Bisbee daily review., 1913-05-18
s. p. HEAD GIVES
 REASON FUR II
Says Obstructive Legislation Prevents Any New Con- struction of Lines in State of Arizona.

GLOBE. May 1.-Epes Randolph, president of the Arizona Eastern rail road and the Southern Pacific lines in Mexico; Major Charles Hine, vice president of the Randolph lines and E. w. Clapp. general freight and passen- ger agent of the same lines arrived in Globe. yesterday in President Ran dolph's private car. This is Mir. Ran dolph's first visit for about year and judging from the large business that this branch of the A. E. system is do- ing he expects to note great i'm provement here and extension of mia ing in the district.
 Globe and Miami are both to have new railroad stati building This was announced to the Arizona Record by Mir Randolph last night The party is on a trip of inspection but their chief tasks here will be 10 inspect the site for the new building at Miami and to decide upon the character of con. struction and style Of architecture to be used. Plans. have already been drawn and a fsite selected for the Globe hailding. The new passenger station here will ocuupy the space north of the present building opposite the Dominion Hotel The depot here will be larger than the one one now in use and will be ample in size to .ac. commodate the rapidly increasing business of the Globe branch of the road. Work of construction of the fbuilding wtll begin sometime after the beginning of the railroads fiscal year, July I, and will probably be com pleted next fali.
 Inspect inspiration.
 Alr Randolph and his party will go to Miami this morning and will spend a large part of the forenoon going over the property or the Inspiration Copper company and discussing with the officials of that company matters of mutual interest w. H. Aldredge, managing director of the inspiration is in the city and will meet the rail road men at the mine, One of the mn ing company's engineers will also make the tour of the property with the railroad officials.
 Mr. Randolph stated that business on this division of the Arizona East ern is very satisfactory. This is most ly due 10 the increased activity in min ing and general business in the Globe district. He is a firm believer in che future of the Globe district and cX- pressed interest in the development of the territory northeast of Globe which is served by the spur built three years ago to the property of the Superior and Boston and Arizona Com mercial companies.
 Laws Prevent Construction.
 When asked if the company was considering Rew construction in the near future, Mr. Randolph replio l:
 None whatever. There will ie no more railroad building in Arizona while the present obstructive laws re- main in force and the attitude Of the state government and the people con finues to be hostile towards tran5por- tation companies.
 As an illustration Of how the raII- roads in Arizona are hampered by present conditions, MT Randolph cited the Pile headlight law which com pels all railroads to equip locomotives with that particular kind of headlight, which is patented and manufactured by company in another state. He declares that 1t is not the hest head 1 light, yet the railroads are prohibited from adopting any improved head light that might be brought out. Another law mentioned by the off ciai is the fun crew law winch he declared was needless and increase ! operating costs. Mir. Clapp mention cd that as a result Of this law operat- ing expenses on the main line Se tween Yuma and Lordsburg were in creased s5.575 in the month of March. Tne officials charged that the passage of this law was the outgrowth of a grudge held against the Arizona East ern by a former employee who was discharged for incompetency.
 Traffic Is hampereo.
 On the main line the officials sad, trafic is hsmpered by the law which limits the size of trains. This law too, they said was unjust and needless.
 The effect of these and other &is-i criminating laws was to increase the operating expenses of railroads in Arizona S950,080 a year
 Under the ruling of the interstate commerce commission the greatest amount that can be charged 10 capital account for any betterment is S2o0. so that practically all improvements cf the knid must Be paid for by incress- ing securities. and permission 10 lsa de bonds must first be obtained from the state railroad commission. Almost year ago the Ark na Eastern applied to the Arizona commission 10 issue sl. TOO 8a0 bonds for work on their lines already performed and eaelD- ment already purchased. and the com mission still has the matter under con sideration. At the same time that this permission was asked another appliestion was made by the company to issue s600.0e0 bonds for the p0r- pose of paying for the construction oi a britige across Salt River shops at Phoeaixl add otAeF isegk and impFoFss'l' ments in that vicinity. This lsw2s promptly granted WhyZ supposediy because 1t would help Phoenix