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tories, glass houses, etc., for the Experiment Station, 

 in organizing and equipping an experimental farm, a 

 State weather service, and a permanent exhibit of 

 the State's resources. He became at this time greatly 

 interested in technical education, and wrote and lec- 

 tured a good deal on the necessity for this kind of 

 education in the South. He was interested in the 

 establishment of an industrial school at Raleigh, 

 N. C., which has since become a college of agriculture 

 and mechanic arts. 



In 1877 the Board of Trustees of the University of 

 Tennessee, desiring especially to strengthen their 

 institution in the sciences related to the industries 

 and engineering, elected Dr. Dabney to the presi- 

 dency, he being then only thirty-three years of age. 

 During the time he has occupied the presidential 

 chair the courses of study have been enlarged to in- 

 clude many of the sciences, and new laboratories 

 have been erected for mechanic arts, chemistry, 

 physics, botany and zoology, each. In three years 

 three new departments have been opened, the num- 

 ber of professors, the number of students and the 

 income of the institution have all been nearly doubled. 

 Dr. Dabney received the degree of LL. D. from David- 

 son College in 1889. He is a member of American 

 and German chemical societies, of the American In- 

 stitute of Mining Engineers, of the Virginia Histori- 

 cal Society and other similar organizations. 



New 



In spite of the talk of the hard times in 

 Railroad the East the same spirit that built the 

 Building, union and Central Pacific railroads is 

 still alive and hard at work in the West, and three 

 roads are now building that will make accessible new 

 and fertile portions of the great Southwest. For 

 years these roads have been dreamed of. Now men 



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NEW RAILROAD LINES. 



are actively engaged in pushing them into the land 

 of sunshine, fruit and flowers. The Santa Fe, Prescott 

 & Phoenix railway is a leader in the field. This is 

 an enterprise of vast importance to Arizona, and is now 

 in rapid progress toward completion. The section 

 between Ash Fork and Prescott has been in operation 

 since the 1st of May, and rails are now being laid on 

 the twenty (20) miles of grading south of the latter 

 city, and steps being taken for completing the inter- 

 vening gap between the end of that section and the 

 city of Phcenix, its prospective terminus. 



The completion of this road, which has been 

 Arizona's greatest necessity, under the adverse 

 financial conditions obtaining ever since the incep- 

 tion of the enterprise, is as eloquent an expression of 

 the faith on the part of its promoters in the possi- 

 bilities and resources of the Territory as could be 

 had. The inestimable advantages to accrue from the 

 opening of this line are too many to enumerate within 

 the limits of a magazine article. Suffice it to say that 

 the Salt River valley, one of the richest irrigated 

 agricultural sections of the Southwest, will on the 

 completion of the line find quick access to the markets 

 of the North and East for its fruit and numerous 

 other agricultural products. The timber regions of 

 northern Arizona will find a growing market within 

 its own territory, which has hitherto been inaccessible, 

 and where wagon transportation and long haul freight 

 from the Pacific coast have made the price of lumber 

 almost prohibitive. The mines situated in the inter- 

 mediate mining region will be enabled to develop to 

 the ultimate of their possibilities, their supplies and 

 timber being drawn from the northern and southern 

 portions of the Territory respectively, and fuel in and 

 ore out being moved at the minimum of cost. 



There is no question before the people of Arizona 

 so vital to their existence and the development of the 

 rich and diversified resources of their Territory as 

 that now before them of providing a means of com- 

 munication with all the markets of the United States, 

 and no line of railway ever projected through a new 

 country gave such assurance of profit to itself and 

 prosperity to the people relying on it, as the Santa F6, 

 Prescott and Phcenix railway does at this time. 



The officers of this company are as follows: F. M. 

 Murphy, president; G. W. Vaughn, vice-president 

 and general manager ; F. A. Healey, auditor; C. C. 

 Bowen, secretary and treasurer; F. J. Sarmiento, 

 assistant secretary and treasurer. 



Directors: F. M. Murphy, Prescott, Arizona; E. 

 M. Dickey, Chicago, 111.; G. W. Kretzinger, Chicago, 

 111.; C. D. Arms, Youngstown, Ohio; N. K. Fairbank, 

 Chicago, 111.; C. C. Bowen, Detroit, Michigan; D. M. 

 Ferry, Detroit, Michigan; G. W. Vaughn, Prescott, 

 Arizona; W. C. Bashford, Prescott, Arizona. Execu- 

 tive office, Monadnock Block, Chicago, 111. 



