Bisbee daily review., 1912-01-24
GOOD WORD IS SAID
 BY RAILROAD MEN
Southwestern Officials on Visit Compliment City
 on Border

A. N. BroWn, cnlSI LtaIIIc HdnS ger of the Fl Paso S1 Southwes tern railroad. with headquarters at ! Chicago, and F. C. Fox. freight and passenger agent at Fl Paso, were in Douglas yesterday, coming here to attend the golf contests yesterday and to attend a meeting arranged for today at Bisbee when some freight matters will be gone into with the merchants of that city, says the Douglas International.
 Mir. Brown has just completed an extended trip over the road with ali the traffic men of the system, which required nearly two weeks time. This trip ended at Tucumcari New Mexico, last Friday evening, and the eastern agents returned 10 their stations from there while Mir. Brown and MT Fox came direct here for the purpose of meeting their engagement at Bisbee.
 MT. Brown states that wherever they went on the recent trip he found business men in an optimistic frame of mind and in his opinion they are perfectly justified in their confidence for the future, as at eY- cry point visited they found every evidence of increased activity in every industry He said:
 The Fl Paso & Southwestern management is especially pleased al the activity manifested in the Sul- phur Springs valley in the work oi developing its agricultural industry and I am pleased to see Douglas taking such an interest in the ques- ton of better roads. I regard the proposition to improve the road be- ' tween Douglas and Fl Paso via Deming as a specially good one toT ! Douglas, and l hope this will be pushed to success, as it will result in bringing hundreds of automo bile tourists to your city. These tourists are generally high class pecple who are seeking for informa ton regarding the country through which they pass and certainly Doug las and the country surrounding II can show more to interest the tour ist than any other section of the southwest. Your mining industry already includes one of the largest and most modern smelters to bt seen in the world and soon the Calu met S Arizona will have a reduction works here second to none in the country. Then there is the great Warren mining district at Bisbet as another attraction to bring tour ists via this route to the west 1T preference to any other that coulc be taken through Arizona.
 q want to say that Douglas to
 hi lx service to be found in any city o the southwest and the most reason able nrice. I know of no other city where a man may take an automo bile at the depot and ride to any part of the city for 25 cents. II most cities if you want an automo bile you call for it at the hote and pay for it at the rate of ' per hour. but here you may find car waiting at the curb in front O the hotel that will take you any where in the city for a quarter O a dollar.
 When the great Rock Island pas senger trains pass through Douglas your ipeople will be in a position t' do some mighty effective adyertis
 
 for a stOp-over in your city and thu fine state road between Douglai and Bisbee. in connection with you magnificent Gadsden hotel will caus' many of these tourists 10 remain fo while for closer observation O the splendid industries that the. may see Shere under development
 Yes, I think Douglas should hav' a new depot and l have no doub that it will be provided during th' present year. ! understand that has already been decided to locat this depot at the north end of avenue and this is one of the mat fers about which l shall confer witt , General Manager Simmons at E Paso before I return 10 my head l auartiers in Chicago. I think per haps the present depot has serve it's purpose well to the presen time, but the future railroad in , po-tance of Douglas. l think. vii i demand something better, and a said before. I have no doubt thd , 1t will soon be forthcoming.
 LOSER MAKE COMPLAINT