Arizona citizen., 1876-12-30
Merchants of this city nossess creat.I

' Cther class While If na--OV--m miude E system is adopted twill not only eifes the ruin of the city, but eventually b - the cause of cur loss Tn bushes. Their first care must bs to aid q. farmers to get the very best pnce fo - their grain and produce and the stock raisers for their animals; ena6lin them to make @ far and living prom , they will not help them alone but als themselves. Bullion, gold, silver O copper should be bough. by them no at rates to make 9 profit on It, but a T such figures as will keep them even {,
 ship it. The miners once knowing .ha I they vii! rccelre the ighesi price fr their bullion here, will naturally comt here and sell it. All will be brourh
 here from hundreds of miles distance
 and even from the neighboring largl I bullion producing state of Sonora. venture 10 assert that by paying foi bullion even more than can be realized
 on it, would in the end be more profit
 able 10 the merchants.
 That our home freighters should be encouraged and preference given to them over any others, 1t is hardlyneed
 ful to remark; but they should have a
 benefit over others, even if they are to
 charge a little more, not having the ad-
 vantages of outsiders Any narrow imindedness in acting otherwise is iniu- rious to them and the city they develop.
 This spirit must also prevail in selling merchandise Let not merchants act as if they were obliged 10 make an in- dependent fortune in one year, not ! looking at all 10 the future, but try to make prices on merchandise such as will force the channels of commerce to this city as the principal market. Let a lively competition exist; laws of commerce find their level here as well as anywhere else; but for the building up of a city and making it our home, the most liberal way of viewing the matter must prevail, or failure must be the sure reward of acting otherwise
 Keep the stocks of merchandise large and completely assorted; introduce the best and newest improvements in all lines; sell them at fair profit, keep
 ing in view 10 remain always masters
 if competition springs up at other places and by selling at such rates as to make competition al other places a failure. Such course pursued will soon compensate merchants for all the
 work expended. Railroads will not leave a place isolated if aware of is commercial importance. and once Tue son is known as d commercIal center. it will be hard to deprive it of its su- premacy.
 Speaking about railroads, we should watch with utmost care the movements of them and be prepared in time to have our interests we'll attended to. The Guaymas and Tucson Railroad should receive our fullest attention, and we ought to see by all means, that the proper parties take hold of the matter and that its final point be surely made at Tucson. With this railroad built to our city, :he future of Tucson is a brilliant one, and we would surely command the situation, as it does not take much foresight to know that all other railroads would surely try to connect with this line. Of this matter l desire to speak more at length at some future time
 The large and rich mineral deposits iD the vicinity of Tucson should call out the utmost enterprise ofoUr citizens. and 10 them I wish I could influence capital and labor 10 be expended there OF. The mining claims within aradius of sixty miles of Tucson are Co be counted by the hundreds. but the only capital and labor bestowed upon them, with the exception of a very few, seems Co have been to put them on the records, and then ceasing and waiting perhaps for some miracle 10 be performed, which would return big bonanzas to the claimants. X good custom stamp mill in Tucson is not an enterprise which would be too costly for a few citizens of our city to invest in, and l cannot perceive how it could fail to be one of the very best paying enterprises, and only gross ignorance or wanton neglect could make it a failure. l. is needless to dwell on the many advan- tqccs such mill would bring to our city, as our citizens are all more or less acquainted with mining, and Co assert that out of the immense deposits of mineral in our vicinity none of them would be able to support the mill would be clearly preposterous. To the many old residents II is well known how, for The past few years, thousands of speci- meus have been brought in which as saved high up in the hundreds and thousands; hoe' in the pas, years miue~ in the neighborhood were worked, when labor, provisions and mining utensils were worth mere than double what they are at the preseu. time; and siIl ihe mines were semunerativc until, ,Lc workers were driven away by the