Arizona republican., 1914-03-29
SAN DECAYS
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Looking Forward to Early Communic a tiOn w h Phoenix-Dull Conditions on the Coast-Tariff and Other Matters

in the city yesterday from San Dlego i where he says there is a great deal of 1 iov over railroad prospects. The people ! believe there that there will be an carry i of the San Diego X PhoenlX Railroad to Fl Centroaor Seeley when l is the same thing. when direct commit nication with Yuma will have been eS- tablished. Recently contracts had been let for the building of seventeen mlfes more of the line which has been com pleted for a distance of sixty miles out of San Diego. The construction IS of the best class, similar to that ol the Fl Paso x Southwestern.
 John D. Spreckels, while MT. Gard ner was in San Diego, submitted pro position to the city council Tor the pur- chase by the city of Marine Lake TOT s1. 300. .000 It was pointed out that by means of a bond issue the burden would be lighter on the city than it IS at present since the interest on the bonds would amount to less than the city now pays for the use of it.
 MT. Spreckels is desirous of raising $2. 800, GOO to pay a claim against hlm bv the Southern Pacific. The money was loaned by the late E. H. Hartman but for what purpose is not clear. Only a memorandum of it was made and became of record. Judge Lovett who succeeded Mr. Hartman claims that it was for the purpose of securing options for the Southern Pacific and that the Southern Pacific thereby acquired an interest in the road. MT. Spreckels claims that the money was loaned for his own purposes and he now wants to discharge that debt.
 He told the councilmen that if the sale of Marine Lake was effected he would at once put 900 men at work on railroad construction. It is said that
 the council at the next meeting will | take action in favor of the purchase. | There is an impression at San Diego l that the Fl Paso X Southwestern in tends to make san Diego it's chief Wes- | tern terminal and that it will be built | southwest from Phoenix to effect | junction with the San Diego & Arizona railroad Mr. Spreckels' newspaper re- | cently printed that claim under two inch red headlines. on the authority, | however of an Fl Paso newspaper. l The san Diego exposition, said MT | Gardiner is looming in importance. It | will be much bigger thing than the | average man expects it to be. It will | not cover so wide a field as the Pana- ma Pacific exposition but it will be of | far greater value tG the southwest ! iC In aVn1Olt 1 resources of Southern California, Ari-
 zona New Mexico, Nevada and West | ern Texas.
 | Business all over Southern Califor- nia is extremely dull, said Mir. Gard ner. more so than it has been at any time within the last eight years. The business men of all classes in Los An geles complain and attribute the dull
 ness to the extremely light tourist traf-
 fife of the last winter They console themselves with the belief that the leasetrners are saving their money until next year when they come to the expo sitions.
 Mir. Gardner returned from the coast with some new notions about the tariff,
 some ofthem he got from the natives
 who have been particularly hard hit
 and some came within his own personal
 experience He is interested in a fac
 tory engaged in the making of new
 kind of gas meters. Lamb skins are
 used for diaphragms in these meters
 The larger supply of lambskins hao
 been brought from New Zealand The factory mana cement figured that un- der the new tariff saving of sever
 cents on each lambskin could be ef- fected. Accordingly a shipment of 30O'
 skins was ordered. Whether the price of the skins had advanced in the Nev
 Zealand market or whether those be nighted inhabitants had heard of tn new American tariff law, MT Gardne 1 is not sure, but when the shipment ar rived it was found that the price hal increased just the amount of the re duction in the tariff.
 i While he was in Los Angeles, Nil J Gardner went to a clothing store an bought a suit of clothes of We known standard make. The price wa 80. You're selling them higher tha last year." said MT. Gardner to tn T clerk. "No.' replied the clerk 'the pric
 is just the same" But" said M H Gardner. doesn't the reduced tari1 \ make any difference" Not so you ca U notice it." replied the clerk: ''the wo' & in this suit of clothes probably cost tn g manufacturer seventy cents less Una < under the old tariff but we saw notf & ing of that saving; the price to us wa
 unchanged. The difference was al # sorbed long before this suit of clotht
 reached Los Angeles"
 Mir Gardner said he believed thi u Tombstone was coming into it's oW H again There is a better feeling thel H than there has been for years. TT U Phelps Dodge people have taken ov, K the famous but long idle mines and u H Phelps Dodge people are not famOl Fl for leaving any property they own
 idle long All the leasing contrac
 have been concelled and the occupan
 of the company houses at Tombstol
 have been notified to vacate by Apl H TO- In the opinion of MT Gardner tn
 is equivalent to a notice that u wheels will begin turning at Tombstol N ioh that 6atp