Arizona republican., 1916-09-18
]. 5. DOUGLAS, HEAD IF THE
 NEW CONP ANY

Proposing to build from Clarkdale 10 Mesa, to connect an infinitely rich mining and agricultural country with either the Arizona Eastern or the pro- posed Tucson, Phoenix and Tidewater line the Arizona Extension Railroad company has filed its articles of in- corporation with the corporation com mission. Men prominent in mining finance in Arizona, and known natio- ally for their conection with the big eest copper interests of the southwest, are back of the company.
 The Verde valley, q fertile asricul- tural region, surrounded by noun tains, the wealth Cf which no man knows or can estimate. will be the route of the railroad. Clarkdale. which will be the northern terminus of the line. is to be connected with Jerome hy seven-mile brunch line. running by way of the mouth of the United Verde Extension tunnel mouth. An other branch. five miles in length. will connect Clarkdale with the United Verde proposd reduction works. James s. Douglas of she Copper Queen. Is president of the company. Among the directors are F. Q. Ellis !ames ?. Boyle. H W. Williams and < P. Applewhite. the latter. secretary of the Douglas Investment company. The corporation will be capitalized at four million dollars.
 South and east from Clarkdale. the right of way will follow the valley. tapping the country from which the famous apples and peaches come. Ii Will touch in at a number uf noinis where Irrigation on small scale has l made the most beautiful and fertile | | the Verde it will follow the river more closely. emerging into the Sait | River valley nenr Granite Reef A | bridge win be necessary to carry the line across the Salt and thence it will turn westward Co Mesa. which. when | the Nne is completed. will become an l important junction
 In the event the Tucson. Phoenix | and Tidewater road Is built the Clarkdale Mesa line will connect with | t for tho two concerns arc allied
 many of their packers being the same
 men.
 Maya io- Southern Revived | News was received yesterday that | the Navajo Southern railroad scheme l worked out a number of years aga
 and dropped, as were many irriga ton projects in Navajo county. is tr | | other assets of the old concern as ars available have been taken over by | the Western Pine Lumber and Mill | ing company. The plan is Co built q | ailroad south from Holbrook to Pine ton tapping a wonderfully rich tim Der country ard incidentally opening up an agricultural region of grea premise. IT its plans arc perfected 1 the new company will be the mean,
 of stimulating the reclamation O
 thousands of acres of valunble lant
 along the Little Colorado. md ma
 even oper J1 new fruit district 1T
 the highlands of southern Naval l county.
 The articles of incornoration of th' new company arc now being puhlishe'
 and some action may be expecte,
 shortly. 1t is thought.
 Tremendous Possibilities
 II is no flight of fancy to sec
 tremendous development of the mul
 tfarious resources of Arizona cominE within the next few years Durin:
 tho past year. unprecedented prosper itv of the mining and agricultura
 districts has opened the way of ii
 nancing big schemes. The raw ma
 terial lies at hand awaiting the toucl of money to bring about indIstria
 changes that will surprise the world Tn every industrv the state possesses l there arc possibilities that are littI
 short of marvellous. and according [, financial experts. their realization i | now a matter of hut a few years