 When the Copper Queen company built a new smelter in the flats east of Bisbee, the founders of the adjacent Mexican border town named Douglas, Arizona for him.On a quest for ever cheaper frieght rates for materials, along with outgoing copper and upset with those offered by the two present railroads (AT&SF and Southern Pacific), Douglas led in the construction of mine railroad branches from 1888.Originally the Arizona and South Eastern Railroad, the line went first to Fairbank and a connection with the AT&SF.