Douglas Daily Dispatch

Morning Express Service to Cananea Developed By Dispatch Ably Seconded By Business Men of the Mining City Promise Is Transportation Line Will Be Started Soon, Carrying Mail, Express and Passengers On Two-Hour Schedule —Financial Guarantee Furnished By Promoter and Business Men Makes Proposition Possible.

As the result of a conference yesterday in which representatives of Cananea, Naco and Agua Prieta met with the general manager of The Dispatch and some invited business men of Douglas. The Dispatch is able to announce this morning that it expects to be able to announce a regular mail, express and passenger service between Agua Prieta and Cananea within the next few days. Negotiations which The Dispatch has been energetically pushing for several months has to bring about the service seem to be certain of early realization. The necessary guarantees of financial return to the operating company have been provided with the exception of a small and as soon as that has been pledged, the service will be started.

The conference yesterday was participated in by Alfonso Rivera, postmaster at Cananea; H. P. Pena, postmaster at Naco and C. E. Moreno, secretary of the chamber of commerce of Cananea, and F. L. Mendoza, representing Agua Prieta. The Dispatch was represented by James Logie, general manager, and invited to be present were John B. Crowell, cashier of the Bank of Douglas. Rex Rice of Rice and company, Postmaster E. J. Huxtable and A. G. Crouch, president of the chamber of commerce. The conference was around the lunch table at the Club Sociale where the men were the guests of The Dispatch.

The plan of the proposed service is to have a stage leave Agua Prieta every morning at 7 for the inspector's station just beyond the intersection of the Agua Prieta and the Cananea-Naco highway where it will be met by a stage coming from Cananea with its mail and freight and passengers. There the stages would exchange loads, each returning to its starting point. The arrangement would make it possible to get the mail that was deposited in the Douglas post office for Cananea people to reach them through their post office at 9 the following morning. The mail from Cananea would be brought to the Douglas post office in time to be dispatched on the eastbound airmail plane if it carried airmail postage and it would be here for the first afternoon service east if it were ordinary mail.

The mail service it would thus open to Cananea would be almost as good as Douglas itself enjoys as air-mail posted there the previous evening would be on the next morning's plane east. It would get the latest airmail into Cananea as it would have the afternoon plane's mail there by 9 the following morning.

But mail service is not the only advantage of the new service. It will mean prompter service for the merchants in that city of any goods they may secure either from local distributors or have sent to them by way of Douglas as the stage will carry express packages as well as mail and passengers. It will be a two-hour service between the two cities and the roads now are and will continue to be kept in good condition.

This service will enable The Dispatch to provide the Cananea people with an excellent daily news-paper service as it will put The Dispatch there at the middle of the forenoon with regularity and certainty. The Dispatch, through its news coverage afforded by the Associated Press and other news gathering agencies and special writers will keep the people in touch with the world, up to date, just as the airmail will keep them in quick communication with their friends everywhere on the continent.

It must not be considered immodest for The Dispatch to tell something of the effort that this proposed plan has required. It was the hope some months ago that its personal effort would provide a daily news service for Cananea without other sources of income for the transportation, and to that end a new car was purchased and served the city with the morning paper for several months. Then the depression came that brought shorter pay-rolls and the support, frankly, did not warrant that plan. Determined, however, to keep contact with the splendid mining city. The Dispatch kept working upon the subject until the present arrangement, through the splendid co-operation of the Cananea business men and officials, the Agua Prieta forces and the Naco forces, was finally developed.

The present plan requires a substantial guarantee in financial support and The Dispatch has made what it believes and what others have declared to be a substantial share of that guarantee. The business interests of Cananea have made what appears to be a good share for them.

This service is one that will stimulate a fellowship and friendly relation between people of Cananea and local merchants and tradesmen that it is believed will bring a substantial share of the business that Cananea people do away from home into the city of Douglas. The business men of Douglas who sat in the conference yesterday were heartily in favor of the plan and declared their belief that it was worthy of support. If it gets that support it will become a reality quite soon.