Arizona republican., 1912-07-24
A. H. Westfall, General Manager of the Monon Route, Comes to Arizona on a Mission of Pleasure and Private Business
WILL INSPECT
 MINING PROPERTY
Is Accompanied by Presi- dent Geo. P. Baldwin of the Kelvin Sultan Copper Co.,, of Which MT. West fall Is Vice President

| A. H. Westfall, general manager
 Of the Monon route and vice presi-
 dent of the Kelvin Sultana Copper | company, arrived here last night in ! his private car, and will leave on | this mornings Arizona Eastern train | for Kelvin for stay of two or three ! days. MT. Westfall is accompanied 1 by Mrs. Westfall, George F. Baldwin.
 president of the Sultana Copper com- pany, and l.. R. Johnson MT. Vest
 falls secretary. The visit is in the nature of a pleasure jaunt to some 1 extent by MT. and Mrs. Westfal, who are visiting central Arizona for i the first time, though primarily un- dertaken by MT. Westfall and MT. ! Baldwin in connection with their
 mining business, as they desire to make a thorough inspection of the Kelvin Sultana property, preliminary l to the installation of a new power plant, as indicated in these columns ! a few days ago. MT Baldwin is
 president of the Baldwin syndicate of Chicago, as well as of the Kelvin 1 Sultana company, and it was through 1 his efforts that the latter was fi-
 nanced, a most successful undertak- | ing oversubscribed within three 1 weeks from it's offering, after it was
 underWritten by his company.
 l When seen at his car MT. WestfalI
 said he was most agreeably sur- prised at the weather, for he had been led to believe that the heat
 would be almost unbearable at this
 season of the year. On the contrary, l II I,o
 was already promising himself a 1 splendid nights rest He declared the weather was more delightful
 than many of the summer nights in ! Chicago Though he has crossed the
 state in visits to the coast this is
 MT. WestfalPs first trip into it's in- teriOr, and he expressed himself as much impressed with what he saw yesterday on the way here. He has vet had no daylight view of the Salt 1 River valley. but hopes to be able to
 look it over when he returns from 1 Kelvin.
 The party was fortunate yesterday
 in meeting President F. M. Murphy
 of the S F.. P & P. and his private
 car at Ash Fork while waiting for
 train connections, and MT. Westfall's !
 Prescott ahead of the regular south bound train. so the visitors spent a. couple of hours very enjoyably in the mile high city before continuing , their journey southwark Near Pres
 colt they enjoyed the novelty or sec ing some wild west moving pictures in their making. The Lubin com-
 pany, which passed through here 1 in and was engaged in creating some
 thrilling films of runaway lovers pursued by cowboys. etc. finally es- ; caping on a train. all of which was enacted a few yards from the West fall car. which was awaiting trans } portation.
 Speaking of matters political, no effort was made to discover the poli
 tics of the gentlemen, but they vol
 unteered the information that they had been curious in trying to dis
 cover how many Roosevelt men they would encounter in their western journey. and were somewhat sur } prised that of all the men they had interrogated, but one had openly de- clared himself as intending to vote for the rough rider
 BOth gentlemen Seelneu SiSdby HI : terested in advising themselves re- } specting general business conditions : in the west and in Arizona particu- f larly. and did not hestitate to say
 that from all they knew and had learned in the course of their west l ward journey the prospects of the
 baby state could not be more roseate from an industrial standpoint. They
 took pleasure in adding that eco-
 homie conditions throughout the east e are also decidedly f1attering. There e is a reign of general prosperity that a at the present time shows no signs l. of interruption. Asked if there were 7, not impending fears of disturbance e of financial conditions through the |. pending political campaign both gen. s tlemen replied that they did not re- = call a time when business generally
 seemed to be paying so little atten-
 1 tion to politics. during presidential
 year. Politicians may fight out their
 troubles as they may, but the world
 ] of business is in fine condition ana y is too busy to be bothered.