Arizona citizen., 1875-09-25
THE CITIZEN.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1875.
ARIZONA.
CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE.

troop among them, people at distance cannot truly comprehend. Either without the other, when the Indians are at peace, would be a great relief; and the absence of both would be best of all, speaking for the permanent wei fare of the people on basis of natural merits of the Territory,
 TEL EGRAPHs AND RAILROADS.
 No Territory is so well or cheaply supplied with telegraphic communica- tion- For a distance of two hundred mites and less, a ten-word message is 1 twenty-five cents, and each additional word, one cent; for over two hundred and less than four hundred miles, fifty cents, and two cents each additional word over four hundred and under six hundred, seventy-five and three cents. Thus, between important towns of Tue son, Florence, Phenix and Prescott a ten-word message is twenty-five cents, with one cent for as many more as we care to add. Yuma comes between two hundred and four hundred, and San Diego four hundred and six hun dred. The lines now extend from San Diego via Yuma, to Maricopa Wells :; thence one line goes to Phenix, Wick enburg, Prescott and Camp Verde, and another to Florence, Tucson and Camp Lowell. Workmen are now building the line to Camp Grant and Apache, and to Fort Bayard in New Mexico, and it is expected the connection will be made eastward with the Western Union line at Santa Fe, in this or early next year. For this system of tele- graph we are indebted to the United States, and when your city was astound- ed and shocked over the failure of the Bank of California and its exciting and sad incidents, so were the towns of Arizona.
 We have plenty of railroad talk, but no railroad except on paper. That we will have one soon no one now doubts. Tucson does not hope for the main overland line, which can hardly avoid the Gila valley as the Central could not well escape the Hum boldt; but the Gila valley Is almost a grade without labor, and its water is good and timber for wood convenient, and not distant for lumber for bridges or buildings. But Tucson expects to be connected with the overland by pro- jected road from Guaymas. If, this road is ever built, business and ease of construction will almost compel it to come right down the Santa Cruz val ley through Tucson. It may be laid down as correct proposition in this that if an Eastern Com pany controls the railway thrangL Ar lzona. eastern cities will get nearly all the trade of the Territory, and vice versa.
 AMOUNT OF BUSINESS. i
 The exact amount of trade each year in newly settled section is not easily ascertained. Early in this year the subject was canvassed i'll Tucson, and these figures given for 1874: E. N. Fish 6 Co.,, $35O, 900; Fully, Ochoa $ Co.,, $3OO,OOO; Lord & Williams, 1, $265, ,OOO; J. H. Archibald, $22O,OOO; l.. M. Jacobs & Co.,, $130, 1000; Zeck- endorf Bros, $10S, ,OO0; Wood Bros, S100,000; s. H. Drachman, $5O,OO0; Theo. Welisch, $2O,0OO; D. Velasco, S20,000-in all $1, 1,463, 900. These firms are doing larger buslness this year than in any former year and besides these establishments there are many smaller ones, which deal large Iy in products obtained in Sonora, which would swell the annual sales of merchandise in this town alone to over one and a half millions annual y. Tucson, by the way, has popu- .ation of about 5000, three-quarters of whom are Mexican people, and who are mainly farmers, stock-deal- ers and day laborers. Nearly the same extent of business must be trans acted ID Yavapai county, of which Prescott is the center. The bulk of 5he. grain and pork is produced in Pi- nal and Maricopa counties, of which Florence and Phenix are the business { ,enters.
 FINANCIAL.
 Financially the Territory and her owns and counties can boast of their , condition. The Territory has not ow- l d dollar for four years, has all the $ ime a surplus in her treasury, and , pays her bills cash down on presenta- 6