The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1876-11-25
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAIL.
ROAD!
The Night has Passed and the Day
DaWneth
Grant OF Lands by the Town of W.
ma.


Phineas Banning, of Wilmington,
CAL, arrived in Yuma by steam
er from Ehrenberg, he having
come out to that point from the
end of the Southern Pacific Rail
road. The unexpected appear
ance of the General among US was
hailed with delight, and he was
met by a host of warm hearted
friends who know him in other
days and who gladly welcomed
him to Yuma, feeling and know
ing that he did not make the jour
ney for nothing. General Bann-
ing is well known as one of the
must energetic, enterprising and
liberal business mon in California,
and is at the same time a Who'll
souled gentleman, who in large
body carries q heart that fills it.
The General did not pretend that
he was in any way acting as agent
for the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company, but with his usual bust
ness sagacity he was looking out
for his own enterprise and intends
to do business where the said rail-
road crosses the Colorado river
In the very short time that he
was here, CARRYING on Sunday and
departing on Monday,) he accom-
plished all he desired.
He met our Mayor and Council
in session, who passed an Ordin-
ance granting to the Southern Pa
cific Railroad Company one hun
dIed acres of land and the right
Of way through the town, on the
conditions expressed in the said
ordinance, which we publish in
another column. Gen. Banning
expressed to US his qualification,
and said that he considered the
grant and conditions liberal. and
that he believed they would be
satisfactory to the Company. We
approve of the action of our corpo-
rate authorities in this matter and
believe it will be heartily endors-
ed by the people.
The people of Yuma feel very
friendly toward the Southern Pa
cific, because it is to that Company
that we look for the blessings OF
railroad facilities. They have al
ways proved themselves able to
accomplish whatever they under
take and they have never vio!at-
ed their promises. Our people are
not antagoniStic to the Texas and
Pacific road, but would he glad TO
see it built. But there have been
SO many unfulfiIled promises, so
much backing and filing" so
many years wasted and so little
accomplished, that faith has be-
come badly shaken, and we are in
that condition of "hope deferred,
that maketh the heart sick" Then
our business and social intercourse
Is particularly and directly with
San Francisco, and this can be
better facilitated and promoted by
the Southern Pacific than by any
other contemplated road. This
road is calculated in every aspect
to do US more good than any other
road can. The gentlemen who
compose the South err Pacific Rail
road Company are head and shout
ders ahead of any other railroad
builders in the world.
We have often wished that bla-
tant political scavangers and dirty
pot house politicians of both part
les, would let railroads and all
things pertaining to public impro-
vements severely alone. Let hon
est unprejudiced men of all part
les look at the blessings that the
Southern Pacific Railroad Com.
pany has conferred upon the coun-
try and upon humanity, and see
lift has not been benefcent ms
titution. 1t has leveled down tbe
barriers that separated and isolat-
ed settlements and peoples. Ii
&c e}Gled up to the blessings OF