Bisbee daily review., 1913-11-28
W. J. OFFICIALS
 ENTHUSIASTIC
Return to Los Angeles With High Praise for Arizona Cities. and Understanding of Big Work Being Done

l of Big Work Being Done
 That their recent visit to Bisbee and
 other Arizona points did not fail to
 impress the mwith the fact that big
 things are being achieved in the de.
 veiopment of the state. is excellentIv set forth in the following article printed in the Los Angeles Times con. 1 oerning the views taken back ,o that city by c. H. Gaunt. general manager of the Pacific division Of the Western
 Union. II. F. Dodge. assistant general
 manager and District Commercial su. perintendent MePhee:
 'Hesitating to indulge fin superla- 1 tives, but confident that the Imperial Valley and Arizona are to see an in. dustrial expansion in the near future uneXempied in the worlds history. C. IT. Gaunt, general manager of the Pa. | ciGc division of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and H. F. Dodge. assistant general manager. arrived here yesterday from a trip eastward which convinced them that the apnro. priations recommended by 1ocaP man. agers for 1914 must be doubled if the company is to keep abreast of the in creasing demand for telegraphic fa- cilities.
 ''The Dixie Land of California Is u,isnomer. said Caunt at the Alex. andria yesterday. It should be the Greater DiTie Land for from Calex- ieo south there is a near-virgin cottan territory that makes the fields of the older Dixie Land look cramper in corr parison. It is a great sweeping terri tory. including the south half of Im- perial county and millions of acres of Sonora, that has been little more than scratched: which is destined in the near future to show 8 productivenessI that will rival old Egypt
 NO, am not selling land down there, nor even interested. But am an official of great company and del egated to find out for it the latitude ana longitude of future business that can be expected in my territory. Wei are to make some marked improve ments down there. The Western Union 1 is going to run new lines into the I'm 1 perial Valley country and will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in | providing increased facilities.
 How about government ownership? ? l We'll, that is a possibility of the fu- ture, but let Ine say that the tele- !! graph companies are going to fight it l Y,- ,,,oapo,,- oF ,po ,,,r-s !, ,efoo.;r-x, r-g.I | better service, for instance.
 But let us get back to the Impe- rial Valley and Arizona, where young l men and old are pioneering in a wayl that means the hinterland of Los An geles is going to be a productive fac even the Twin Falls country of Idaho look like a piker.
 Tn Arizona big things are being done; big pioneering things that areI commanding the best blood of thel East. and of the West At Yuma, orl whereabouts, S2.OOO.OOO has been made available by tEis same spirit tn de- velop 100000 acres or semi-arid land. At Clifton and Merenci a similar amount is being expended on copper smelters: at Douglas, the Phelps-DodgeI interests are using hard times as an excuse to sink vast sums of money into increased smelting facilities. At Tucson. Bisbee, and half a hundred other places in Arizona, things are booming. Even off the main-traveled roads things are swinging steadily on- ward and upward towards bigger things and increased prosperity.
 "AH these things mean that the breadbasket of the SOuthwest-the Imperial Vailey-is going to be called upon to shift production to the high gear. Los Angeles alone within a few years will be taxing the productive fa- cilities of the Imperial Valley.
 Now, just a word as to what the Western Union Telegraph Company intends to do in my territory to the eastward. Our main trunk lines to Chicago run through the northern end of Arizona. They will be supple nented with further wires. Through the Imperial Valley two more wires will be run from Los Angeles. In Douglas and a scorc of other cities s25.OeO will be expended on office changes of the smaller kind. At Tue son our main way station East, a large sum of money will be spent Of the main travelled road, telegraph of- fees will be installed. for the public demand says that they are desirable"
 The trip of Gaunt and Dodge, who were accompanied by District Com mercial Superintendent McPhee, of this city, wa sthe first those men had taken through the Imperial Valley