Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1876-04-22
No Roads I'm Arizona.

| All dnAlOus inquirer, one among ten
thousand, writes US from the States pro
pounding whole cyclOpedia of ques-
tiOns about Arizona, its inhabitants
and prospects. Our stock of lnfOrma-
ton generally is very small, and we
don't know much anyhow, and are not
sure of what we do know, and would
rather not diyulge it; but there is one
question which he asks that we feel
able to answer, and we scarcely think
1t would be right to abstain from an
swering, however bad state of affairs
in Arizona the answer may disclose
The correspondent unfeelingly asks,
" Is there any roads in Arizona The
public of Arizona will recognize at a
glance the cruel force and frightful
consequences of this question, and, if
that public were fOrewarned, they would
exert themselves, as did never interested
counsel with client, to keep us from
ruthfully answering that straight, cold
blooded inquiry. But we stand alone
and must answer. There are no roads
in Arizona! Not one! The bright sun
rises and his rays CLINT and glisten upon
and kiss the mountain tops, and the
light breaks and pOurs its blissful flood
down creyice and crag and fastness,
and upon the mesa and lowland and
valley iii Arizona, but it don't do anyl
ofthis with any road in Arizona. There
are no roads IN Arizonai The SUM
trails his banners down the west, and
the light follows from its warm dallianceI
with meadow and upland and hillside,
but It's embraces have known no roads
because there are no roads in Arizona.
We have tried to keep this from the
knowledge Of the outside world butt
this leading question has brought to !
nought all our futile endeavors, andl
now that we are exposed our only re-
sort Is to brave the thing out and
even boast in our cross. We haven't
got an inch of road, turnpike, cross
road, plankroad, railroad, cow-path,
trail, back-alley or anything, in Arizona,
but what are you going to do about it /?
Can you beat it in any of the great
States of the Union, in this centennial
year? Why, look at the thing in all its
grandeur. Arizona, yes, Arizona, with
its millions of people, its great mines
Just piling out the bullion, its manu-
lectures all ready to be inaugurated,
It's steamboats, breaking its river-waters
into glad smiles, its mercantile houses
heavily freighted with goods, and form
ing combinations to keep the prices up,
its beautiful women OF Spanish and
distraction, its monte
games and chuck luck and freeze-out,
It's bloody Apaches and roast chicken,
It's freight trains and sIx-shoOting buck
nule-whackers, and not an inch of road
anywhere this side of the lines between
Is and everywhere else outside of Arr
iona. No sir, Mr.. Correspondent, you
needn't be afraid. It's all right, pack
up your carpetbag. Put in your billed
ihirt" your ready-reckOner, your guide
o the west, your bible and your medi-
lated paper, and come right on. Bless
iour heart there are no roads, and in
he nature of things can'tbe any roads
n Arizona. Don't be backward. En-
er into the promised land from any
direction, and come across lots and
ettle down in Tucson and start an OPP
position newspaper and live by black
to their hearts content, every
me Of the local howlers at THE CITI-
I'm. /,