NEW AUTOMOBILE STAGE LINE

 

   The Arizona Automobile Stage Company, whose name fully describes its purpose, has recently been organized with a capitalization of $20,000. The officers and principal stockholders of this company are Robt. A. Lewis of Tucson, President; W. P. Grigsby of Florence, Vice-president; K. H. McCann of Phoenix, Secretary;. Nearly two-thirds of the capital stock is already subscribed and the promoters anticipate no difficulty in placing the balance, and indeed there should be no difficulty in this as the proposition will be a money[-maker from the very start; this company is the first in the field and is officered by capable business men who are well acquainted with all the conditions necessary to be anticipated in overland travel on the desert. Then this is an age when time is worth money and no business man wants to poke along in the dust behind a team of horses when he can get over the ground with less discomfort in one-tenth the time. The Arizona Automobile Stage Company has ordered four cars and the first, a seven-passenger, 35 horsepower Elmore, will be on the ground in a few weeks. The first schedule, as planned now, will be between Casa Grande, Florence and Superior, with headquarters at this city. Eventually they expect to extend their territory to include regular trips from here to Mesa and Tempe, and on to Phoenix. Then from Florence to Tucson and to Globe, would also fill a long felt want, since at present one has to almost circumnavigate the Territory to reach either of these two points from this place by railroad. This is a first-class enterprise any way you look at it and will have our hearty sympathy and support.

Arizona Enterprise [Florence]: December 11, 1909.

[NOTE: the last “horse-drawn stagecoach” may have been the mail stage for Anderson, AZ, which ran until 1929, when the road was paved and the stagecoach was replaced with a Ford.]