Tom Bullock was a gregarious, smooth-talking promoter. He'd been a bartender Prescott's Whiskey Row before heading to New York where he made a fortune building street railways. Ever since the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad (the Santa Fe Railroad) transcontinental railroad crossed northern Arizona in 1883 the company had wanted to build a branch line south to the rich copper mines of Jerome. With the advent of the age of electricity, copper was in great demand and the mountains of Arizona had an a
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