Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1876-06-03
Iaricopa County.
PnENIX. Nav "a. 1876

1HENlA- May a, 1910.
EDITOR CITIZEN A local paper i.
one of the luXuries, which Phenix doe.
not enjoy, though much we feel thu
need of it and hope ere long to have it
In the meantime we must trust to tho
generosity of our right and left bowers
The CITIZEN and Miner, to publish tC
the world what we may have to say o.
ourselves and our land Perhaps YOU
may have Il corner to spare us thi.
week; if SO and what | shall write
should seem to you OF general interest
we will feel gratitied to find 1t in print
The busy harvest time is here and the
CHATTER of machinery is heard in every
quarter; the yellow grain which now
waves in the breeze and murmurs q
soft sweet song of promise to the in
dustry that brought 1t into being, in q
few weeks more will he feeding the
burrs of our Is;lis- The weather for
some tiMc past has been cool and in
every way favorable to the making Of
a good crop and in consequence the
yield will be quite satisfactory, and
decidedly better than hal been anticL
pated by the most hopeful of our farm.
ers. The new mill of Messrs. Smith
" Slearns in this place is about com
pieted and will be ready TO help the
other two mills in the valley, in grind
ing the new crop. This mill occupies
the building formerly used by the own
ers as a store, it has the largest capaci-
ty of any mill III the valley, and is re-
garded by our citizens as very I'M
portant addition to our place, and
valley. 1t is another stone in the foun-
dauOn of permanently and selfrcliance,
the very essentials of success and pros
perity in community Arizona has
depended too long on California for
her bread. For years Its citizens have
stood upon rich acres of productive
soil, and watched for the coming of
freight teams from the distant Pacific,
laden with the flour that their own
hands could produce in the most salts
factory quantity and quality. But
few more enterprising public spirited
men like Messrs. Smith Il Slearns, and
many more industrious practical farm
ers to till the rich soil of this beautiful
productive valley, and raise grain for
them TO grind, and a new day will dawn
tor Arizona. How strange it is that so
many are content to live in California
and the old States, making only a mea-
ger sustcnance from year to year, on
the lands of others, and singing the
unsatisfactory song,
mo foot OF land do l possess
No cottage in the wilderness"
when so many rich acres of unclaimed
lands beckon them hither. ! have
read somewhere some lines winch seem
very pertinent in this connection. Here
they are:
Sunlight and breezeill t.ladsome flowers
Are DER the eartltn or ! wide,
And nature gave 'nboat.ts TO man
To all who on oh;alitotie
The soil lies illloGselS Gods grow rank,
We, idle the poe their .tands.
All! millions ofemm as Want acres
Aud millions o. want hands.
The land is the gifrD, slture to man
And labor Is nature command,
Yet millions OF hands want acres,
And millions of acres want hands.
Doubtless IN Arizom's glorious future
the coming of which We already discern,
the millions of hanis and millions Of
acres will meet and join issue greatly
TO the advantage of both.
Emigration Is cming into this val
ley very rapidly Dth from the north
and west. Many houses which Il few
months ago were empty are now Oc-
cupled by families and many ranches
have been recently heated IN different
parts of the vallg. There is still
valuable room for many more, and if
they will come to make homes with
US, we will extend warm welcome,
for an industrious population is what
we most need. ROLYAN.