The copper era and Morenci leader., 1913-11-28
GO MOTIONS ARE VERY BAD IN
 MEXICO
Col. Epes Randolph in Phoenix Tells of Wanton Destruction Over
 the Line.

PHOENIX, Nov. 25.-"One thous- and of our entire 1900 miles of road in Mexico is torn to pieces. Aout 400 bridges, many depots and equipment are burned. Conditions along the border are about as bad as they can be. It is absolutely impossible to tell what the outcome will be. I don't see any chance of a settlement very soon."
 Thus spoke Col. Epes Randolph, president of the Arizona Eastern and of the Southern Pacific lines of Mex ico, to a Gazette representative this afternoon during an interview in his private car. Col. Randolph arrived about 10 o'clock last night on one of his periodical trips looking over the Arizona Eastern property. He will be in the valley two days, visiting Phoe- nix, Winkleman, Buckeye and other places.
 Our road crosses the border at Nogales and Naco. Some of our bridges that have been burned in the neighboring republic are three-fourths of a mile long. l. can't guess at the intervention question.
 One revolutionary leader named Campo captures all the trains he can train after footing it. He then runs
 
 trestle and burns both.
 q am down in Mexico quite ire quently, but can't get very far, as we are not operating below Hermosillo. It has been about eight months since I or anyone else have been able to get over the entire system. The oth- er roads are suffering about as much as the Southern Pacific"
 Col. Randolph notices a change ev- nT a n nj nix is growing more rapidly than any other city in Arizona" he said. "Phoe- nix is going to have 40,000 or 50,000 people and pretty quickly too. It will be as large a town as 250,000 acres of land will support. This 250,000 is equal to about 1,250,000 acres of the best land in the middle west because five crops can be raised here annu- ally.
 We contemplate no local improve ments here in the near future except to finish our new shops and water system. The water of Phoenix is very bad for locomotives and we are get ting a supply eight miles out in the country which is piped to the shop grounds
 No New 'Deppo."
 Wed like to have new depot in Phoenix, but guess we will have to get along with the one we have for "a little while Money is very hard to get and we can't get it without issuing bonds and the railroad commission won't let us do that. We spent ST., 100000 which we borrowed and ex- pected to pay back with bonds. Now we can't issue bonds unless the com mission approves it.
 Travel to this section at this time of the year is about normal. The Southern Pacific strike is entirely set tied. It only cut off business in this vicinity a few days.
 You will have to ask the Washing lon authorities when they will let us through the Box canyon" said the colonel when asked about a through | line for Phoenix. Tt will mean a big | thing for this section when a through | line is constructed. But at that Phoe- | nix has railroad facilities as good as any west of the Mississippi.
 Main Line Needed.
 t'No lines are being constructed in | Arizona at present by our road. It | would take two years to build the | twenty-nine miles through the canyon | and would cost $3,000,00O Railway | between the Gi1a and Salt | River valleys is local necessity. They should be connected. It is a piece of road that is demanded and needed badly
 If the Southern Pacific builds it's Box Canyon line through trains over the road will leave the present main line at Bowie, go up to San Carlos, thence over the twenty-nine miles to the present Phoenix-Winkleman eX- tension at Christmas, thence to Phoe- nix and out over the Buckeye line, which will be extended to connect with the main line near Yuma. This would be used until a new extension could be completed from Lordsburg to Bowie, when the trains would leave the main line at