Arizona republican., 1913-09-27
NEW SOUTHERN
TRAFFIC LANE
Is Opened Up by Agree
ment Between E. p. S. w.
and Espee, Routing Rock
Island Trains to Tucson
Via Formers Track

BY reason of a recent agreement
between the Ell Paso and South
western and the Southern Pacific
railroad companies, there will be in
augurated on October l through ser
vice of Rock Island trains via e P
and S. w. to Tucson and between
there and Los Angeles via Southern
Pacific. The Golden State limited,
which has been taken on bv the
S. p. at Ell Paso, Will from that date
be run as far as Tucson over the
splendid new roadway of the Ell Paso
and Southwestern.
These announcements mean that
new transcontinental service will be
available from and after the first of
october, over routes heretofore nm
used. 1t also means that a new and
more direct traffic lane will he
opened up between the middle south
and the Pacific coast, passing through
Arizona on the rails of the two COM
panies touching in at Tucson
The recently constructed Tucum-
carl to Memphis line of the Rock
Island will let traffic over the s. p
and E. P. and S. w. from the coast
INTO the center of the south, and
predicted advances of the line to
other centers will soon connect the
last links in the new southern trans
continental line. This new line.
strange as it may seem, will be the
first to permit traffic direct between
the southern coast and the southern
states, and will when completed form
the only ocean to ocean railway
system south of the Ohio river
Los Angeles is expecting an i'm
mense increase in the freight and
passenger traffic over the S p. now
that the agreement has been reached.
The new pact has virtually brought
the Ell Paso and Southwestern 339
miles nearer to the coast metropolis
BY routing the Rock Island limited
over the Ell Paso division as far as
Tucson, the cities Of Fairbank. Naco,
Osborn, Douglas and Hermanas are
brought in touch with a through
pa ssenger line between Los Angeles
and Chicago, San Francisco and
other points east. In consequence
of this step up in dignity, the f. p
and S. w. offices in Los Angeles
will be lowered to a ground floor
just as soon as offices can be To-
Gated. Heretofore the coast repre-
sentative has abided in an up stairs |
suite, but now he must find quart |
ers nearer the rush of street traffic. |
Recognize Arizona
Railroad advertising in the east !
is changing gradually to give Arizona |
place beside California in the land |
lure advertisements. Gradually the
big companies are coming to recog-
nize the advantage Of boosting this
section as well as that Of California. !
1t is said that the land companies, |
tourist bureaus and other factors in
western development bring people to
California to find homes, and that
the people see Arizona and choose |
for themselves. The tourist rates
starting soon are expected to bring
$4,000 people to southern California, |
a part of whom will naturally and
eventually drift into Arizona.
Mexican Railroads
The short haul to Cananea is the |
extent of Mexican railroad travelling |
one can safely do now that the S.
P has announced it viii not sell |
transportation either for passengers |
or freight below that point In fact |
the line between Cananea and the |
border is about the only one south |
of the Mexican boundary that is in |