The Parker post., 1914-01-03
RAILROAD
IS ASSURED
JOHN DENAIR, VETERAN RAIL
ROAD BUILDER, AT HEAD OF
ENTERPRISE-THE ROAD WILL
GREATLY ENHANCE VALUES OF
FARM LANDS.

valley is practlcally assured OF rail-
road within the next year. And it is
this fact that makes the valley one
Of the best opportunities for invest
ment to be found in the entire west
John Denair, a practical railroad
man who has built hundreds of miles
Of branch roads for the Santa Fe, is
just now organizing a company to
construct a line from Blythe juno,
tlon on the Santa Fe to Blythe and
the valley towns.
On December 20, 1913, Mr.. Denair
asked the farmers and business men
OF Blythe and the community to raise
S125yOO worth of stock in the new
railroad company. Nearly hundred
thousand dollars of this amount have.
been subscribed by January 1, 1914,
IN just ten days, and there is every
assurance that the road will be begun
within few weeks.
The valley needs it badly. The
farmers here have made money with
out railroad but they will make it
more rapidly after road has been
put in operation.
However, it is the fact that a rail
road has not reached this valley that
makes this most oppOrtune time
for the land-buyer or the business
man to come in. The coming of the
thousand tons of freight have been
hauled into the valley by freight
teams at an expenditure of nearly
fifty thousand dollars, an amount
that would go a long way towards
building a railroad. The above
does not include what might have
been received for passenger fares.
Hogs and cattle fattened here have
to be driven out or hauled out in wag
ons to the railroad before shipping
to market, which would be another
| big item in a railroads. receipts
Thousands of cords of the best wood
in the world are burned Up in the pro
cess Of clearing lands, that would
| be shipped out and sold, bringing a
| heavy revenue into the valley if we
but had a railroad. But why go on
and enumerate?
That we need the railroad, and
need it badly, goes without saying,
and we must have it before We can
advance very much further. The
present way of getting freight in
railroad is certain to mean a big in
crease in land values and the farmer
who takes advantage of this raise
and comes in now will profit richly
Railroads and prosperity go hand
in hand. But few countries have
made much progress without a rail-
road to carry the products to mar
ket.
In the Palo Verde Valley there are
more than 100000 acres of rich, ri
parian land that is now being develop
ed and is susceptible of being irri-
gated from the Colorado river, but
the greatest handicap to this big un-
dertaking has been the absence of
a railroad into the valley.
The nearest railroad point to the
valley is Blythe Junction, on the
Phoenix branch of the Santa Fe, 40
miles to the north. Sixty-five miles
to the south is Glamis, on the Sou
thern Pacific. Freight is brought in
to the valley from these two points
by teams and auto trucks and the pro
cess is not only slow, but expensive.
During the past four months, thirty
to the valley is far too expensive for
even a rich valley like ours.
For the past three years, efforts
have been made to induce either the
Southern Pacific or the Santa Fe to
| build a railroad into the valley. Sur
veys for such a line have been made
| by both companies, but they failed
to materialize, Notwithstanding the
admission that the road would soon
bocOmo q n9vinU QntQrnriSQ
Last summer John Denair, the
man who had promoted every branch
line of the Santa Fe, west of Albu-
uerqque, New Mexico, came here and
looked the valley over and went
away with the remark that this val
ley needed railroad, and he was go
ing to induce capital to build it.
It was big undertaking, for money
was hard to get to invest in any en-
terprise. Denair spent his own money
in getting a line surveyed into the
valley from Blythe Junction. He
found the distance to be less than
forty miles, over a comparatively lev
ell country, where the grade was very
easy.
He estimated the cost of building
and maintaining the road, and then
AOA
If the farmers of the valley would
take 125,OO0 shares of the stock
of the new company he would
begin at once the construction of the
railroad and have it completed into
Blythe before the close of 1914.
Mr.. Denair's proposition is a fair
one. He proposes that if the people
of the valley will subscribe for 1885,
600 shares at the par value of $1.OO
per share, he will secure loan of
100000 twenty year gold bonds at
five per cent, which amount will COM
plete and equip the road and place
it on paying basis.
.> A committee of the Blythe Chamber
IHf Commerce has the matter of Sc
curing this subscription in charge
and now nearly all the stock to be
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