VIII be several and the Southern Pa
,lfic. the interest that since the birth /
# the southwest as a commercial and
agricultural center has practically
controlled transportation, will be bot
led up In its own stronghold without
IN outlet by which it can compete
or eastern business.
But the plans Of the Phelps Dodge
interests and the Santa Fe which |
rom present indications have COM
'ined to battle against the Southern
'acl1ic' are even more extensive than |
heretofore told.
From Tucson il is planned to build |
IS the crow flies. to Port I.obos on |
he Gulf Of California. and thus give /
mother tidewater terminal TO tho Il
Rock Island. Phelps Dodge and the Il
santa Fe lines. with short cut from II
ne Pacific and far east that will bet !,
er by considerable reduction of Il
distance the line now building bv the II
Drient railroad from Topolobampo on Il
ne gulf to Kansas City and Chicago II
News has reached Los Angeles that Il
great quantity OF rails and ties have II
ecently been unloaded at Port Lobos.
hat surveyors have been over the
n'ire course, and that actual con-