Arizona republican., 1912-08-07
Arizona and Eastern Con- pany, It Has Been Off, cially Announced, Will Build at Once on Tract South of Eastlake Park
CONSTRUCTION TO
 COST $50, 1000
New Water Supply for Locomotives of A. & E. as Well as Santa Fe, Pres colt and Phoenix Line Is to Be Developed

After about three years of nervous expectation and hope on the part of Phoenix people. following the pur- chase by the Southern Pacific inter- | eSts of a large acreage south of East- lake park, known the Bouvier ranch, it is definitely announced by C. NJ. Scott, superintendent of the local division of the Arizona East ern Railway company, that the erec- tion of railroad shops on that prop 1 erty is to be undertaken at once. To be still more definite, the plans are drawn. preliminaries for the as- sembling of material, etc, are now 1 under way and construction will be- i gin just as soon as the materials ara | at hand.
 This is an undertaking of much importance to the city of Phoenix as ! it means an expanded pay roll and a greater railroad population. More than that it is a start to still greater | things that must come eventually in the logic of things, though no man | knows when. When the land was i bought three years ago no secret was ! made of the fact that it was acquired 1 for shop purposes and since then, the wish being father of the thought, l
 ed at intervals based on what was
 regarded as one sign or another that
 the railroad was going to do some- | thing"
 Superintendent Scott said last night 1 that it has now actually begun to do l things, though the published stories of
 it's plans are greatly exaggerated The l shops are to be built for the use of l f | centering in Phoenix, supplanting the present inadequate, old fashioned and poorly equipped repair shops that
 have been maintained since the rail- road was first built to Phoenix and
 which have been enlarged only as actual necessity required. The initial l expense of the new shops it is esti-
 mated will be approximately s150,000 which it is believed will give an equipment capable of caring for all the demands of the local lines
 Phoenix, which has yearned for a through line so long, is quick to con- l strue every railroad move as an l earnest of its early building. MT. Scott denied that the construction of these shops has any connection with a through line just as bad as the
 people of this valley do. when the conditions permit of it's building. With that in view ample ground was bought at the time, for through line
 shops whenever they might be need ed. and plans for the shops have been drawn on a magnificent scale, but the present constructions are to be
 but a nucleus of the larger shops proposed for a day when a through line has been secured Though planning big the present work is only
 to provide for local present need.
 The local need is not only good shops but a good water supply and | power facilities. The city water it | is well known carries lime ingredi- ents that are disastrous to boiler tubes, however good the water may
 be for drinking purposes. Ever since the land for shops was acquired Su- perintendent Scott has been quietly conducting a search for good water supply for locomotives. He has se- cured the analysis of water samples from wells throughout all the nearby
 country and now states that he is
 confident he has found a locality about six miles north of Phoenix
 where he can secure the finest kind
 of water It is proposed to pump it ana run IL IO tHe cllH DE STdNllS
 line. No site for well has yet been actually decided upon but MT. Scott
 knows about where he will be able to
 find what he wants when the time comes, if not on one piece of land,
 then on another in the same region. He says it is not unlikely that when this line is put in it will be large | enough to supply water. for locomo- tive purposes to both railroads, for
 the Santa Fe has the same trouble
 with water that its competing line experiences and will doubtless be
 only too glad to buy a supply of
 good water.
 si In the matter of power for the shops Phoenix has all that could be desired in the electric power from Roosevelt which will be cheaper and
 better than steam for shop purposes.
 The new shop buildings will be of
 cement or concrete foundation and the
 superstructures will be of brick laid in concrete. The main constructions iproposed are as follows: A twenty - stall round house; an electrically
 driven turntable; an office building; = a shop building extending from the
 round house: a coach shed and paint shed; storehouse; sand house; oil
 tanks; water tanks: storage yards; lumber yards, and trackage sufficient - =, --- Do,,o