Arizona republican., 1914-04-26
The Southwestern & Pacific


 An obscure statement in a report in the Los Angeles Examiner of a reception given Colonel D q Collier of San Diego his return to Southern California the other day possibly veils news of the greatest importance to the southwest. Colonel Col Tier Los Angeles by a large committee of the most prominent citizens san Diego who came to escort him home where a mammoth receI- ton had been planned him Thursday night A loving cup 0 be presented to him as an expression of the popular appreciation his great services to that city.
 Colonel Collier has been from the beginning the moving spirit in the planning of the San Diego exposition. as he has been in of the affairs of San Diego several years He had lately spent for the city more than $40o,ooo of his fortune and it reported a weeks ago that he was in New York broke" But that condition rather hence the arrangement for the reception and the loving cup.
 In connection with the meeting between the com stated that Colonel Collier had become the head of the Southwestern X Pacific Railroad Company formed as a result of his visit to the east Europe and South American states The purpose of the corporation, which has been capitalized s6o,
  Grand Junction, Colorado, Seeley in the Imperial Valley That all No comment No inquiry for details
 But no more significant point could have been mentioned as the western terminus of the proposed road than the unmportant village of Seeley If it had been San Diego instead that would have meant little nothing. It would have been supposed only that another railroad paper was in process Of construction. But with SeeleV he western terminus an interesting field of specua ton is opened
 Last winter. when application was made by the San Diego Arizona Railroad Company to the Calofrnia railway commission for permission to money was to be expended was described as lying between the end of the road sixty miles east of San Diego and Yuma. But. before action was taken by the commission. the application changed Seeley being substituted for Yuma. The permis- sion granted, the bonds have been sold and construction is under way.
 Seeey lies d few miles south and slightly east Of Fl Centro. The Southern Pacific has line run ming from it's main line at imperial Junction through Fl Centro and Seeey The circumstance that Seeley had been suddenly designated by the San Diego X Arizona as the point to which it desired to build
 
 had been made with the Southern Pacific d outlet to Yuma and thence to Phoenix and the the lines the Arizona Eastern.
 But since then has developed that John D. Sprecels is engaged in litigation with the Southern Pacific the terms of a large loan which he ceived from the late F. II Hartman long be- Harriman's death. Judge Lovett the head of the Hartman lines, contends that there no loan but that the money advanced Mir. Spreckels for the purpose of securing certain rights ill the line he was building. MT. Spreckels contends that straight loan which he is prepared pay. This controversy indicates that there is friendly arrangement between Spreckels and the Southern Pacific and that there will be arrangement at all unless it should be forced upon Spreckes
 Assto the other end of the proposed line of the Southwestern x Pacific: Grand Junction lies the Rio 0rande system. q Gould property and direct connection of the Missouri Pacific. That the Mis- souri Pacific would seek to the southwest believed by Mir. Hartman, who several years ago acquired extensive coal fields in the vicinity of Grand Junction and began laying plans for the con- sruction of a line from Globe to Grand Junction. That was intended to be an outlet from the south west We were very much interested in that plan, as it was part the plan by which Phoenix was ha t,uto q the Southern Pacific.