The Coolidge examiner., 1936-12-17
REAL INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS

spend So 600 for engines, passenger cars
additional fleet of automobile freight and the air.
conditioning re-equipment and modenZatOn of other
passenger This supplements extensive improve
ment program which has been carried on during 1886
Contract has already been awarded for 20 high speed
freight and passenger engines to cost $3OOOOOO Bids
being taken for 40 passenger coaches and
five coffee shop" type dining Three hundred
automobile of record capacity will be built at the
SYSTEMS shops in Omhaa. The air conditioning and
modernzaton phase of the project has started and
several hundred additional workers employed.
Bringing its total appropriations for and
modernzed and locomotives in 1886 to than
SAL O,O00 Southern Pacific has authorized ex-
pendtures of SIG for the construction and
rebuilding of passenger freight and motive equip
ment
The latest authorization for rolling Stock just an
nounced by A. D. Mcdonald. president of the company
will add locomotives, 2725 freight and
Al modern lightweight passenger to the service of
the public, at cost of nearly 600, Mcdonald
stated.
Fourteen of the locomotives to be of stream
line design for passenger train and the passenger
will include eighteen coaches articuated in twocar
units Freight equipment will take in box automobile
caTs gondolas and flat
Ar-condtionion and modernzaton of passenger
train equipment which already has covered all of the
companys principal trans will be carried at cost
of $1,000 600, according to the announcement
Purchase of the freight and heavy duty loco
motives will provide shippers with benefits comparable to
those to be enjoyed by travellers Southern Pacific
Lines Transportation of all kinds of freight including
merchandise shipments provided for in the latest
propraton we'll in previous equipment orders this
year.
Southern Pacific major purchases of rolling stock in
1896 started last April when contracts totang 1000O
900 let for 27OO refrigerator for the Pacific
Fruit Express Company jointly owned with Union Pacific
Since then Southern Pacific has announced orders for
two streamedlned trains costing S2OOOOOO to be put in
operation between San Francisco and Los Angles via the
Coast Line, early 1887; Is locomotives and
freight, S2700,000 and $3.50 freight cars, $8O00,OOO
Just recently the company made known that it had
joined in the construction of $1500,000 streamlner
largest most powerful yet designed replace the
ent Getty of San Francisco the San Francisco Chicago
next year Purchase of 1000 and reconstruction of
1850 Pacific Fruit Express at cost of $1O5OO0OO
announced simultaneously.
In addition to the Sal 900 900 for rolling stock South
Pacific has appropriated S589OOOO this year for rails
and track accessories alone and has made substantial in
vestmens in other improvements and betterments it was
emphasized.
"These large additions to Southern Pacific equipment
indicate desire keep pace with and participate in
current business recovery said President Mcdonald.
Here is real industrial progress-the kind of progress
that provides employment stimulates multitude of other
industries through purchases creates real productive
wealth and taxable income and, finally, improves the
standards of vital public service 1t is embemac of the
kind of progress being made by other railroads we'll
Marcopa County's cotere of ballyhooers who to
sit in the Capitol members of the Thirteenth Legislature
that will be convened next month"; met at the Adams Hotel
short time ago and extended invitation to David Wind
sor, formerly King Edward VIII to "come Phoenix
live No doubt this bunch would if the invita-
ton should be accepted several hundreds Of thousands
of dollars of taxpayers money to support him and his
renue But The Examiner has idea that Davey he
Is affectionaely called by Mrs Wallis Simpson, will
gard the invitation coming from bunch of grand
ISLANDERS like those he quit the throne in order get him
self free Of Watch em when the Legislature gets going
they'll be found dsregarding campaign promises and vot
ing yea whenever porkbarrel measures come up.
Some merchants complain about "this and that
organization two three times each year soliciting them
for funds. Every week each year the local newspaper
is called upon to ge its space undertakings and enter
prses that sponsored in many cases. by persons who
are seeking personal aggrandzement The newspaper