The Parker post., 1911-12-23
CONSOLIDATION OF
ARIz. & CAL. LINES
A. & c. and s. F., p. e. p. Are In
cIuded in the Seven Lines to Be
Absorbed by Big Santa Fe Sub
sidiary Railroad Corporation.

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sion and construction in the south
west and especially in Arizona and
southern California was begun last
Wednesday when articles of incorpor-
alton were filed with the Los Ange-
les county clerk for the California
Arizona & Santa Fe Railway COM
pany, with a capitalization of $780,
OOO, 900.
The incorporators are Santa Fe Of
ficials, acting under instructions from
the Santa Fe system, the direct OBJ
ject of the incorporation being to or
ganize leased lines of Arizona and
the main line of the Santa Fe from
Needles to Mojave into one company,
subsidiary to the great transcontin-
entail system and to sell bonds for
the construction of other lines III
Arizona and southern California.
The Needles and Mojave division
of the Santa Fe is one of the most
important pieces of track included in
the list of leased lines noted in the
articles of incorporation. The new
program of expansion of the Santa
Fe will, it is said, center about this
division, when the construction OF
new lines begins in southern CalifOr
MIA. It is claimed that it is quite
probable that among the first of the
new lines to be constructed will bc
one from Blythe Jc., on the Parker
cutoff, to Blythe City and the Palo
Verde valley.
In Arizona feeders of the Santa Fe
will be strengthened and many oi
the isolated regions of the great cop
per producing state be connected Ut
with the main lines.
The plans of the Santa Fe arr
being withheld for the present, BIT,
the marvellous growth ia Southern,
California and the southwest general
ly has induced the railway officials
to plan for the future through tn
organization of the California, Ari
zona & Santa Fe Railway company
for meeting the expense of the con
struction of new lines through tn
sale of bonds in the new corpora
ton.
Among the leased lines of thI
Santa Fe included in the new cor
poration are the Lordsburg railway
the Barnwell & Searchlight railway
the Arizona & California railway, Per
ris & Lakeview railroad, the Brad
shaw Mountain railroad, Western Ari-
zona and the S. F., P. & P. railroad
These lines traverse several of the
richest parts of Arizona and are in
cluded in the best properties control
led by the Santa Fe system in that
state.
The Needles and Mojave division
runs from Needles, on the Colorado
river, to Mojave, where the Santa Fe
connects with the Southern Pacific
The Arizona & California line ex
tends from Wickenburg, Ariz, to
Cadiz, Cal, one hundred miles eas;
of Needles on the main line of the
Santa Fe, and is commonly called
the Parker cutoff. passing through
that point on the Colorado river.
BY placing these leases and prop
critics under one management thc
Santa Fe, 1t is semi-officially an
nounced, will be greatly facilitated
in it's operation.
With the new organization COM
plete, the Santa Fa will soon begin
the construction of other lines in
southern California and Arizona
The incorporators of the Califor-
MIA, Arizona & Santa Fe Railway are
A. G. Wells, general manager of thc
Santa Fe Railway company; |. L
Hibbard, general superintendent; J.
J. Byrne, assistant traffic passenger
manager; E. w. Kemp and G. Holt
erhoff, the tive latter of the local
legal department.
"The Santa Fe," said Mr.. Kemp,
has so many lines in California and
Arizona that are held under lease
that it was thought advisable to
group them under one head"
From an official source it was
learned that bonds would be issued
and that the Santa Fe would soon
begin the construction of new lines
in California and Arizona, reaching
probably, into New Mxeico and into
Mexico. Now that the matter of
securities has been cleared up by
the Southern Pacific, and the Santa
Fe is free to go ahead with the or
ganiZation of it's new subsidiary com
pany, it is said that bonds will be
issued to reimburse the original San
ia Fe company for the amount in